Met Police Given “Two Thumbs Up” by Met Police (feat. Leslie Kern)
We sat down with Leslie Kern (@LellyK)--feminist geographer, academic, and author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World--to discuss what it means that "a feminist city is a police free city," in the wake of a slew of misogynistic, racist, and otherwise generally brutal actions attributed to London's finest. First, though, we take a look with some satisfaction at Deliveroo's shoddy IPO performance.
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One of my friend's parents works within the NHS as part of a team aiming to break the cycle of sexual violence. The clinical psychologists work with patients who are worried they are at risk of offending, or directly with patients who are currently incacerated. People who suffered from sexual abuse in their childhood often go on to be offenders when they are older, continuing the cycle. By the point they are prosecuted, it is too late, the trauma caused to the victim puts them at increased risk of offending, therefore continuing the cycle. She is campaigning for expansion of the service to the wider public and why we need to see crime as a complex web of interconnected issues, with push and pull factors. Personally, I don't see a society without police. But policing should be an incidental tool in a much larger toolkit in reducing the number of victims of crime, that should include Forensic Psychology, Drug Decriminalisation/Legalisation, Creating safer roads that discourage dangerous driving, Expanded Mental Health services, social safety nets, education and opportunities, especially in poor areas. Without addressing these issues, the forever-war continues, with no end in sight.
Here in Toronto the police force was formed from gangs of Orangemen tasked with terrorizing Irish Catholics.
I’m glad you brought up the fact that racist reactionaries have always justified their racism and sexism by claiming that they’re just defending (white) women from Bad, “Other” (wink nudge) men. The cops are just doing the classic white supremacist move that was the justification for lynching and is incidentally, an obsession for literal Nazis (14 words, etc.).
Reminder: ACAB
That twitter guy clearly has NO IDEA how much Bristol would love if the Police just abandoned the place, because we would set that shit up into a commune in the space of a few weeks. It would just be the meme with the ultra advanced sci-fi city that says, "World without police". There would be Anarchist gardening on every bloody rooftop with dub playing the distance. Might be the one good thing that's happened in a long time 😆 Edit: Funnily enough, there's literally a guy who's a regular customer in my shop where I work, who is a volunteer cop. He's got the uniform, bald Bazza head and everything. It's only a little awkward because he's presumably crippled and has to walk with a crutch all the time. He's nice, but I worry to ask what his opinions on policing would be. So yeah, that type of guy is already out there, just waiting to be summoned to do the owner class' bidding. Thought I'd share.
Is there a feminist take on Cycle lanes? Also jay walking was pushed into law by car companies trying to put blame for their inventions killing people onto the victims.