4th of July: ‘’American politicians and police departments are genuinely shocked by demands to defund and abolish. They’ve never heard it before'
‘’It was only in the US, in the Americas and Caribbean, where slavery was predicated on your skin colour. We have not been able to get from under that and what is being done now is in the United States is it is being unmasked. We are being forced to have this conversation,’’ Davis toldDavis, a police reform advocate, maintains that bias against black people persists because of a culture of impunity that puts police departments, and police unions, in conflict with the public.
Indeed, the need for civilian oversight of armed agents of the state, was a key priority for the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Now the descendants of people held as slaves, some by the signers of the Declaration themselves, are marching and agitating to end impunity in policing. They are engaged in the grandest of American traditions and are far from being traitors to law and order.
Dismantling that inhumane management remains the continuing task of the American revolution, one that did not end with the surrender of the British and the abolition of the Crown’s authority in the colonies. Indeed, at the time, the very notion of ending colonial rule seemed like a terrible, treasonous idea.
‘’It means taking budget and legal authority away from the police and shifting it to other arms of government. Police should not be the ones dealing with homelessness, mental illness, drug use, poverty, sex work, school discipline. A lot of police readily admit this but resent having their budgets and authority reduced. Too bad! It’s the only way.
But history also provides a dire warning about the consequences of failure. Frederick Douglass, a man whoslavery in Baltimore, Maryland in 1838 to become a titan of the movement to abolish slavery, told a mostly white audience in Rochester, New York on July 4, 1852, a decade before the outlawing of chattel slavery, what Independence Day meant then to people enduring the torment of the ‘’peculiar institution,’’ as it was then sometimes called.
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