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Abolition, not reform, is the answer to the problem of police brutality

By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor The recent prominence gained by the push to “abolish/defund the police” has mainstream politicians like Trudeau scrambling to turn these movements into a conversation about police reform. Not only does the focus on reform miss the mark of what the protesters are calling for, it is also ineffectual in preventing police brutality. Police abolition sounds extreme, but nothing less will work to fix a broken policing system. So what’s the difference between police reform and abolition? Police reform is based on the idea that the police play a fundamentally beneficial role in society, in…

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