🚨 UVA Law Pays Anne Coughlin $375,700 to Flinch at “Police” and Hype Abolitionists as “The More the Merrier”
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) December 14, 2025
UVA Law professor Anne Coughlin made $375,700 in 2024. Watch how she treats the word “police” like it’s radioactive:
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UVA Law Pays Anne Coughlin $375,700 to Flinch at “Police” and Hype Abolitionists as “The More the Merrier”
UVA Law professor Anne Coughlin made $375,700 in 2024. Watch how she treats the word “police” like it’s radioactive:
“I don’t wanna use the word police… some of you may be abolitionists… that’s fine, the more the merrier.”
Then she turns a law school classroom into a policy shop:
“You can insist that you get police out of traffic enforcement.”
“You are going to convince your legislators, your city councils, your police that they should cut this out. They should no longer have police in traffic enforcement.”
And she frames freedom as “being protected against the police.”
Then she tells on herself: “I’m assuming everyone violates the traffic code all the time because I do,” and says the police tell her she’s “not a threat,” which “kind of upsets” her because she wants “to be scary.”
Then comes the racial generalization:
“My students of color say to me, ‘You violate the traffic laws all the time because you’re a white woman.’”
This is not training lawyers. It’s training activists. A law school professor’s job is to teach students how to argue both sides, not hand them a preloaded ideology and call it “education.”
And yes, there’s another side she skips. Traffic enforcement is one of the main ways serious crime gets caught in real time: DUI, stolen vehicles, illegal guns, warrants, missing persons, and suspects. Stops and crashes can turn volatile fast, and civilian “ticketing” units don’t have the authority or capacity to detain, investigate, arrest, and control chaotic scenes end-to-end.
Reform is fair game, but “no police in traffic enforcement” ignores deterrence, escalation, and the evidentiary work that actually delivers public safety and justice.
And notice the move: “the court has said,” then “Justice Thomas has indicated,” so one justice’s views get treated as the Supreme Court.
If UVA Law wants to be an activist academy, say so. If it wants to be a law school, start acting like one.
Next: the UVA professor targeted by colleagues for taking a Supreme Court case that went 9–0.
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