Superheroes and the Police

What do you do when the authorities have been compromised?

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Bibliography and Further Reading

More general information about abolishing the police: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/abolish-police-instead-lets-have-full-social-economic-and-political-equality/ Still don’t think the police need replacing? Consider this report from the inside: https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759 Think prison is necessary? Here’s some information about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html PBS Newshour article on how white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement?fbclid=IwAR36X2ZT3-B499frCjRcHXraTK1kaLmOhUx31T0uYH5oObim_Vo3f2i96iE New Republic article about police taking the side of white supremacists: https://newrepublic.com/article/157981/police-take-side-white-vigilantes?fbclid=IwAR2omP9SMnAqJTv1Fzi8vI7o1OhIzRUgA5X4Mo2JqtP_dPVJgo1QsS8OizA Report on how trying to file a complaint about the police will get you followed and harassed (at least in Florida): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ5f1JMKns&feature=youtu.be How riots can lead to social change: https://www.vox.com/2015/4/30/8518681/protests-riots-work Actual Context episode 1 about the police’s unhealthy obsession with the Punisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcrxePK1sno Some More News’ piece about how the police are trained to murder you: https://youtu.be/tuzQrbio2Qw Compilation of police brutality during the protests: https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266917228752056320 Officers talking about calling in sick in solidarity with officer who beat a student with a baton: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-temple-student-joseph-bologna-protest-20200605.html?__vfz=medium%25253Dsharebar Officers cheering for the Buffalo officers who pushed down an old man at their court hearing: https://mobile.twitter.com/Acyn/status/1269322620316442625 How Adrien Schoolcraft reported his fellow police and was harassed and forcibly committed for his trouble. It was only because he taped his superiors discussing their crimes that he was believed. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/nyregion/officer-who-disclosed-police-misconduct-settles-suit.html New York Times article about defunding the police: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/george-floyd-police-funding.html The Guardian article on how the implicit bias and de-escalation training in Minneapolis did not work: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/31/the-answer-to-police-violence-is-not-reform-its-defunding-heres-why The End of Policing, now a free ebook from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing How Dallas has been dispatching social workers to some 911 calls: https://www.lightworkers.com/dallas-dispatching-social-workers-to-some-911-calls/