We must abolish the police to create a more equal society! 🏴 🖤
'Enough is enough — A new book entitled Abolishing the Police (An Illustrated Introduction) asks what dismantling the police would actually look like. Below, its editor Koshka Duff and contributor Connor Woodman interrogate our current institution's role in upholding a profoundly unequal and crisis-ridden social order....'
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'Policing, in this broader sense, includes the whole criminal punishment system of courts, prisons, juvenile detention facilities, and electronic tagging. It includes the mechanisms of border enforcement such as detention centres, walls and barbed wire fences, and chartered deportation flights.
It creeps into the most intimate aspects of life in the form of mass and targeted surveillance, and it spreads beyond state boundaries in the form of colonial and neo-colonial ‘counter-insurgency’ operations, the ‘pacification’ of unruly populations, and the ‘extraordinary rendition’ of terror suspects.
While the forms of policing are various, they all make the same claim: we are here to keep the peace; you need us to keep you safe....'
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We must abolish the police to create a more equal society
A new illustrated book edited by Koshka Duff interrogates the police's role in constructing today’s profoundly unequal, crisis-ridden society.Huck
