Books Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

[National Socialist]

I'm going to bold what seems most important.

I didn't really like this book too much: She says, "When all was said and done, three people had died, and more than $200 million in damages were sustained from the riot." I guess these damages are outweighed by police and prison costs. My first thought was why is she mentioning riots in a book that I assume is supposed to persuade for abolition? It seems like self-criticism. ... There's other things I didn't like in the book.

Most people assume that incarceration helps to reduce violence and crime, thinking, “The criminal punishment system might be racist, sexist, classist, ableist, and unfair, but it at least keeps me safe from violence and crime.”

They're ableist and whatnot because it disproportionately affects the disabled.

Research and common sense suggest that economic precarity is correlated with higher crime rates.

Shot in the back as he tried to evade arrest, a seventh-grade schoolboy was killed by a Detroit patrolman late Sunday. The boy, Beverly Lee, 13, of 2637 Twelfth Street, was shot by Patrolman Louis Begin,

Cops kill kids.

The adultification of Black children has long and deep roots that date back to chattel slavery. In fact, before the Civil War, half of all enslaved people were under sixteen years old. Enslaved children were property and were expected to work; children as young as six years old worked the fields.

I think this is mentioned because sometimes kids are tried as adults.

There is not a single era in United States history in which the police were not a force of violence against Black people. Policing in the South emerged from the slave patrols in the 1700s and 1800s that caught and returned runaway slaves. In the North, the first municipal police departments in the mid-1800s helped quash labor strikes and riots against the rich.

Minneapolis had instituted many of these “best practices” but failed to remove Derek Chauvin from the force despite seventeen misconduct complaints over nearly two decades, culminating in the entire world watching as he knelt on George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes.

A study in 2010 found that sexual misconduct was the second most frequently reported form of police misconduct.

In 2015, the Buffalo News found that an officer was caught for sexual misconduct every five days.

And what I mean by that is, for example, powerful people stepping down from their jobs are consequences, not punishments.
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But if we were punishing you, we would make it so that you could never make a living again in any context,

People who are sending thousands of people off to kill other people in wars all around the world are not considered criminal.

fact of the matter is that more than 50 percent of people who are harmed, very badly harmed by the way, never contact law enforcement at all in the first place. And so that means they prefer nothing at all, as my friend Danielle Sered says, from Common Justice. They prefer nothing at all rather than what we currently offer

We never locked our doors in SP and our Earth visitor insisted that this was unsafe.

There is no such thing as private property in SP so no one had reason to steal from anyone else when they could simply share what others had.

When circles have been exhausted, the killer is taken to the ocean, tied up, and dropped into the water. This empathy ceremony takes place in front of the entire community. The immediate family members of the victim are given the option of saving the life of the killer or letting them drown.