#beyond policing

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From Khalil Gibran in the podcast “American Police” by NPR Throughline.

[ID: Black text, underlined with gold stripes, set against a sunset with the silhouette of a mountain.  “And so the question that has to be asked in the wake of George Floyd is, do white people in America still want the police to protect their interests over the rights and dignity and lives of Black, brown, Indigenous and Asian populations in this country?” Khalil Gibran Muhammad]

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We were attempting to capture the globality of the organization of punishment, even as we were very specifically attempting to create a way to understand why it was that such huge numbers of people were in prison in the US, the racial disparities of the prison population, and at the same time, the decline of education, of healthcare, etc.

Angela Davis, “The Shifting Concept of the PIC” a video by Critical Resistance, for the series “Breaking down the PIC”

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The dominant liberal mode of interpreting policing is an individualized, dehistoricized, and decontextualized discourse. Not only with regard to the historical role of police, but also regarding the root causes of crime and violence.

Orisanmi Burton

from Abolition 101 lecture by Orisanmi Burton

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from Abolition 101 lecture by Orisanmi Burton 

[ID - “Abolition mobilizes a profound faith in the capacity of human beings, of every day people to articulate and organize and struggle for what they need and what they want and what they deserve” Orisanmi Burton]