""Trump is at the point where he wants to make [up] numbers and he wants to show like, yeah, D.C. is full of crime.""
""Police cannot prevent crime - they can only arrest people suspected of committing crimes after they take place.""
""predominantly Black neighborhoods are simultaneously over-policed when it comes to surveillance and social control, and under-policed when it comes to emergency services.""
Deployment of the National Guard and immigration enforcement agents to Washington, D.C., and threats of similar deployments to Chicago provoked large-scale protests and organizing. Black activists with long histories of opposing policing are leading resistance efforts in both cities. Organizers such as NeeNee Taylor co-founded abolitionist community defense hubs and projects focused on resisting federal police and the National Guard. Police capacity is framed as reactive rather than preventive; elected officials often deploy police as purported solutions to crimes. A Tufts University researcher found predominantly Black neighborhoods are over-policed for surveillance and under-policed for emergency services.
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