Photo by Essence Harden. Courtesy of the Archives of Southern California Library.
As recent events in the United States, Canada and elsewhere demonstrate, society has a cop problem. Police forces everywhere act as if they are above the law—they lie to justify their actions, they disproportionately target Black and Indigenous peoples, and they seem to care more about protecting property than people.
Interestingly, this is also a description of imperialist foreign policy. The experience of people from the Congo, