THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ABOLISHING THE POLICE: New York Legislature Repeals Notorious Police Secrecy Law. New York was a national outlier in hiding police misconduct records. The state legislature finally repealed the law responsible for it.

On the other hand, all the over-the-top public hate directed at the police will probably make them worse. Good people will quit for jobs where they take less grief, and inevitably they will be replaced with people who don’t mind the hate, or who can’t get another job. If good people don’t want the job, standards will fall.