I'm just so tired of these bad faith bullshit questions. We are already living in a world filled with killer cops who will never see the inside of a prison. Locking one up to appease the masses won't make anyone safer and that's what we're looking for. A world where we're safer. https://twitter.com/iamJxWoods/status/1385242191182778371

There are countless ways to hold people accountable, to encourage accountability. One very simple solution for cops, for anyone who works in a carceral system from policing to prisons to child welfare to mental health, is personal liability insurance. Make them accountable.

There were so many complaints against Chauvin that he would have been uninsurable very quickly and not in a position to carry a gun or otherwise participate in state sanctioned violence.

Here's a newsflash. Y'all so worried about the rapists and whatnot roaming the streets. Do yourself a google of the number of rapes vs the number of rapes reported. Then look up the ones who are actually charged. Then look at the ones who are actually convicted.

They are already roaming the streets. Policing not only does not keep us safe from them but it actively shields rapists, not us. The burden of proof required of victims puts us on the witness stand and sexual assault becomes he said/she said and *poof*

So do not come at me with how prison keeps us safe from rapists. No.

And if you are so concerned about rapists why would you send people to prison anyway? Why would you send people to rape factories? Because they did something you think means they deserve it?

What are your criteria for deciding who deserves to go to a rape factory? Murder?

Like Cyntoia Brown who went to jail for murder because she did do the murder.

Oh, her context is different? Self defense? What criteria will you set up and we already have that btw.

or maybe sexual assault?

Like Tiffany Rusher, the sex worker who was charged with sexual assault after being hired for a birthday present for a young man who was underage. Because I can tell you that net catches a lot of people. Not the ones you worry about tho.

Abolition is not just because the innocent get caught up in it but because we all get caught up in it and innocence and guilt are manufactured concepts.

What should we do with the cops who watched and did not turn Chauvin in? They still walking around with badges and guns.

Abolition allows for accountability in contrast to a world where people are actively discouraged from taking accountability, from admitting wrongdoing. Unless you are poor and have a public defender who has too many cases and tells you to plead out even if you didn't do it.

So few of the violent people you are so worried about will ever see the inside of a prison anyway.

And I haven't even started talking about the violence of the system itself. That's a whole other thread.

I wrote this piece about abolishing borders and prisons, reflecting on two great books that you need in your life and by in your life I mean order them now and read them. https://rampantmag.com/2021/04/a-broadened-sense-of-abolition/