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Police reform efforts in a lot of the country will have to look less like a community engagement process and more like when a country coming out of a military dictatorship reasserts civilian control of the military.
An increasingly large problem is that police leadership in blue cities - formal and especially informal - is made up of far-right conservative ideologues who would rather sabotage their own mission than do their jobs under liberal masters https://twitter.com/goldberg_dan/status/1362156969516220416
Dermot Shea's constrained jubiliation at the news of stabbings on the New York City subways being a fairly salient recent example. Instead of standing behind elected leadership or the people of the city, he used it to lobby for more cops to be hired https://twitter.com/courtneycgross/status/1361655449297301505
Because at the higher levels of many of these police departments and cop unions, the loyalty is to other cops or more broadly, to the minority of conservative white ethnics cops recruit their leadership from and give the best department jobs to, not to the city or its inhabitants
Hahahaha no. they'll eat Yang's lunch, absolutely guaranteed https://twitter.com/TheWolfe40/status/1362163927082270721
The more I hear about Garcia, the more I like her https://twitter.com/aceckhouse/status/1362165374490316801
