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Seattle police had a chance to prove abolitionists wrong. They didn’t.
The department's inability to change over the past year has shown that its problems are hardwired into policing, and reform is not working.
Shaun Scott
Shaun Scott, the policy & field campaign manager for the Statewide Poverty Action Network, is a Seattle-based writer, organizer, and filmmaker. A member of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of
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