The Killer Inside Me is a brilliant and frightening book. I used to teach it in a college course called Heroes and Villains, and even when I warned the students what was coming, it always made a serious impact. I went through a heavy Jim Thompson period many years ago, and still have all of his books. Savage Night was the one that got me the most.
An aside: I continue to marvel that the basic message of Black Lives Matter--"Stop killing us"-- has broken so many brains. It's almost like to concede to BLM would violate the Constitution or something. (Un-ratified 28th Amendment: "Black life may be criminalized, and blacks may be hunted for sport, within the United States and the territories under its jurisdiction.")
My sympathies to Roy for putting himself through such thought processes as needed to right this post. The huge amount of toxic(!) bullshit at the foundation of the post made it difficult to read.
But all these chiefs and police commissioners quitting are, for me, proof of how small c corrupt far too many police departments are. To put it in Blue Lives Matter lingo, the few bad apples are in control. I suppose it makes sense: Can't or won't do what's needed to be done because, well, police forces are essentially lawless.
But have a thought experiment: If police forces were defunded 50%, such a reduction would result in what exactly?
During my years in Rochester (yeah, seems like I’ve lived in every infamous part of America), there was the Attica prison uprising, violently ended by state police. All the reports of inmates killing each other, guards and cops screeched to a halt when the medical examiner in Rochester emerged from around the clock autopsies to announce that all the deaths were caused by state police bullets. Forget history, doomed to repeat, and all that.
Police are a construct of the industrial age and the need by capital to suppress and control the labor pool. They aren't needed at all outside that context. They are occupiers and are justly hated by the people who are the targets of their oppression.
Restorative justice for a free citizenry treated with dignity.
Golly, Roy, whatever happened to Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina (what a guy) and how come 30% (non-white) of the population don't make it on to the show?
The Killer Inside Me is a brilliant and frightening book. I used to teach it in a college course called Heroes and Villains, and even when I warned the students what was coming, it always made a serious impact. I went through a heavy Jim Thompson period many years ago, and still have all of his books. Savage Night was the one that got me the most.
As the late Leonard Cohen said before he found rest at last: "You want it dark"
An aside: I continue to marvel that the basic message of Black Lives Matter--"Stop killing us"-- has broken so many brains. It's almost like to concede to BLM would violate the Constitution or something. (Un-ratified 28th Amendment: "Black life may be criminalized, and blacks may be hunted for sport, within the United States and the territories under its jurisdiction.")
My sympathies to Roy for putting himself through such thought processes as needed to right this post. The huge amount of toxic(!) bullshit at the foundation of the post made it difficult to read.
But all these chiefs and police commissioners quitting are, for me, proof of how small c corrupt far too many police departments are. To put it in Blue Lives Matter lingo, the few bad apples are in control. I suppose it makes sense: Can't or won't do what's needed to be done because, well, police forces are essentially lawless.
But have a thought experiment: If police forces were defunded 50%, such a reduction would result in what exactly?
During my years in Rochester (yeah, seems like I’ve lived in every infamous part of America), there was the Attica prison uprising, violently ended by state police. All the reports of inmates killing each other, guards and cops screeched to a halt when the medical examiner in Rochester emerged from around the clock autopsies to announce that all the deaths were caused by state police bullets. Forget history, doomed to repeat, and all that.
Like the first part of the 2d amendment, they ignore the law part of law and order.
De-militarizing the police is essential.
Police are a construct of the industrial age and the need by capital to suppress and control the labor pool. They aren't needed at all outside that context. They are occupiers and are justly hated by the people who are the targets of their oppression.
Restorative justice for a free citizenry treated with dignity.
http://restorativejustice.org/
And fuck the police.
Golly, Roy, whatever happened to Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina (what a guy) and how come 30% (non-white) of the population don't make it on to the show?
Seems like a reasonable fellow! Allow me please to thank him for his service.