They call themselves the police.

A World Without Police
How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

Extract from final chapter
Conclusion: Democracy or the Police?

"Picture this: there’s an armed gang roaming the streets, harassing the population, brutalizing the innocent, and taking more than a thousand lives each year—three Americans dead every day. No one would seriously propose reforming such a force. We wouldn’t tolerate it—we would attack and dismantle it. This seems obvious enough, but we aren’t talking about just any street gang, about the Bloods, Crips, or MS-13. We’re talking about what Tupac Shakur once deemed “the biggest gang in America.”

To call the police a gang is not hyperbole. As one recent headline put it, “Police killed more people in 2019 than Bloods, Crips combined.”1 It isn’t just about the killing, either. When the police kill, maim, and brutalize, they refuse all accountability. We have seen how police and their not-so-benevolent associations organize, bargain, and lobby for absolute impunity and resist any attempts at civilian oversight. Where negotiation and lobbying aren’t enough, they throw very public temper tantrums, taking to the literal bully pulpit of right-wing media or engaging in “blue flu” sick-out campaigns. And where all this fails or local elected officials are not sufficiently obedient, police and their unions don’t hesitate to buck civilian authorities entirely, acting outside and against, rather than under the control of, democratic oversight."

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