Why the Police Are WAY Beyond Reform

Prof. Alex S. Vitale, author of “The End of Policing,” joins Francesca for a discussion about the main focus of his scholarly pursuits as a sociologist and writer: How do we approach and begin to solve the omnipresent issue of policing malfeasance in the U.S.? The blurb on Vitale’s website states: “The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last forty years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”

This denotes a critical chasm between what some people think they’re talking about when they talk about the police and what other people talk about when they talk about the police. Policing in the U.S. isn’t what it was intended to be in some ways, and in some ways — for example, when it comes to maintaining a racial hierarchy — it very much is.

For these reasons and many, many more, Prof. Vitale thinks that policing is, at this point, utterly irredeemable and that the whole system is in desperate need of complete abolition and a radical systemic reimagining.

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