Abolition

• Reposted:

  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

• Always Do The Right Thing

  We choose a false and cowardly pacifism that demands a nonviolence that does not threaten us, while embracing a violence that makes us feel safe.

  Oh wow this essay is good.

  h/t https://mastodon.online/@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social

• Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future

  If you're keeping score, you've realized that this is a system where prisoners and their families have to pay for calls, "in-person" visits, handwritten letters, and email.

• Reposted:

  "Safety is a rhetorical weapon wielded to make people feel less safe. We are in an endless cycle of fear, which generates an authoritarian reaction, generating more fear and more authoritarian reaction. How do we break free?"

  "We don’t know what our nation without police would look like. But we know that our society with police is violent, racist, precarious, unequal, and unfree."

  ~ Mariame Kaba

  https://thebaffler.com/latest/illusions-of-safety-kaba

  #Police #Abolition #MariameKaba