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   Ashton Pittman (ashton@journa.host)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 08:26:11 JST Ashton Pittman

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   Are the police people who "enforce the law," or are they "the law" itself? The way southerners so often speak, it's the latter.

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     Ashton Pittman (ashton@journa.host)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 08:26:12 JST Ashton Pittman

     Honestly, the fact that southerners so comfortably use "the law" to mean "the police" really speaks to something we intuitively understand about American justice.

     Nicholas Sarwark repeated this.