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Finished No More Police: A Case for Abolition.
A great introduction to the ideas behind and goals for police and prison abolition. No matter your stance on abolition, this book provides a helpful context for understanding.
Started No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie.
From the article:
Police “have never successfully solved crimes with any regularity, as arrest and clearance rates are consistently low throughout history,” and police have never solved even a bare majority of serious crimes, University of Utah college of law professor Shima Baradaran Baughman wrote in another 2021 law review article, including murder, rape, burglary and robbery.
Existing research also affirms the findings in the recent report on police work in California.
Law “enforcement is a relatively small part of what police do every day,” Barry Friedman, a law professor at the New York University School of Law wrote in a 2021 law review article.
Studies have shown that the average police officer spent about one hour per week responding to crimes in progress, Friedman wrote.
#acab
My latest:
SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that police have no legal duty to protect us—so why do we keep throwing money at an org with no duty to keep us safe? And perhaps most importantly, how do we *actually* ensure public safety?
Read sub & share: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/how-many-people-realize-police-have
Sometimes they do something to you, Tommy. They hurt you. And you get mad. And then you get mean. And they hurt you again. And you get meaner, and meaner till you ain’t no boy or no man any more, but just a walking chunk a mean-mad. Did they hurt you like that, Tommy?
Ma Joad on the injustice of prisons, The Grapes of Wrath