Care and Carceralism
Disentangling medical care from policing, prisons, and other punitive institutions remains an imperative—now more than ever.
17 posts in ‘policing’
Disentangling medical care from policing, prisons, and other punitive institutions remains an imperative—now more than ever.
For many immigrant families, even driving to school or the doctor risks a dangerous encounter with the punitive state.
Ending qualified immunity won’t solve police violence. But making officers feel the sting of their actions in court can get us a step closer to ending it.
Mexicans and Mexican Americans have long been targets of legal and extralegal violence by the police. Learning this history is a step toward ending abuses that persist to this day.
Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
For decades, policing so-called ‘quality of life’ issues has had devastating effects. This approach must cease to exist.
The surprising link between Medicaid expansion and arrests levels suggests that keeping people healthy also keeps them from the reach of the criminal legal system.
To stay true to their professed values, social workers must wholly disavow and remove themselves from systems of harm.
Mental health professionals call the police, work with the police, and act like the police. But even in our ranks, an abolitionist future is possible.
Law enforcement of women’s bodies is a structural and systematic form of police violence. All of us are less safe if we don’t end this brutal expression of state-sanctioned power.
How a committed critical race theorist on the bench might have written one of the worst Fourth Amendment cases in history.
We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are isolated.
How e-carceration grabbed a hold of Camden is a cautionary tale for those of us who envision a future without policing.
Emboldened reactionaries tried to get voters to super-fund our city’s police force. But we out-organized them, and they lost badly. Here’s how we did it.
How pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars — and Black folks into criminals.
Shifting the narrative and policies on gun violence to include killings by police may spare many families from the pain of losing loved ones.