latimes.com/science/story/… Getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men in America
washingtonpost.com/politics/court… Barr recently gave a speech about how police are the only thing keeping society from eating itself and how police constantly endanger themselves dealing with the filthy criminals lurking around every corner
being a police officer or firefighter is the 15th deadliest job in america (6.2deaths/1000 workers), behind taxi drivers (14.7), farmers (22), truckers (24.3) garbage collectors (38.8!), fisherman (54.8) and loggers (132.7) cbsnews.com/pictures/the-2…
The history of slave patrols ties deeply into policing (and gun rights) truthout.org/articles/unite…
The history of the second amendment is tied into slave patrols truthout.org/articles/the-s…
Where do police come from? scalawagmagazine.org/2016/09/where-…
the NRA funded an alternative reading of the second amendment as part of a wide campaign politico.com/magazine/story…
and the NRA of course opposed open carry when it was black men doing the carrying snopes.com/fact-check/nra…
why do we have prisons? are they effective at what we think prisons should do? are there alternatives? are alternatives more effective for the goals at hand? oucriminology.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/pri…
page 4 of this PDF has some great FAQs about prison abolition, including "What about murderers and rapists"? "Aren't there some people who are so dangerous that they need to get locked up?" criticalresistance.org/wp-content/upl…
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