For real, if you don’t hate cops unfollow and block this blog. You are not my ally. I want nothing to do with anyone who at this point still believes “not all cops”. Cops need to be abolished. It’s time to try something else. Too many of them are bigoted people who abuse their power. When we give cops lethal weapons and authority over whole groups of people, there cannot be any room for error. Our modern day police for stems from organized slave catching during the slavery era for fucks sake. We need something else.
@geraniumlady I’m responding to this publicly just so others can see because i know you’re not the only one who is wondering this. Most of these are gonna be from anarchist websites or written by anarchists because we are the main group who are looking into a creating alternatives to police.
This article is a good article to start with that goes into how communities can deal with crime themselves and talks about other places that have already started managing crime in their communities this way.
Here’s a video about what our societies could do instead of having traditional police and prison systems. Its from the point of view of an anarcho-communist and is one part of a series of videos about how anarchism works and what an anarchist society would look like, but this video is easy to understand without having watched the ones before it in the series and points of this video can be translated onto our current society.
Ultimately, a lot of these have to do with crime prevention first and foremost, since less crime means less need for police, but they also talk about what can be done when crime does end up happening. I hope these sources are helpful to you and anyone else reading!
Thank you for the polite and detailed reply! It wouldn’t make any sense to abolish the police force without other systems in place first. This is good reading for this evening so I’ll book mark these links. Maybe if anything good comes out of this pandemic, it will be communities become close-knit enough to where changes like this would actually be feasible.
No problem! I appreciate you asking a genuine question in a polite way!
I agree. I hope that if anything else, our communities become closer, too. If you ever have anymore questions, please let me know!
Thank you for your addition! It would lowkey be great if this turned into some kind of masterpost for police alternatives so if anyone else has anything to add, please do!
here’s a link to Anarchy Works, pretty much a comprehensive manifesto that details solutions to alternatives to policing and explains anarchism as a theory!
Sorry to make an already long post longer, but here are what the highlighted sections say:
In the United States, modern police forces arose at a time when crime was already diminishing. Rather, the institution of police emerged as a means to give the ruling class greater control over the population and expand the state’s monopoly on the resolution of social conflict. This was not a response to crime or an attempt to solve it; on the contrary, it coincided with the creation of new forms of crime. At the same time police forces were being expanded and modernized, the ruling class began to criminalize predominantly lower class behaviors that had previously been acceptable such as vagrancy, gambling, and public drunkenness.Those in authority define “criminal activity” according to their own needs, then present their definitions as neutral and timeless. For example, many more people may be killed by pollution and work-related accidents than by drugs, but drug dealers are branded a threat to society, not factory owners. And even when factory owners break the law in a way that kills people, they are not sent to prison.
Likewise, the intense presence of militarized police in ghettos and poor neighborhoods is connected to the fact that crime stays high in those neighborhoods while rates of incarceration increase. The police and prisons are systems of control that preserve social inequalities, spread fear and resentment, exclude and alienate whole communities, and exercise extreme violence against the most oppressed sectors of society.
Okay so the YouTube channel For Harriet has been hosting a lot of conversations about the police and police and prison abolition.
I am gonna just link one video here that goes into all the questions you could have but she also hosted conversations about why the police can’t be reformed, what happens to abusers, what about black women and so on and so on.
This one is just the questions about after police abolition. It’s really good get channel generally is so good so please do check it out.
Whatever principles you put before you, hold fast to them as laws which it will be impious to transgress. But pay no heed to what any one says of you; for this is something beyond your own control.
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