Collected Item: “Photos from Justice for Womxn Lost To State Violence protest”
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Photos from Justice for Womxn Lost To State Violence protest
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"Most rape and assault is never reported to law enforcement in the first place. Of the cases that are, less than 1 percent are referred to prosecutors, and even fewer result in convictions. There are currently hundreds of ongoing lawsuits against police departments across the country, alleging a culture of institutionalized negligence, antipathy, and outright hostility toward survivors. Beyond the structural violence endemic to policing, police themselves are four times more likely than the average person to be domestic abusers.
These things are often framed as proof that policing is “broken,” but that again accepts the premise of the police on their own terms. Gender-based violence enabled by and within the criminal legal system is by design, and it is inseparable from the way that “crime” itself is construed: racialized, atomized, and alienated from broader social problems.
Far from being protected, it’s under the guise of “fighting crime” that Black women, trans women, indigenous, undocumented, and poor women have been subjected to a system of violent policing that continually exposes them to gender-based harm at the same time as it hems them into the margins of society. This system is self-protecting—it conspires to conceal the means through which it reproduces and justifies itself, making it difficult to imagine an alternative." - Isabel Cristo, The New Republic
Photos from Justice for Womxn Lost To State Violence protest, July 18, 2020
These things are often framed as proof that policing is “broken,” but that again accepts the premise of the police on their own terms. Gender-based violence enabled by and within the criminal legal system is by design, and it is inseparable from the way that “crime” itself is construed: racialized, atomized, and alienated from broader social problems.
Far from being protected, it’s under the guise of “fighting crime” that Black women, trans women, indigenous, undocumented, and poor women have been subjected to a system of violent policing that continually exposes them to gender-based harm at the same time as it hems them into the margins of society. This system is self-protecting—it conspires to conceal the means through which it reproduces and justifies itself, making it difficult to imagine an alternative." - Isabel Cristo, The New Republic
Photos from Justice for Womxn Lost To State Violence protest, July 18, 2020
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rape, violence, assault, reporting, law enforcement, convictions, lawsuits, survivors, policing, domestic violence, gender-based violence, criminal legal system, crime racialized, Black women, trans women, indigenous, undocumented, poor, violent policing, Isabel Cristo, Social Justice, ASU, HST580
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3dvPEn-e8/
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Drew Arrieta @itsdrw
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2020-07-20