Status Updates From The End of Policing

Love this book so far. Quote: "We are witnessing the criminalization of mental illness with police on its frontline. The drive to criminalize has more to do with ideology than effectiveness."

Read the first chapter so far and I already LOVE this book. The author explains why police reforming is useless as he states: "It is a myth that police brings justice" (...) "The origins and functions of the police are tied to the management of inequality of class and race. A kinder, gentler and more diverse war on the poor is still a war on the poor."

I completely agree with that.

"The best way to avoid political violence is to enhance justice at home and abroad, rather than embracing a neoconservative framework of retribution, control, and war, we should look to a human rights and social justice framework that seeks to ensure universal healthcare, education, housing, and food, as well as equal access to the political process..."

"We must also rethink our largely uncritical relationship with Israel, whose actions in the region have been incredibly destabilizing, and whose behavior in Gaza and the West Bank have inspired widespread revulsion, some of which blows back on the United States in the form of both international and domestic terrorism."

"Border policing is hugely expensive and largely ineffective, and produces substantial collateral harms including mass criminalization, violation of human rights, unnecessary deaths, the breakup of families, racism, and xenophobia."

"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants, but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is that system which must be changed."

acab and fuck ice