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Today, Explained

What “abolish the police” means

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

On yesterday's show, we talked about police unions and about how much power they wield

0:16.3

and how that power has led to contracts that make it just about impossible to do much

0:21.6

about police misconduct.

0:23.3

It makes it next to impossible to even know how much misconduct a given officer has been

0:28.6

accused of in a lot of cases and it makes it really hard to challenge how much money

0:33.4

police departments get and they get a lot.

0:36.7

But throughout these protests, we're seeing people call for an ultimate fix to this.

0:41.2

One we didn't talk about on yesterday's show.

0:43.6

One, a lot of people would find totally radical.

0:48.1

Abolish the police.

0:49.9

Now don't stop listening and go scroll and find Joe Rogan just yet.

0:54.7

If you're abolish the police, like, whom I'm going to call when someone's chasing me

0:58.8

down the street trying to murder me, consider Philip McHarris.

1:03.0

When I was young, there was one incident when I was 17.

1:09.7

It was in Norton, Jersey and there was a credible target on me with a gang that was very well-known

1:17.5

and notorious.

1:19.0

I obviously called while running from almost being jumped and my friend said, what did you

1:25.3

do?

1:26.3

And I was like, what do you mean?

1:27.3

He said, there's a target on your head.

1:29.5

Someone that I knew that was a part of the gang the next day who I was friends with told

1:32.7

me that it was a green light on me in that area.

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