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Breaking the law: How the state weaponizes an unjust criminal justice system
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
The overpolicing and overincarceration of racial communities is a critical point. It is the state that is “othering” a segment of the population. The criminal justice system provides an official government imprimatur that this group of people – “they,” the “accused” – are not like you. The message that is being sent is that they deserve less, are not to be trusted, must be corralled, segregated, stopped and removed from “civil” society. How else are we to be safe?
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living
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