What If There Were No Police?
Moving past the failed institution of “the police”

By Kimberly Wilder; August 14th, 2012 – Dissident Voice
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/08/what-if-there-were-no-police/

Americans have a belief that the police are helping to keep people safe and helping to limit or stop crime.

Though, in recent decades, there have been too many mistakes, where police have harmed innocent people. And many times, the police have even killed innocent and/or unarmed people.

Some examples of serious police failures include: the 2011 shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain, an unarmed, 68-year-old veteran, killed by police in White Plains, who had been called to his home

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