1305: The abolitionist horizon / Mariame Kaba
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bigger! You're welcome to be on. You're welcome. |
| 0:24.0 | Thank you, man. |
| 0:25.0 | You're welcome to be on. This is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | is hell. |
| 0:40.0 | manufacturing descent since 1996. |
| 0:46.0 | This is hell. |
| 0:49.0 | The police and policing are not broken if they were broken then that would imply they can |
| 0:56.8 | be fixed and the police and policing as we know them today as they exist |
| 1:01.6 | right now those processes cannot be fixed. The very premise |
| 1:07.5 | of police that they can reduce harm done to the population through their |
| 1:11.6 | own application of violence and force is at best flawed and |
| 1:15.6 | at its very worst deadly imposing an ominous menace that is constantly watching your |
| 1:21.4 | every move with the assumption that you are engaged in some form of criminality, |
| 1:25.6 | especially in marginalized communities of people of color, specifically black people. |
| 1:31.2 | But if, as our guest today argues, if the police cannot be fixed then what is to be done about those who would do harm to us? |
| 1:40.0 | How can we be safe and secure without police? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, the first thing you'd have to answer is, |
| 1:47.0 | How safe are we with police? |
| 1:50.0 | The institution doesn't really seem to have a very good track record when it comes to stopping or solving crimes. |
| 1:55.0 | That's seemingly shoddy record aside without police, there's the assumption there would be chaos with 24-7 looting as there would be a sudden vacuum when it comes to serving and protecting the public. |
| 2:06.2 | The problem with that belief is cops spend most of their time doing non-cop things instead of stopping criminals and solving |
| 2:12.2 | crimes. |
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