You Can’t Vote Out the Police

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Voting the right officials into office is crucial, but it's also insufficient to address the disorderly behavior of the police. zakcheneyrice writes

Officers arresting a protester. Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images Despite their open disputation, Democrats and Republicans agree on at least one aspect of the unrest that’s roiled the summer: The party in charge matters for maintaining public order. But for all their blame-laying, it’s become clear that neither side has a compelling answer to a thornier dilemma: the disorderly behavior of the police.

Often unmentioned in such debates are the migration patterns that helped make these dynamics possible in the first place. The wholesale absconding of millions of white residents from major cities during the mid- to late-20th century, in many cases, left behind a scorched-earth trail of disinvestment and disadvantage.

It’s also a misplaced target. For all the disruption caused by nonviolent dissent and destruction by rioting, both are fundamentally responsive — effects of unaccountable police violence, first and foremost, and a range of failures of government in addition. The police are in revolt, meanwhile.

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