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Police Must Answer to the Community
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
15 Jun 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Police Must Answer to the Community

The demand for community control of police ushers in a new stage of struggle, in which “young people are imagining a world where these tremendous institutions of imperialism and the police state are gone,’ said Max Rameau, an activist with Pan African Community Action (PACA), in Washington, DC. The PACA proposal would oversee police hiring, firing and operations by a board chosen from communities at random, like jurors.

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