« Des enquêtes menées dans différentes régions du monde, dont le Québec, tendent à révéler que non seulement la police est un important vecteur et un multiplicateur de violence immédiate et structurelle envers les populations, mais qu’elle n’a pas non plus les vertus préventives et dissuasives qu’on lui prête. De plus, les réformes échouent à la rendre plus efficace et moins dangereuse.

La présence policière, indiquent de récentes études, n’a qu’un effet marginal sur la réduction des crimes sur la propriété et a un impact nul sur les crimes contre la personne. Plus encore, elle tend à accroître les comportements considérés comme délinquants et à produire et à reproduire une violence directe »

#police #acab #defundthepolice #abolition #violencespolicières #criminalité #crime #sociologie #Justice ⚖

Gérer la violence autrement, ou le court terme sans la police

par Philippe Néméh-Nombré et Ted Rutland et 59 signataires dans Idées dans Le Devoir

https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/797710/societe-gerer-violence-autrement-ou-court-terme-police?

Tomorrow in #NYC #Abolition #BlockParty #FreeThemAll

A few days ago, #Minnesota police pulled over a driver who was losing consciousness behind the wheel. Instead of taking this man to get help, they arrested him, and he died.

Police do not keep us safe.
#WeKeepUsSafe
#Abolition

Ted Rutland, professeur à l’Université Concordia et spécialiste des questions policières qui est à l’origine de la demande d’accès à l’information, déplore que les ressources supplémentaires spécialement accordées au SPVM pour contrer la violence armée soient en fin de compte utilisées pour financer les activités régulières du service. « On donne plein de ressources au SPVM pour attaquer un problème fortement médiatisé, mais c’est difficile de vraiment cibler un problème comme les armes à feu avec des escouades du genre », constate-t-il.

« Bien souvent, ça ne fait que donner libre cours au profilage », ajoute-t-il.

#acab #SPVM #police #Montréal #defundthepolice #abolition #⚖ #Justice #profilage #racisme

Une escouade pas si dédiée à la violence armée, par Francis Hébert-Bernier dans Pivot

https://pivot.quebec/2023/09/08/une-escouade-pas-si-dediee-a-la-violence-armee/

Ted Rutland, professeur à l’Université Concordia et spécialiste des questions policières qui est à l’origine de la demande d’accès à l’information, déplore que les ressources supplémentaires spécialement accordées au SPVM pour contrer la violence armée soient en fin de compte utilisées pour financer les activités régulières du service. « On donne plein de ressources au SPVM pour attaquer un problème fortement médiatisé, mais c’est difficile de vraiment cibler un problème comme les armes à feu avec des escouades du genre », constate-t-il.

« Bien souvent, ça ne fait que donner libre cours au profilage », ajoute-t-il.

#acab #SPVM #police #Montréal #defundthepolice #abolition #⚖ #Justice #profilage #racisme

Une escouade pas si dédiée à la violence armée, par Francis Hébert-Bernier dans Pivot

September 2023 | Our Outside Project Manager, as well as other JLS region liaisons attended a conference in Seattle this past weekend. Salute to the comrades hosting the conference and for a platform to speak on the JLS Housing Project, local prison demands & more. #Abolition

Today in Labor History September 3, 1838: Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north, where he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. During his lifetime, he wrote 3 autobiographies and became a best-selling author. He also fought for women’s suffrage and was the first black man nominated to run for vice president. Douglass opposed colonialism and segregated schools. He was the most photographed American of the 19th century, never smiling once for the camera so as to not play into the racist myth of the happy slave.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #slavery #Abolition #FrederickDouglass #feminism #segregation #education #colonialism #author #writer #biography #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Una gran parte del debate sobre la abolición de la policía se refiere a las respuestas no policiales a la delincuencia violenta, pero la mayor parte del trabajo policial no está relacionado con la delincuencia violenta. La mayor parte, tal vez todo, es de naturaleza económica – diseñado para evitar que los trabajadores utilicen la propiedad productiva para satisfacer sus propias necesidades directamente – para mantener los bienes comunes cerrados. Este trabajo significa que la policía está inextricablemente integrada en la economía de maneras sorprendentes que en gran medida no se discuten en el contexto de la abolición, lo que desencadenaría cambios monumentales, casi inimaginables en la forma en que nosotros, como sociedad, satisfacemos nuestras necesidades humanas a través del trabajo. Es probable que el fin de la policía signifique el fin del capitalismo, lo que sugiere que no será fácil de conseguir dada la magnitud de lo que está en juego.

