Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Defund the police? Be careful what you wish for.


When There Are No Police, Most Crimes Will Carry the Death Penalty

I fear vigilantism and “lynch law” are about to make a comeback, because in the absence of the even-handed, objective rule of law, there’s little alternative.

Peter is right. The work I have been doing lately has shown me that Peter’s words are right on the money, but he is missing something: People will enjoy lynching too much and will do anything to
keep it.
Lynching today is but a nasty historical fact that is taught is school. What it is not taught is what took to curb that very well established custom and how long it took to make it stick.  This is from the famous child murder  of Mary Phagan in 1915:

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