thank you, even with my misspelling...

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Here, I lay out the basic case for doing so and give some evidence that it might work.

I know, given the shock of what is going on in Minnesota and elsewhere, might make people wonder what I can possibly be thinking with such a statement, but I think the events make it even more clear: Republicans have to be brought back to supporting liberalism (small l), or we have no path forward.

It's been a long time, but the biggest blowback I ever got in the discipline was for publicly saying we probably shouldn't be using MTurk for data...

Yep, police dress in high visibility in lots of other countries (and some departments in the US) and seem to be just fine. (And, no the added presence of firearms in this country does not justify it).

yea, and compared to now, they were practically equipped with sling-shots.

At some point, we need a major cultural shift, started by legal intervention, in the militarization of the police. Even putting aside the masks, this stuff is needless and odious to democracy.