Police Perspectives: Socialist News And Views Episode # 51

NEWS + AUDIO + POLICE PERSPECTIVES NEWS: The March to End Fossil Fuels: 75,000 Rally in NYC to Push Biden & World Leaders on Climate Crisis: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/18/march_to_end_fossil_fuels_presser CONFUSED AUTOMAKERS BRACED FOR STRIKE AT THE WRONG PLANTS: https://theintercept.com/2023/09/19/uaw-strike-auto-plants/ Expand the Big Three autoworkers strike! For an industry-wide walkout, not phony “stand up strikes”!: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/20/mdbv-s20.html Activists accuse state corrections of delaying program that will let prisoners out earlier : https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/06/27/activists-accuse-state-corrections-of-delaying-program-that-will-let-prisoners-out-earlier/ Activists rally outside governor's house, protest conditions at Stillwater prison: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/activists-rally-outside-governors-house-protest-conditions-at-stillwater-prison/ Activists call for DOC to speed up enacting the Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/activists-call-for-doc-to-speed-up-enacting-the-minnesota-rehabilitation-and-reinvestment-act/ ---- AUDIO: A collaboration of Socialist News and Views (https://www.facebook.com/SocialistNewsAndViews) + Urban Cabin Studios (https://www.instagram.com/urbancabinstudios/) + Leftist News Network (https://www.instagram.com/leftistnewsnetwork/) The Root Causes of Crime: https://preventingcrime.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Causes_of_Crime.pdf Fifty Years Ago Today, President Nixon Declared the War on Drugs: https://www.vera.org/news/fifty-years-ago-today-president-nixon-declared-the-war-on-drugs How the 1994 Crime Bill Fed the Mass Incarceration Crisis: https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/how-1994-crime-bill-fed-mass-incarceration-crisis Three Strikes: A Mistake That Led to Mass Incarceration: https://nyccriminallawyer.com/three-strikes-a-mistake-that-led-to-mass-incarceration/ Black Man Serving Life Sentence For Stealing Hedge Clippers Granted Parole: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/18/925198663/black-man-serving-life-sentence-for-stealing-hedge-clippers-granted-parole LABOR AND THE CARCERAL STATE: https://lpeproject.org/blog/labor-and-the-carceral-state/#:~:text=Because%20wages%20for%20this%20work,world%2C%20full%2Dwage%20workers. Hochul Proposes Bringing Back Private Prison Labor: https://nysfocus.com/2022/02/23/hochul-proposes-bringing-back-private-prison-labor Mayor Eric Adams suggests possible second chance for Rikers Island's future: https://abc7ny.com/rikers-island-mayor-eric-adams-prison-jail/13717116/ NYC's Adams' sweeps of homeless camps criticized: https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_york/article_d857c136-1690-11ee-b6e2-c75e949d44c9.html ---- POLICE PERSPECTIVES: So...as it relates to the institution of police in our society what should our slogans and/or demands be? Community Control of the Police/Defund the Police/Abolish the Police? Something Else? A different kind of focus/framing all together? Why? Slavery and the Origins of the American Police State: https://gen.medium.com/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state-ec318f5ff05b Rape victims seeking help become suspects in false reporting claims, documentary finds: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/09/05/netflix-documentary-police-rape-victims-lies-suspect/70608775007/ Minneapolis Continues Encampment Evictions, Displacing Hundreds in May: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/minneapolis-continues-encampment-evictions-displacing-hundreds-in-may/ Mpls committee gets feedback on MPD contract: https://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/world/mpls-committee-gets-feedback-on-mpd-contract/video/e8e32d03d51e6e3fba84b914a9b7ec66