The Intolerable Tensions Between American Cities and their Police Forces

The gap between the liberal mayors who run many big cities and the officers who help police them is especially pronounced in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

I lived in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests in April, 2015. My apartment was in a brownstone next to a small park in a pretty neighborhood called Bolton Hill, which sits on the border between downtown and the West Baltimore neighborhoods where the upheaval was centered. A central image of those riots was a burning CVS at Pennsylvania and North Avenues; that store was about ten blocks from my house...