Crime is down and it has been falling for the last 25 years since it peaked in the early 1990s. According to the Pew Research Center, both FBI reports and annual surveys of American households both show that violent and property crimes have dropped by over 50%.pic.twitter.com/kpQxvp3C4R
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But listening to "law and order" politicians like Trump, who hinted at bringing in the National Guard to
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This perception of a rising threat of violent crime promoted by the State is then picked up on by the population. As Pew wrote: "In 18 of 22 Gallup surveys since 1993 that have asked about national crime, at least six-in-ten Americans said there was more crime in the U.S."pic.twitter.com/FB06ynXSfv
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While fears of specifically violent and property crimes are largely misplaced, in reality, when politicians and the pundit class speak of crime, what they really are referring to is black insurgency.pic.twitter.com/ADCRtq8dp4
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The equation of something seemingly anti-social like crime with rebellion + social movements against domination isn't new. After the Southern Strategy attempted to move white Southern voters into the GOP camp by appealing to race, the party would make this a common practice.pic.twitter.com/rkDF5AqP4e
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This quote from Republican strategist Lee Atwater in 1981 is especially telling, as he lays out how the GOP uses racist dog whistles in places of out right racial slurs that might have been used in the past, in order to appeal to racist white voters.pic.twitter.com/ghwa8iyc5D
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Today images of black uprisings against the police are presented as the logical end result of black crime itself; but one that lies just outside of the gates of whiteness. This is also reflected in data on how Americans see crime: that it is rising nationally but not locally.pic.twitter.com/YxYGr8Nm00
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Ironically data also points to the failure of 'broken windows' policing, or the idea that police must clamp down on small infractions to prevent a much larger disorder from growing. Quite the opposite; broken windows has simply lead to more intense hatred towards the police.pic.twitter.com/lCn94x0q1E
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But broken windows policing also fed into a bigger push for large scale counter-insurgency operations across the US. "…following the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, the state switched to a strategy of permanent repression...counter-insurgency."pic.twitter.com/FcugGCCRDA
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"Police developed a preemptive model of repression which sought to prevent insurgency before it happened. Poor neighborhoods especially black and brown, which were the source of much insurgency during the 1960s and 1970s, are hit particularly hard by this preemptive strategy."pic.twitter.com/TYOQeJZyQ0
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The War on Drugs also gave cover for the ramping up of repression and militarization of the police against the anti-war Left and the black liberation movement. One of Nixon's top aides, John Ehrlichman, famously stated:pic.twitter.com/1JYbadNoAi
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But the true nature of the police, a force which protects structural inequalities in racialized class society, becomes most clear in situations in which the authority and power of the police has been negated by the self-organization and revolt of everyday people.pic.twitter.com/USS4VxZ6Ej
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A clear example of this is the way that police + officials responded to the gang truce that began in LA right before the LA Rebellion kicked off in 1992. The gang truce led to a vast reduction in violent crime, however gang truce events were broken up, often violently by police.pic.twitter.com/780BHSsOMM
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Another would be the vicious attacks on the Occupy Oakland encampment in 2011, who's presence even police noted, led to a drop in crime and engaged in massive mutual aid projects in the surrounding area.pic.twitter.com/LRIlPOd2kD
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Likewise, brutality shown against prisoners and those protesting the inhuman conditions at the
#DekalbCountyJail near#Atlanta shows that the police are willing to break their own laws to dish out violence against those who are simply asking that the system follow its own rules.pic.twitter.com/P9dNwIoT7n이 스레드 보기 -
"Thus, through the state of exception; the State’s tendency to suspend the rule of law and level even deadly violence against the population, the police enforce a structural reality that refuses to abide by even its own rules but ensures social peace."pic.twitter.com/wFg1h7NX0x
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"If it hasn’t been made clear by now, what the State is concerned about is putting down potential rebellion, not stopping crime. Policing in itself does little to actually stop crime, but instead is more concerned with maintaining a material force that can put down the rabble. "pic.twitter.com/QbcvFbKaqh
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Could it be that rampant crime was a means of the state controlling people thru indirect oppression...? And so now that crime is down and can no longer be the means of control over people that it once was... the state must take a more direct active role in oppression...?
감사합니다. 보내주신 피드백은 타임라인을 개선하는 데 사용됩니다. 취소취소
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I'm sure your facts wont change their narrative. Years ago I was shocked when a very boring suburban city started using external body armor. Now all the units have SUVs to haul all the tactical stuff in. If I don't want to pay for any of that, they just take the house.
감사합니다. 보내주신 피드백은 타임라인을 개선하는 데 사용됩니다. 취소취소
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Authority needs to end.
감사합니다. 보내주신 피드백은 타임라인을 개선하는 데 사용됩니다. 취소취소
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