Category: Police & Prisons
The Public Needs Alternatives in an Emergency

What liberal politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge is that crime is linked to the failures of capitalism, not to the lack of police. Indeed, police are part of the problem, not the solution
Programs unprepared to deal with carceral settings could reinforce the dehumanizing aspects of prison
A criminal justice system without empathy amounts to dumping societal problems behind prison walls
Today, Black and other marginalized women are still being prosecuted for defending themselves against domestic and sexual violence
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, “prison warehousing”—which used to be a derogatory term—would look like an upgrade. At least warehouses care about the value of the goods they store.

“The challenge is to have a healing response instead of just continuing the failed policies of the past.”

We can’t speak for other regions that saw similar protests but, here in Ottawa, the city and the cops did absolutely nothing for more than 20 days to try and stop the protest and occupation
The system is rigged against the people it seeks to manage and control, and it’s reach is ever-expanding

“…we don’t want to say some of the things that are obvious, like, Gee, the Child Tax Credit just ran out, on December 31, and now people are stealing baby formula.”