The End of Policing: Alex Vitale on How Cops & Their Unions Cover Up Inequality, Exploitation

Professor Alex Vitale argues the answer to police violence is not reform." It's defunding. The author of The End of Policing" says the movement to defund the police is part of a long story about the use of police and prisons to manage problems of inequality and exploitation." He asks, Why are we using police to paper over problems of economic exploitation?" He also discusses the role of police unions. They become, in many cities, the locus, the institutional hub, for a whole set of right-wing 'thin blue line' politics that believe that policing is not only effective but it's the most desirable way to solve our problems. And embedded in this is a deep racism that says that certain populations can only be managed through constant threats of coercion."