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“In addition to the authoritarian role that U.S. police play by selectively enforcing rules made by those with power in an unequal society, they also have a long history of both overtly supporting and actively being infiltrated by the far right.”

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“In my years as a civil rights lawyer, I have seen virtually all the same cycle in city after city: Politicians respond to the fallout from an incident of police violence by pledging various "reforms" that are either meaningless or things the police had been asking for anyway. These pledges are followed by increases in police budgets. Overall police violence grows, and the cycle repeats.”

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“Over the years, numerous local officials have told me they cannot support reducing police budgets because they are terrified of retaliation by police, including of cops raiding their homes or stopping and harassing their loved ones. Such intimidation is a pervasive fact of daily life for local progressive politicians--and even of numerous judges who have confided in me about their fear of retaliation against their families by police.”

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“For decades, studies have found that families of police officers experience domestic violence at astronomical rates: between 24 and 40 percent of all families with a police officer report criminal domestic violence. That is a rate of domestic violence up to 400 percent of that of the general population.”

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