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Abolition #PoliceAbolition #Anarquismo #Abolición

https://www.federacionanarquista.net/el-fin-de-la-policia-significa-el-fin-del-capitalismo-algunos-efectos-economicos-de-la-abolicion-probables-pero-poco-discutidos-2023-adrian-riskin/

Swing by next Monday (9/4) and write a letter or drop off a book! We’ll be doing our monthly letters to prisoners writing meet up as well as accepting donations for the book drive to support the people doing time in Coffee Creek.

If you’d like to drop off a book please remember that they need to be in new condition, nothing explicitly sexual or violent is allowed in, and no technical manuals.

#portland #pdx #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSupport #abolition

Today in Labor History August 30, 1800: Gabriel Prosser postponed his planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia. The authorities still arrested and executed him, along with 20 others. While the revolt never occurred, it was the one event that most directly confronted the founding fathers with the enormous gulf between their ideal of liberty and their sleazy accommodations to slavery. It led to a rash of new legislation curtailing the rights of free African Americans, as well as laws prohibiting the education and hiring out of enslaved black people. Richmond, at the time of the planned revolt, was a black-majority town, with 39% of its residents being enslaved. There was a community whipping post, where people were brutalized publicly. There was also a growing number of free black people in Richmond, due in part to the influence of abolitionist Quakers and Methodists, as well as numerous refugees from the Haitian Revolution, a few years prior. The goal of the uprising was to completely end slavery in Virginia by holding Virginia's Governor, James Monroe, hostage to negotiate for their freedom. In 2007, Governor Tim Kaine informally pardoned Gabriel.

Arna Bontemps, a member of the Harlem Rennaisance, wrote Black Thunder (1936), a historical novel based on Gabriel's Rebellion. Alex Haley mentions it in his book, Roots. Barbara Chase-Riboud writes about it in her 1979 novel, Sally Hemings. And "Gabriel, the Musical" was produced in Richmond Virginia in 2022, with libretto by Jerold Solomon, Foster Solomon and Ron Klipp, and Music & Lyrics by Ron Klipp.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #rebellion #uprising #GabrielProsser #richmond #virginia #Revolution #haiti #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastdaon #books #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

#InquisitionsWroteHistory: Black #suffering is permissible because it is deserved. The #South’s paranoia around #negrophilism spurred #violent #inquisitions that snuffed out traces of “negrophile” doctrines like #abolition from the crevices of Southern #life.

#wokeness #StateSanctionedViolence #2ndAmendmentPatrols #SettlerColonialSCOTUS #corruptrobertscourt #cointelpro

From: @MotherJones
https://press.coop/@MotherJones/110972404368699440

Our new police abolition essay "Kick the Cops off Your Block" is now available on substack. This essay gives an analysis of the police, many alternatives to the police, and ways to get to a world without hierarchical security forces and what they enforce

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/kick-the-cops-off-your-block

#anarchism #police #policeabolition #anarchy #socialism #communism #prison #prisonabolition #abolition #abolitionism #acab #cops #communal #utopia #praxis
#directaction #mutualaid #mediation
#transformativejustice
#restorativejustice #selfdefense #mediation #freeassociation #hierarchy #equality #statecraft #capitalism

Even if abolitionists came up with pragmatic and convincing answers to every possible question about handling violence without police, and I have no doubt that they can, will, and mostly already have done so, they’ll never convince anyone that capitalism can survive abolition. It cannot. I don’t know how to get rid of the police – if I did they’d already be gone. But I think the stakes are too high, the very survival of capitalism itself, for the police to be abolished because the arguments are sound, because it’s the right thing to do, because enough people want it to happen. Abolition will be a revolution. It will take a revolution to make it happen.

