Archives for July 2012

Protect and Serve

A short entry today following on this piece by Glenn Ford at BAR. http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/stop-and-frisk-goes-frisco The police are there to protect property. Their second mission is to exercise control on the poor. What that means in large measure, is to control black and brown skinned people...the racial dimension cannot be overlooked. Statistics bear this out if one looks at exactly 'who' is in prison. There is another trend at work in the US (and to a lesser degree in parts of Europe) and that is the blurring of the military with the police. The third trend is the privitization of both the police, the military, and the prison industry. In the 1960's the … [Read more...]