Viola Ford Fletcher, 108 years old & the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre writes in her memoir, ‘Don’t let them bury my story.’
USA police budgets would rank as world's third-costliest military
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defund the police
also our military spends more than all these other nations combined, so there's that too. but why do we spend almost as much on our ineffective and hostile police as we do on our comically over-funded military?
stop wasting money on the military prison industrial complex
As anarchist Allen Thornton points out, “Police aren’t in the protection business; they’re in the revenge business.” Police officers rarely interrupt criminal activity as it’s happening, and so they’re not really preventing or stopping crimes at all. Rather, they intervene after the crime has already been committed. In addition, the militarization of police forces with weapons of war does not reduce crime rates, while simultaneously, it weakens public support of said police forces. So, if cops aren’t preventing or stopping crimes, what are they really doing? They are serving as henchmen for the State.
-- excerpt from my article, Comrades, let us radicalize
SF to dismiss almost all cases against Dolores hill bomb teens
San Francisco officials to dismiss cases against 79 of the 81 teenagers arrested for hill bomb rioting. Status of arrested adults is unclear.
— Read on missionlocal.org/2023/07/hill-bomb-sf-to-dismiss-almost-all-charges-against-teens/
We pay taxes to send police to Israel for “counter terrorism” training, only to have them return to America and use what they learned from the IDF to more efficiently brutalize Black and Brown civilians (source) (source) (source)