This is so critical to keep in mind as part of debates on policing and more 'street-level' police: the mere fact of a police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote.
Just one more way communities are pushed away from politics & shaping policy.
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. & builds on past research on how contact with criminal legal system pushes ppl away from participation, showing that's true of even supposedly 'routine' interactions.
"A vicious vicious feedback loop of political withdrawal."
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I mean, when they remind us that we are not, in fact, citizens, but subjects..
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Fascism is about the intimidation of the majority to protect minority rule.
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This is so critical to keep in mind as part of debates on policing and more 'street-level' police: the mere fact of a police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote.
Just one more way communities are pushed away from politics & shaping policy.
boltsmag.org/a-police-stop-
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