![]() ![]() ![]() This should not be surprising given the ways incarceration exacerbates both structural causes of violence such as neighborhood-level inequity, as well as individual drivers such as shame, isolation, exposure to violence, and economic disenfranchisement. But policing and prisons have never delivered safety-particularly not for Black people and people of color-and they never will. We do this despite policing’s myopic and debilitating focus on individual wrongdoing devoid from its structural and historical context. We do this even though incarceration has been demonstrated to have criminogenic effects-meaning it can make people likelier, rather than less likely, to commit further harm. We do this even though policing has an unbroken history of perpetuating and enforcing racial inequity and generating harm ranging from fatal violence to a generalized environment of hostility, enmity, and fear. We need to learn from and invest in them.Īs a country the United States deals with violence through policing and punishment, typically in the form of incarceration. ![]() Effective responses to violence-preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal-already exist. ![]()
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