Fixing America: Things to watch and read.
- Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop – American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth. https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
- Superb round up on what defunding the police really means – “Police Abolition: The Growing Movement to Defund the Police” https://kottke.org/20/06/police-abolition-defund-the-police
- How can we win? Powerful video explaining why Blacks don’t own anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go
- What Happened to Crime in Camden? Often ranked as one of the deadliest cities in America, Camden, New Jersey, ended 2017 with its lowest homicide rate since the 1980s. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/
- MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ANNOUNCE INTENT TO DISBAND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, INVEST IN PROVEN COMMUNITY-LED PUBLIC SAFETY https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/
- The Fight To Fix Policing Begins At The City Council
A District of Columbia election proves candidates who want to defund the police can win city council posts that give them direct power over police funding. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janeese-lewis-george-districi-of-columbia-police-reform-city-councils_n_5edaab12c5b6dc3de7b95082
- Obama’s Commit To Action: A call for mayors, city councils, and police oversight bodies to address police use of force policies. https://www.obama.org/mayor-pledge/
- Code Switch: How Much Do We Need The Police? https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police
- Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities. The choice to resource punitive systems instead of stabilizing and nourishing ones does notmake communities safer. Instead, study after study shows that a living wage, access to holistic health services and treatment, educational opportunity, and stable housing are far more successful in reducing crime than police or prisons. https://populardemocracy.org/news/publications/freedom-thrive-reimagining-safety-security-our-communities
- The Price of Defunding the Police: A new report fleshes out the controversial demand to cut police department budgets and reallocate those funds into healthcare, housing, jobs, and schools. Will that make communities of color safer? https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/the-price-of-defunding-the-police/533232/
- The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.
It is an attack on civil society and democratic accountability. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/sunday/police-riots.html
- Emmanuel Acho Twitter: Dear white people, For days you’ve asked me what you can do to help. I’ve finally found an answer. Let your guard down and listen. https://twitter.com/thEMANacho/status/1267609472589090816
- we need more. Song by Taylor Fagins dedicated to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless Black sisters and brothers who have died.)
- It’s long past time for Drumpf to resign – from the Portland, Maine, Press Herald. Our View: To President Trump: You should resign now. He lacks the character, maturity and judgment to lead the country in a perilous time.
- So much unnecessary heartache caused because Nixon wanted to target blacks and anti-war protesters… Nixon Started the War on Drugs to Target Black People & the Antiwar Left
- Heartbreaking to watch. He’s reaching out with words of love, and they arrest him for no reason at all. Shameful. https://twitter.com/sweeeetdee_/status/1267319103167107072
- If only the Dems had the guts to do these things…”Democrats would have you believe they are victims and have no power in this situation — which is, in a word, horseshit. And not just run-of-the-mill horseshit we’ve all gotten used to — this is especially dangerous horseshit, because we need them to actually use the power they currently have to oppose what’s going on. Right now.” https://sirota.substack.com/p/10-things-dems-could-do-right-now
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