Recorded June 10, 2020. Adam and Peter continue covering the protests against racism and police violence throughout the United States. Specifically, they discuss police abolition and why it's necessary to abolish the material conditions and hierarchies that necessitate the existence of police versus just abolishing police departments.
Links:
Bernie Sanders rejects calls to defund and/or abolish the police: https://news.yahoo.com/sanders-dismisses-progressive-calls-defund-195628874.html ; https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bernie-sanders-is-not-done-fighting ; Reason Magazine wants to privatize the police: https://reason.com/2020/06/08/professionalizing-policing-hasnt-worked-privatize-it-instead/ ; community control of police: https://www.blackagendareport.com/community-control-vs-defunding-police-critical-analysis?fbclid=IwAR0sp5O1UEoWFUEpSC6y79Ig0BrPQTzyGxF7OZ957Ijvwq6rM_JfoAqmXPc , https://howiehawkins.us/community-control-of-the-police-an-idea-whose-time-came-and-never-left/ ; police disbanded in Camden, New Jersey: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/08/guardians-not-warriors-how-crime-fell-when-new-jersey-city-dismantled-police-dept/ ; Democrats release police "reform" bill: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/democrats-release-police-reform-bill-after-george-floyd-protests.html ; the power of police unions in blocking reform: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html ; confessions of a former bastard cop: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 ; Ruth Wilson Gilmore on prison abolition and eliminating the conditions that make prison a solution to social ills: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html , https://twitter.com/endywen/status/1250900201771954176
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