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Safety and justice after policing / Geo Maher

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Writer Geo Maher on his book "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police

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0:00.0

First the offensive house in the shop, lost your foot in homeless now.

0:07.0

Cover metal on the wall, can't blend on the wall. The Gand Land on

0:14.0

like the

0:15.0

It's in

0:17.0

Make it down

0:18.0

Make it down I'm thinking back. This is hell. And we are back manufacturing descent since 1996.

0:48.0

This is hell when it comes to police abolition as a past guest here on this is hell

0:55.1

Miriam Caba has said yes we mean literally abolish the police for a lot of

1:01.9

people the idea can be frightening,

1:03.7

very scary, believing that abolition is about nothing

1:06.0

but abolishing, nothing but erasing and leaving nothing but

1:09.7

a vacuum in its wake.

1:11.4

But that's not all that abolitionism is. Abolition is as much the

1:17.3

tearing down of a brutal and cruel system that is founded and grounded in slavery

1:21.6

as it is about the reconstruction of a new system that is based on

1:25.3

equality and radical democracy.

1:27.9

In the case of the police, it's about ending policing as we know it in creating an alternative process for public safety and

1:35.5

protection one that actually keeps the public safe and protected a new

1:39.7

system that is not only about enforcing the law, but is also about actual justice, a system that offers

1:47.2

no one impunity from the law that holds nobody above the law and applies true justice equally and democratically to all and

1:56.0

none of what I just said applies to how today's police go about their policing.

2:00.7

Instead they do a horrible job at stopping crime

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