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People need to wrap their heads around the idea that anarchism doesn't mean that we live without accountability. It means that we live without coercion. The Police do not provide us with machinery of accountability. They provide us with machinery to coerce. (1)
Getting rid of the carceral state doesn't mean we live without consequences. Accountability in an anarchist society must be largely voluntary. You always have the option to get gone. If you won't be accountable and you won't get gone then there remains a final option. (2)
There will still be professional investigators in an anarchist society. They will maintain and share case files. They will call people to account according to facts on the ground and evidence as they read it. The difference will simply be that these investigators will not... (3)
...have extra rights such as summary punishment as the police de facto now do. An anarchist society must be *more* devoted to standards of truth and evidence, not less because we will not have hallowed institutions of power to keep people in line. (4)
Amongst other things this means that anarchism cannot afford to be tribal and it cannot be reductive. To borrow from my favorite TV show, "The first duty of an anarchist is to the truth." (5)
It is not "Cop" to call someone out for specific, knowing and continued wrongdoing. If you prioritize the wellbeing of your tribal allies over your duty to the truth or to their victims then you are not an anarchist. There is a word for people like you and it's not kind. (6)
In sum then, an anarchist society would be a very dangerous place to be a predator. There are people in the movement who must surely know that the legal system they rail against is their only protection. (7)
