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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occ
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Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the
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