More real idpol views

  I am ok with Alvin Bragg not prosecuting low level offenses. But he should be consistent with not prosecuting low level offenses and the media should make it clear toeveryone that he isn’t going to prosecute low level offenses

We should challenge all violence including violence by police . But their violence and corruption are not not simply a reflection of poor oversight or the presence in police agencies of “a few bad apples” It is instead a reflection of the structural positions of such agencies as guarantors of state power and of the lack of accountability created both by the existence of substantial de facto differences in standards for the use of force by police officers and others and by the monopolistic status of police agencies. left lib bhl blog g chartier.