Source: NYT > U.S.
Article note: This was the inevitable outcome.
That kind of idealistic caught-up-in-outrage sweeping gesture _never_ works, because creating sane policy requires a lot of work and consideration. Dismantling institutions is hard but valuable work, and always comes with the risk that you create opportunities for something worse to take root.
When a majority of City Council members promised to “end policing as we know it” after George Floyd’s killing, they became a case study in how idealistic calls for structural change can falter.
