THREAD on police and property: There are more vacant homes and luxury apartments in Los Angeles than houseless people. (1)
There is no city, county, or state where a person can afford a two-bedroom home while working 40 hours/week for the federal minimum wage. (2)
It is only possible to afford a one-bedroom home in 22 of 3,000+ counties while working a job making the federal minimum wage (3)
One of the most common police arrests each year in the U.S. is "trespassing" on land owned by someone else by a person who does not have a home (4)
Is it possible that police are deeply connected to enforcement of unequal land ownership? (5)
Even after slavery and theft of land from indigenous people, US housing policy at every level deliberately destroyed Black and indigenous land ownership for the past 100 years. (6)
The people distracting you by talking about better police "training" and "community policing" have nothing to say about this. They want you to focus on "bad apple" cops and ignore the major function of police: preserving unequal ownership by force. (end)
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