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Hear Me Out: Policing Can’t Be Reformed And Must Be Abolished

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The Logic of the Thin Blue Line

I think you will ask if you ask a lot of cops right and again not people that I will often agree with on much of anything. A lot of cops would agree that they're being put on to the streets to deal with problems that were not created by the police or broader social problems, he says. He adds: "This becomes very quickly the logic of the sort of thin blue line" But it doesn't mean for the most part they're going to treat those communities with the respect and dignity that they deserve, he argues.

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