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July 29, 2020 – Christian Watson …… In the process of protecting individual rights, which are an objective value, police shouldn’t be tasked with performing a subjective calculus about possible underlying biases.
July 21, 2020 – Jeff Deist …… Dear Portlandia progressives: a federal government big enough to take care of you is a federal government big enough to “take care of you.”
July 6, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Federal judges invented the notion of “qualified immunity” to protect police from lawsuits. So now Colorado has done an end run around the federal courts and removed qualified immunity as a defense.
June 22, 2020 – Tate Fegley …… Some police officers are able to easily get rehired by law enforcement agencies even though they were forced out of other departments for misconduct. That’s a problem.
June 18, 2020 – Caroline Breashears …… Practical guidance from the Scottish economist’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
June 15, 2020 – William L. Anderson …… The Left believes that we need the state to force people to act in line with “social justice.” This means that somebody must force compliance with state edicts, even if those people aren’t called “police.”
June 13, 2020 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… If Americans want to diminish racial bigotry in police departments across the country, the best way to start is by legalizing drugs, all of them. That would bring an end to the legal opportunity that bigoted cops have in the enforcement of drug laws against blacks.
June 11, 2020 – Lee Friday …… A moral injustice is a legal injustice, period.
June 10, 2020 – Chris Calton …… We already employ a wide variety of nonpolice crime deterrent strategies, from private gun ownership to security cameras to private security. Meanwhile, in spite of the proliferation of police and police departments, crime, rioting, and looting endure.
June 6, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… End immunity. End police unions. End the drug war.