Turning Death into a Commodity
ShotSpotter has leveraged gun violence into a multimillion-dollar business that promises safety but delivers only increased policing and drain on the public’s resources.
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ShotSpotter has leveraged gun violence into a multimillion-dollar business that promises safety but delivers only increased policing and drain on the public’s resources.
The deification of whiteness and property has long legitimized the containment of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized peoples.
What does genuine safety look like? And what will it take to prioritize it rather than simply managing inequality and other injustices?
Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
Beyond electing progressive prosecutors, decarceration requires an ambitious, multifaceted struggle at all levels of governance.
Sex offender registries don’t make us any safer. Abolishing them would.
Our movement was born out of our shared grief. Our voices reminded voters that the police should never police themselves.
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.