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You've clearly not heard a conservative or a libertarian rail about no-knocks, mandatory minimum sentencing, drug laws, or civil asset forfeiture. Large elemen
by crocodiletears 6y ago
You've clearly not heard a conservative or a libertarian rail about no-knocks, mandatory minimum sentencing, drug laws, or civil asset forfeiture.
Large elements of the right often refuse to accept systemic racism, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its own critiques against policing that make the abstract statement 'I support police reform' valid for them.
Outside the left and the far right, although moderate liberals acknowledge the existence of systemic biases in policing, I've heard proposals ranging from 'remove qualified immunity', to 'more training', to 'expand social services', but typically with the caveat that 'my poufs Dept is fine', or 'I don't want social workers to replace any of the police, I just want them in addition to the police'. There's usually a big fat asterisk alongside the suggestion that requires a positive sum outcome where nothing really changes in their lives, but everything is abstractly better.