This is an underappreciated point. Police violence is worse where gun violence is worse. Our abject failure to prevent and prosecute traffickers results in higher homicide rates - and more police violence. This is how structural racism works. Our laws fail the most vulnerable.https://twitter.com/teamtrace/status/1274009254010241025 …
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Seems like rise of militaristic police coincided with rise of militarized military cosplay public. Simply can't remember any time in my life when heavily armed civilians tromped around capitol buildings as if it were "normal".
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It was fed by excess spending as Reagan ramped up the coldwar military budgets. Equipment surpluses were unloaded onto civilian law enforcement and justified with fighting “gang violence” - racist dogwhistle that has always been a tiny minority of gun deaths.
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1000 police killings annually in America dwarfs the rates from all other modern countries, but we often neglect the fact that we live in the most well-armed nation in the western world, so deaths will inherently be higher & cops will be (reasonably) more vigilant about threats.
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No. No. No. Nothing about this is reasonable. We have normalized constant escalation of weaponry and militarization to the point our peers in this regard are the Central African Republic, Congo, Iran and Iraq - and that is knowing we *underestimate* these deaths
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