Tangible and intangible exports from the United States have long improved the lives of others around the world. Advances from our doctors and scientists have saved millions of lives, manufacturing innovations have taught other countries how to grow, and when tyranny threatened the world in the twentieth century, the U.S. sent its best and brightest to defeat evil during World Wars I and II. But America now exports some of its worst and most chaotic impulses to the rest of the unsuspecting world—especially on criminal-justice issues.
England recently announced that it was forming a panel to scrutinize police on racial-equity issues. The leader of the panel, criminal-defense lawyer Abimbola Johnson, has said that her “ultimate aim” is to end funding for the police. She thinks that crime should be “reclassified until you no longer need to fund a police force.”
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