Exclusionary suburbs are a bad model for public safety

Diverse communities with public spaces need policing

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this paragraph from an article on police reform that Perry Bacon published back in late January, because while I don’t agree with it, I think it does an excellent job of getting to the crux of the issue:

That these problems are so widespread is why activists in 2020 started loudly calling for defunding or even …