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Like K-12 public schools, public universities are meant to be places of learning
Not entry points for the school to prison pipeline
It's time to #AbolishThePolice across academia — and California should lead the way
Here's why (thread):
Not entry points for the school to prison pipeline
It's time to #AbolishThePolice across academia — and California should lead the way
Here's why (thread):
With 250K+ employees and 800K+ students, the population of California's UC and CSU campuses rivals that of our largest cities
Like those cities, campus cops disproportionately target Black, Indigenous and Latinx people
What's the opposite of #WhitePrivilege? BIPOC oppression
Like those cities, campus cops disproportionately target Black, Indigenous and Latinx people
What's the opposite of #WhitePrivilege? BIPOC oppression
Despite 200 reported incidents of #PoliceBrutality, the University of California police system:
- has disclosed almost no records to support police transparency or accountability
- not updated its transparency and accountability website in a half decade
- has disclosed almost no records to support police transparency or accountability
- not updated its transparency and accountability website in a half decade
Predictably, the '12, '13, '18 and '19 task forces didn't address policing's racist roots or application
Task forces and reforms facilitate *more* spending on policing, not less — and the UCPD budget has consistently increased, even amid the 2020-2021 #BlackLivesMatter
protests
Task forces and reforms facilitate *more* spending on policing, not less — and the UCPD budget has consistently increased, even amid the 2020-2021 #BlackLivesMatter
protests
As @DocMellyMel, Angela Davis and Robin DG Kelley write in @sacbee_news:
"With the clarity of hindsight, we can see the absurdity, indeed the cruelty, of convening a task force to reform chattel slavery, or a public safety commission to imagine a kinder, gentler apartheid."
"With the clarity of hindsight, we can see the absurdity, indeed the cruelty, of convening a task force to reform chattel slavery, or a public safety commission to imagine a kinder, gentler apartheid."
Inspired by K-12 students, teachers and parents who have successfully organized to substantially #DefundThePolice or entirely remove police from Oakland and Los Angeles schools, we must amplify the demands of @Blklivesmatter, @Mvmnt4BlkLives, 8 to abolition and @TENDEMANDS
As @mpd_150 and I have said, abolition is not about *instantly* closing every PD and prison
"Abolition is a process of strategically reallocating resources, funding and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support and prevention."
"Abolition is a process of strategically reallocating resources, funding and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support and prevention."
What are we talking about when we talk about “a police-free future?” by @MPD_150:
https://www.mpd150.com/what-are-we-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-a-police-free-future/
The @TENDEMANDS:
https://www.tendemands.com/demands
#AbolishThePolice #AbolishPrisons
https://www.mpd150.com/what-are-we-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-a-police-free-future/
The @TENDEMANDS:
https://www.tendemands.com/demands
#AbolishThePolice #AbolishPrisons
Read the @sacbee_news column by @DocMellyMel, Angela Davis and Robin DG Kelley to learn more about what #AbolishThePolice means, why it's critical in all our nation's schools, and how California can and should take the lead https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article248636275.html
