Hey I found an excerpt from Vitale's book that I mentioned!: "It is largely a liberal fantasy that the police exist to protect us from the bad guys. A...
Oh yes and then there was that study where about 40% of cops are domestic abusers, can't forget that one. One assumes when they come home from beating...
It is of course unsurprising that the most murderous police force in the world has PTSD problems. It must of course be traumatizing to have to continu...
I don't think that the US is incomparable. That is of course too strong. But it is nonetheless unique in scale and political engineering that encourag...
The only thing extremist is the list of dead black men that continue to pile up in the street on video - and not on video - every other day. And the u...
If anyone has the stomach to follow the hundreds of incidents of police brutality captured on camera in the last couple of days in the US alone, they ...
Correct. The US is orders of magnitude more barbarous than the rest of the world, when it comes to their cops, as reflected in their social policy, qu...
The lesson I took from it is - look institutionally. Solutions pitched at an individual level don't work. Body cams don't work because the institution...
I take the point that I get a bit sweary. I endeavour to couch my insults in higher degrees of innuendo and metaphor, with only the occasional direct ...
There are no easy answers but a couple of points are well worth making. First, that 'political will' is not something that pre-exists, but is forged -...
Some interesting proposals from someone who seems to know their stuff: https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224 Some highlights - Body c...
C'mon man, I just wrote you a whole thing about the specific function and employment of the police as a matter of social policy in the US and all you ...
I - nor any mod - don't simply ban people for insults or hostility alone. I would would be long gone were that the case. To be clear about the order o...
Y'know what is a far more effective way to hobble a movement? To suck all discourse around it into a black hole over 'rioting and looting' when saying...
So here's a fun fact I learnt. After MLK was assasinated, the US was hit by the biggest and most violent riots since the civil war. There were uprisin...
We're all complict. The only question is how to be a little less complicit, in whatever small or big ways we can. Adorno's ethical question comes to m...
Basically the state of American electoral politics right now: would you prefer to be short in the heart, or shot in the leg? Democrats will only maim ...
https://sports.yahoo.com/biden-suggests-police-could-shoot-assailants-in-the-leg-instead-of-the-heart-201750470.html "Joe Biden said Monday that polic...
It should be absolutely infuriating to people that actual talk of instituional reform of even the speculative kind involved in demands like the above ...
Seen in the wild: "5 demands, not one less. 1. ?Establish an independent inspector body that investigates misconduct or criminal allegations and contr...
I say all this in the full realization that almost no one is equiped with the conceptual resources to carry out any other kind of conversation because...
If people in this thread spent even a quarter of their energy discussing the sources of why this all happened rather than pouring time into the questi...
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