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Best of: Imagine a future with no police

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Way to Improve Policing?

"We still have about 15,000 homicides every year in the United States," he says. "What we're continuing to pay police a billion ... could actually be shifted towards reducing inequality that police are then sent to go and manage" The Supreme Court grants police with the power to make violent calls and split-second decisions, she argues. But it doesn't necessarily take into account that cops don't have time to consider other consequences of their actions when they use force on someone, Lerman writes.

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