Death and Police Opportunism at Occupy Oakland
Submitted on November 12, 2011
By MIKE KING - November 11-13, 2011
The State...uses acts of violence as a means to increase its own power while rarely having any measurable effect on violent crime or accountability to the communities it controls. People are not protected, violence increases, and services get cut to fund more police. The police have the power to command resources...without any accountability for police profiling and violence, or even with respect to the basic effectiveness of their strategies for diminishing crime. This is normalized in our culture without very many people asking why.
