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Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States.
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those dollars could be better spent actually providing the kind of meaningful services to Atlantans that prevents “crime” from happening in the first place.
What impact might this building have if utilized instead for shelter, healthcare, food access, and community programming in place of punishment?
Well written op-ed on the cruelty and ineffectiveness of incarcerating poverty in Atlanta.
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.
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