The full text of the Kerner Report: https://archive.org/stream/kernerreportrevi00asse/kernerreportrevi00asse_djvu.txt
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:10 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife's father was a member of that Commission. He was an attorney and > a lifelong Chicagoan. > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 8:45 PM Merle Lefkoff <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think I wrote to the list earlier that I dredged up the Kerner Report >> last week--1968, and I suggest you all read it. >> http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/kerner.pdf >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:58 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Glen - >>> >>> I know you weren't pulling our leg (or my finger). >>> >>> This was the post I was composing when the tone deaf joke formed and >>> escaped: >>> >>> My "intellectual" interest is in how self-organizing principles and >>> emergence operate in social contexts... on both sides of the debate here, >>> as is being alluded to here already. When Law Enforcement gets >>> significantly defunded, what fills the vacuum left by that? There are >>> lots of *other* vacuums/rifts/holes being formed as our culture heaves and >>> buckles a little under a series of shifts. I'm not sure what (if any) are >>> root causes and what are just cascades and reactions. Globalism, >>> NeoLiberalism, Authoritarinism, Fascism, Manic Hypercaptialism, Rapid >>> Technological Change, Hyper Connectedness, Information Overload, etc. >>> >>> Many believe that shifting funding from law enforcement (which is by >>> definition more reactionary than preventative?) to mental and social >>> services which are intended to be more strongly pro-active in preventing >>> the kinds of problems that the police often have to remediate down the >>> road, is a net gain and possibly something that could be effected very >>> quickly, even if positive results may lag in many cases. I don't know how >>> well that works for/with hardened criminals who've already been taken from >>> being under-nourished, under-respected, under-opportunitied youth through >>> a series of trainings as a gang member first on the streets, and then >>> inside prison for several stints, annealed and tempered by police, judges, >>> prison-guards and one's fellow travelers to a strong core with a >>> wicked-sharp edge. But maybe if her mother and younger siblings aren't >>> struggling to keep groceries in the fridge and the fridge running then >>> maybe she can mature into something a little kinder-gentler. Or maybe she >>> already has, but it is hard to recognize when the only interface she has is >>> a regular stop-and-frisking? I think we do see a record of mellowing among >>> aging hard-cores who survive long enough to become elders in their >>> communities? >>> >>> I think Jon?s suggestion that private security will fill the vacuum is >>> also valid. More people will gate their communities and more gated >>> communities will add uniformed patrols and more uniformed patrols will add >>> lethal weapons and training. The next George Floyd might be your massage >>> therapist who made the mistake of making house-calls to your gated >>> community while black/brown/yellow/red/poor and the next Chauvin & Co will >>> be guys who couldn't even get IN to the police academy but COULD buy >>> mirror-shades, a loaded up batman utility belt, matching chromed .45s with >>> shoulder holsters, an Armalite 15 and a riot-style shotgun (but not rubber >>> nor armor-piercing rounds, those are for law-enforcement-only) to carry in >>> their ominously painted and hopped up SUV with run flat tires, a >>> push-bumper, blinky lights and a siren. And that tricked out rig, >>> security "professional" included, will cost a fraction of what a *real* law >>> enforcement officer would BECAUSE of the lack of >>> oversight/training/benefits, etc. A new branch: UBERArmed? >>> >>> The above is mildy (but not entirely) the maunderings of a >>> frustrated/unexpressed cyberpunk novelist (me)... but oddly not that far >>> away in "some Adjacent Possible"? >>> >>> Personally, I'm more interested in how to use this Svaha/Liminal moment >>> to "Visualize World Peace"? And what is in *that* adjacent possible >>> (ensemble)? There is value to a Red-Team/Blue-Team analysis in these >>> situations, and I think *both* are necessary. Awfulizing isn't the only >>> thing to be doing right now. Things are shifting, vacuums are created, >>> playing-fields are being re-leveled... are there opportunities to "do the >>> right thing", or is "the right thing" so subjective that we will simply >>> "move the noise around"? I identify as a humanist... I don't even know if >>> that means what it used to (to others) or if I'm in anything like a "silent >>> majority" in that identification. Maybe the Anarchists and Libertarians >>> and Radical Progressives and Radical Conservatives and ??? all think THEY >>> are humanists. Or maybe it's a bad word to them? I certainly remember >>> my self-righteous Catholic M-in-Law spitting the words "*Secular >>> Humanist*" as if they were acid, leaving smoking, corroding spots >>> everywhere they landed. >>> >>> - Steve >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6/10/20 11:17 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: >>> >>> We have evidence of it, here: >>> >>> Olympia police unions respond to photo of officer posing with armed >>> menhttps://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article243401061.html >>> >>> FWIW, I think our mayor is wrong. The 3% sign isn't the OK sign, regardless >>> of whether any supremacists actually use the OK sign or not. But like any >>> tone deaf marketing message, if the symbol you adopt is *thought* to be a >>> racist symbol, then you should go ahead and change it. Just stop flying the >>> confederate flag even if it's been on your state flag for your whole life >>> ... just stop using the swastika even if you're (East) Indian or Native >>> American. >>> >>> But what does lend truth to the accusations leveled against the 3% is the >>> lack of a public statement condemning Trump for violating the constitution >>> in clearing St John's. If they exist to use their piddly little guns to >>> protect us from the government, where were they then? Perhaps they are only >>> interested in protecting a particular class of people? ... or only people >>> with whom they agree politically? >>> >>> As for the cop in the photo, she should at least be suspended for her >>> stupid mistake. Don't pose with with a bunch of dudes standing in a parking >>> lot with guns. That's simply a stupid thing for a cop (or any professional) >>> to do. And if you must do it, take off your uniform first. >>> >>> >>> On 6/10/20 9:51 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>> >>> I think the point is that are already not accountable. Protected by >>> unions and colleagues who will look the other way, and a culture that >>> accepts that certain people must consent to miserable lives. >>> >>> >>> On 6/10/20, 9:48 AM, "Friam on behalf of Prof David West" >>> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> >>> <[email protected][email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> downside is the private militias that Jon mentioned. just like the >>> military that replaces soldiers with private contractors - to whom are the >>> latter accountable? >>> On 6/9/20 4:28 PM, Jon Zingale wrote: >>> >>> 1. Will the efforts to defund the police eventually meet with efforts >>> to build private militias? Will the future of policing in this country >>> follow a path similar to the shift from public to private postal service? >>> If so, what will accountability be? >>> >>> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> >> >> >> -- >> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. >> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy >> emergentdiplomacy.org >> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA >> [email protected] <[email protected]> >> mobile: (303) 859-5609 >> skype: merle.lelfkoff2 >> twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > > > -- > Frank Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > 505 670-9918 > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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