The harmful persistence of police brutality suggests that no amount of community policing, civilian review boards (even with extensive oversight), presidential commissions on policing, or the like has much of a chance to succeed. Police unions across the nation have accumulated enormous power and continually undermine efforts to rein in the abuse of authority by police. So it seems worth a try to approach the abolition of policing with a mind to rearrange internal relations between police departments and other agencies that address needs -- especially mental health -- presently gathered under the rubric of policing.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Long Time Coming, p. 93
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