Abolish the police? Defund them? No, fix them

Published August 10, 2020 4:00am ET



How brave the woke are, until the consequences of their bold actions rebound upon them.

We are not referring to those courageous souls now facing charges for their roles in the violence, assaults, arsons, and riots going on in various cities, supposedly in the name of racial justice. Rather, we refer to city leaders in Minneapolis, who just invented some clever excuses to keep off the November ballot a ludicrous measure that would have abolished their police force.

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