Pearl Friis’s Reviews > No More Police: A Case for Abolition > Status Update
Pearl Friis
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What if our goalis not to seize the carceral state in an effort to transform it, but to seize power and resources from the police state to create conditions under which new economic systems and forms of governance can emerge? Recapturing the resources the state has extracted is a legitimate, and arguably necessary means of both reducing the misery created by racial capitalism and creating conditions for abolition.
— Sep 03, 2023 11:42AM
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Pearl Friis
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They purposely overlook the fact that defund campaigns call for large-scale investments in programs and infrastructure needed to produce genuine and lasting safety for all. They willfully ignore the fact that defund demands emerged from communities deeply impacted by multiple forms of violence, and from deep study and critical analysis of the long history of policing.
— Feb 04, 2023 01:47PM
