Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition (Part 1)
The Intercept Briefing
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Why Aren't Abolitionists Talking About Crime?
Attorney general william barr recently commented that he thinks calls to defund the police and reduce police budgets are dangerous. I asked ruthe to talk about some of the weaknesses of the most popular explanations for the relentless expansion of the carcoral state. He said: "The main reason that abolitionists in the movement don't use the word crime in a straightforward way is that it's not a straightforward category what gets lumped into that word"
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