Abolition Means Reclaiming the Commons and Rejecting Securitization
Movement Memos
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The Origins of Police
The term police was first used in fifteenth century europe. At this time, police meant what we now call social policy. Police power is thus the patriarchal discretion of the head of household applied to the problems of the city. The courts won't tell police they can't drop a bomb on a house or use a robot to kill an active shooter with a bomb,. as they did in dalas in two thousand 16or use lethal force against an artistic man having a mental health crisis, as they did inaugusta, maine in october 20 21.
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