Republicans have little use for state and local autonomy when it contradicts their dogmas.
Rationales for these centralizing Republican policy measures vary from case to case and place to place. But the basic idea is that urban Democrats — and particularly Black and brown urban Democrats — cannot be trusted with decisions to determine or enforce penalties for criminal offenses.
It doesn’t seem to matter that, generally speaking, the local prosecutors Republican state officials are trying to remove or usurp have been democratically elected or that the police officers deemed insufficiently repressive reported to democratically elected mayors or county commissions. And, for that matter, as BrownsteinThe growing efforts by red states to seize authority over law enforcement in blue cities is drawing energy from the convergence of two powerful trends.
One is the increased tendency of red states to override the decisions of those blue metros on a wide array of issues — on everything from minimum wage and family leave laws to environmental regulations, mask requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, and even recycling policies for plastic bags.
So decentralization only works for Republicans when it works for the interests they represent — including businesses chafing under local regulations and conservative suburbanites upset about alleged crime spikes in the cities near them.
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