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Abolition #PoliceAbolition #TheAnarchistLibrary #ACAB

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/adrian-riskin-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-econ

A great deal of discussion about police abolition concerns non-police responses to violent crime, but most police work is unrelated to violent crime. Most, maybe all, of this is economic in nature – designed to keep working people from using productive property to meet their own needs directly – to keep the commons enclosed. This work means the police are inextricably integrated into the economy in surprising ways that are largely undiscussed in the context of abolition, which would trigger monumental, almost unimaginable changes in how we as a society meet our human needs through work. It’s likely that the end of policing would mean the end of capitalism, which suggests that it won’t be easy to achieve given the magnitude of what’s at stake.

#Abolition #PoliceAbolition #Capitalism #Police #ACAB #LosAngeles #Anarchy #Anarchism #Enclosure #Commons #Landlords #TenantsRights #Squatting

https://chez-risk.in/2023/08/24/the-end-of-policing-means-the-end-of-capitalism-some-likely-but-rarely-discussed-economic-effects-of-abolition/

« Partout dans le monde, des milliers de personnes (manifestant·es ou passant·es) ont été mutilées et des dizaines d’autres tuées suite à l'utilisation abusive d’armes à létalité réduite en manifestation. » -Amnesty International

abolir ou encadrer ces armes?
abolir la police oui!

#defundthepolice #abolition
#droitdemanifester #acab #armeslétalitéréduite #répressionpolicière

https://www.amnesty.fr/liberte-d-expression/actualites/alerte-sur-lusage-des-armes-a-letalite-reduite-en-manifestation

👀 y’all are getting a sneak peak on the most recent project 👀

We’re doing a book drive! From now through the month of September we’ll be collecting books for the people at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison. You can drop off new or *very gently* used books at Revolutions Bookshop, or Venmo/Cashapp money donations to put toward a book order and the cost of shipping.

#PDX #Portland #Prison #Abolition #FreeThemAll #PrisonerSolidarity

@Mor696

I hear you. But to say people who fight back are responsible for police violence is wrong. We must push back against state sanctioned violence. #Abolition

It is the white & nonviolent nonviolent people who should be on the front lines during protest events. Folks hurtling shit at police should be behind them, protected. And in terms of effectiveness, MLK was effective because white folks were terrified of Malcolm X & the Panthers. #FredHampton

Today in Labor History August 18, 1823: Enslaved people in Demerara (Guyana) used their license to travel on an official rest day to launch an uprising of that included more than 30,000 enslaved people. The rebellion was largely nonviolent, but the authorities still brutally crushed it. They slaughtered hundreds of slaves and executed dozens more after the fighting ended.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #slavery #uprising #rebellion #revolt #abolition #demerara #BlackMastadon

Asserting Autonomy: Mapuche Political Prisoners Embark on a Dry Hunger Strike

https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/mapuche-angol-prison

#Chile #Mapuche #Indigenous #PoliticalPrisoners #abolition #HungerStrike @abolition

Alabama Department of Corrections is on a statewide lockdown after a prisoner took a guard hostage last night, stealing his gun and vest. The situation is ongoing.

Shaw, who took the guard hostage has said on Facebook live “They like to use crime and punishment as the guise for keeping up white supremacy but that’s an old trick that’s been exposed..They profess to be about law and order but they don’t follow no kind of laws these people break the laws. Completely disregard the laws bend the laws and do all of that as they see it.”

A woman who has gone to the prison in support of Shaw said “This is the thing. They kill our loved ones, they kill our people on the inside on a regular basis. Nobody does anything they get away with it. But when they feel like something is going to happen to one of theirs, look how they respond. They don’t want to be peaceful.”

Approximately 110 people have already died is ADOC custody this year, and that is expected to be an undercount.

https://www.alreporter.com/2023/08/13/incarcerated-person-takes-guard-hostage-at-donaldson-facility-situation-ongoing/

#prison #adoc #alabama #abolition