If the "law and order" GOP falls, may Bill of Rights Republicans rise. It's time for the GOP to embrace Amendments 4 through 8 with as much fervor as they embrace the First and Second Amendments. My newsletter (🔒) /1: frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/police-refor…
What should Bill of Rights Republicans embrace? Ending qualified immunity /2: 
Reform civil asset forfeiture to snuff out policing for profit /3:
Policing for profit encompasses more than just civil asset forfeiture -- treating cops as revenue generators increases friction with the population and digs poor Americans deeper into poverty /4:
Dramatically scale back no-knock raids /5:
Reform cash bail. There is no good reason for almost 500,000 to sit in jail without being convicted of a crime /6:
If this sounds libertarian, well it is! Civil libertarian anyway. But the practices above undermine due process, facilitate unreasonable searches and seizures, and promulgate excessive fines. The Bill of Rights is an indispensable part of our social compact. Enforce it. /end
