working class

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>At 1:49 PM +0000 6/30/02, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>Besides, cops are necessary. I have been busy drafting opinions denying 
>>the habeas petitions of leaders of the Gangster Disciples, a 6,000 strong 
>>Chicago drug gang on the South Side that had $100,000,000 a year business 
>>in the 90s, and ruled through fear, murder, intimidation, and torture. 
>>These are _really_ bad guys.
>
>How to deal with drug gangs?  More cops on the street or drug 
>decriminalization?
>
>There are instances where cops could play useful roles in theory (e.g., 
>combatting violence against women), but under capitalism and sexist 
>oppression, cops are more a problem than a solution even when they should 
>be theoretically useful (e.g., cops themselves have a higher rate of 
>domestic violence than the rest of the population do).

I support decriminalization of most drugs, but I don't believe we'd have a 
better society without the police--drugs are a major but not the only source 
of crime--and I think they'd be needed, though perhaps fewer of them, under 
socialism.

jks

jks

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