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Alex Vitale

@avitale

Author of The End of Policing.
Prof. of Sociology at Brooklyn College & CUNY-GC and Coordinator of @PolicingJ.

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For nearly 2 decades, a loose band of of sheriff’s deputies in central Mississippi “barged into homes in the middle of the night, held [people] at gunpoint & tortured them into confessing or providing information.”

Some called themselves the “Goon Squad”
mississippitoday.org/2023/11/30/ran…

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Just finished this excellent intervention by Elena Shih. Anti-trafficking/rescue NGO's are Christian front groups more concerned about controlling our sex lives and propping up capitalism than ending labor exploitation.

Just finished this excellent intervention by @uhlenna. Anti-trafficking/rescue NGO's are Christian front groups more concerned about controlling our sex lives and propping up capitalism than ending labor exploitation.
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Rally today at 9am at City Hall Park with the NYC Council Progressive Caucus

The People’s Plan Rally against the Mayor’s Budget Cuts

>>psc-cuny.org/calendar/nyc-c…<<

Rally today at 9am at City Hall Park with the NYC Council Progressive Caucus The People’s Plan Rally against the Mayor’s Budget Cuts >>psc-cuny.org/calendar/nyc-c…<<
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National Retail Federation report last spring: “‘organized retail crime’ was responsible for half the $94.5B in store merchandise” stolen. I fell for it. In fact: about 5%. And “in most major cities, shoplifting incidents have fallen 7% since 2019.”

Hugely important retraction.

National Retail Federation report last spring: “‘organized retail crime’ was responsible for half the $94.5B in store merchandise” stolen. I fell for it. In fact: about 5%. And “in most major cities, shoplifting incidents have fallen 7% since 2019.” Hugely important retraction.
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Today, the 44th person this year died in Los Angeles jails.

This one -- a 74 year old woman -- died in a cell in the same part of the jail as Amanda Bews, the woman I wrote about a few days ago: latimes.com/california/sto…

Today, the 44th person this year died in Los Angeles jails. This one -- a 74 year old woman -- died in a cell in the same part of the jail as Amanda Bews, the woman I wrote about a few days ago: latimes.com/california/sto…
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Super important pushback against the deeply conservative weaponizing of 'gold standard research' by police and carceral apologists.

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“I regret not doing more of the killing myself. It’s one thing to order troops to do it, but it’s quite another to do it with your bare hands.” — Henry Kissinger bit.ly/3uOXBQO

“I regret not doing more of the killing myself. It’s one thing to order troops to do it, but it’s quite another to do it with your bare hands.” — Henry Kissinger bit.ly/3uOXBQO
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This is exactly the kind of thing I warned about when Arnold Ventures hired Doleac. Read my open letter below.

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Alec Karakatsanis(@equalityAlec) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I get why people think this way, but this perspective ignores the profound costs of a total information awareness society--the surveillance state Orwell warned about in 1984--and ignores that we know it's much more realistic to reduce violence through non-repressive investments.

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