What would “police reform” really amount to under the American System of savage race and class disparity and apartheid? As the number of people killed by US police forces continues to rise and averages over eleven hundred per year, the victims disproportionately Black and nonwhite, and as tens of millions of Black Americans are still penned up in hyper-segregated ghettoes and prisons of despair, it’s long past time to admit that US police are acting precisely in accord with their systemic job description when they gun down young Black people. As the Memphis incident suggests, moreover, the job description applies even when the police themselves are Black. The job is to inflict terror in defense of ferocious race-class apartheid and racist mass incarceration and criminal branding – in service and protection of a system that provides little opportunity for a decent life for masses of young Black people. More
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