“Allow anyone to perform police work.” we’re so conflicted by police. Do they accomplish or restore much handling sex crimes? We know they don’t. But the way we think abt justice for victims of sexual assault is carceral; abolishing police means rethinking all those attachments. https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1274751625085714433

(This is not a direct response to Shannon’s thread or the story she links to!)

But I think a lot of white women are going to struggle more when it becomes clear that abolishing the police also abolishes the (flimsy & fallible) structure we have for dealing w/sexual assault—white women are, in this way, deeply invested in police REFORM.

Who investigates Jeffrey Epstein in a world without police? We don’t know yet. Some people will not be able to tolerate that.

What happens to Harvey Weinstein in a world without prisons? We don’t know yet.

& I don’t think mainstream feminists have confronted this problem as a barrier to abolition yet.

But this story illustrates it: the reform project involved making the police do better work & enlisting civilians in police work.

anyway, I’ll stop and jUsT LeT U eNjOY iT