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Paul Bernardo, Robert Pickton and Bruce McArthur are not arguments against abolition of police or prison.
Every single one of those predators benefited from police prejudice: misogyny, racism, homophobia.
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Paul Bernardo, Robert Pickton and Bruce McArthur are not arguments against abolition of police or prison.
Every single one of those predators benefited from police prejudice: misogyny, racism, homophobia.
There are thousands upon thousands of MMIWG. Jailing Pickton has done absolutely nothing to change that.
The system that created - even encouraged - those 3 still exists. They are clear examples of how policing fails to keep us safe, and why we need new ideas of how to do that.
The system that created - even encouraged - those 3 still exists. They are clear examples of how policing fails to keep us safe, and why we need new ideas of how to do that.
I went to a Take Back the Night march before Bernardo was caught. Organizers did not want police involved, but police insisted on "leading" us. So we sat on the street chanting "Go catch the Scarborough Rapist!"
A foundational experience for a brown teen girl from Scarb.
A foundational experience for a brown teen girl from Scarb.
Other women make me feel safe. Not police, and not prisons.
If three jailed predators makes you feel safe, so safe that it's worth police violence and racist incarceration, you weren't actually afraid in the first place.
If three jailed predators makes you feel safe, so safe that it's worth police violence and racist incarceration, you weren't actually afraid in the first place.
