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The LA riots required nearly ten thousand federal troops to end. The alternative to reforming police brutality is ever escalating violence. Eventually law enfo
by nimbius 4y ago
The LA riots required nearly ten thousand federal troops to end. The alternative to reforming police brutality is ever escalating violence. Eventually law enforcement dissolves entirely as all cops become targets. This happened during the LA riots; cops just didnt come to work. The LA riots weren't only about Rodney king. Food deserts, targeting, and grinding inequality and poverty in Compton, universal, Inglewood, and other historically black cities had become unsustainable. They had no recourse.
No cop can solve poverty.
Cops don't prevent crime, and cops don't prevent drug addiction. These are features of american capitalism that have been made the sole purvey of an ever dwindling national police force. They are the department of last resort for a nation that thinks you can fight drugs like a war.
- boringg 4y agoFocus your argument. It isn't capitalism, policing is almost an issue in all systems. This anti capitalist sentiment is really trying to creep into every single vein of discourse.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoIt’s capital and state. Hence the anarchist viewpoint being more relevant here than being anti one and pro the other or saying it's capitalism and getting "but it's the state too"
- komali2 4y agoFocusing to the point of tunnel vision is what we're trying to avoid. Stay too focused and you don't have room to ask why our jails are essentially revolving door state housing for the homeless. The usa is absolutely in a predictable phase of late stage capitalism. You don't have to be a communist to consider this, rigid critique of system is how you improve systems.
- nimbius 4y agoPay closer attention. this is american capitalism, the implementation undertaken by the US itself as is relevant to the stories locale. it is not the definition itself.
- boringg 4y agoMy argument is that drugs and crime aren't a feature of American capitalism. They are a feature of all systems - capitalist, communist, market-communism or socialism. My argument is bringing in the economic system in this case adds little to your comment but continues to try and blame all problems on capitalism or in this case "American-capitalism" the scape goat du jour.
- steve76 4y ago[dead]