Published in Sep 2017

Police Brutality: No End Under Capitalism - Dr. Morgan

Other reforms that do not work: Community police review boards, community policing, police body cameras, and cop training.

More diversity is a familiar cry among black politicians and some of our misguided sisters and brothers. Diversity fails to stem police misconduct. A mainstream Public Administrative Review study author said, “What we find is evidence that [having] more black police officers probably doesn’t offer a direct solution to this problem.” Check your locale.

Too many times, police misconduct gets confused with fighting crime. Yes, neighborhood folks do not want to get shot, robbed, mugged, or burglarized. The capitalist system maintains a dog eat dog mentality. The daily grind to survive creates an inhumanity towards one another. It provides senseless murders and other crimes in Black marginalized neighborhoods. More cops are not the answer.

The cops do policing that protects and serves the interests of the propertied owners and their profits. Job one is to defend the rule of capital. Make no doubt who the “to protect and to serve” on the shield is aimed.

Do we give up and wait for the revolution? No. You might quell police misconduct in the short run. Under capitalism do not hold your breath for the long haul.

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By Dr. Morgan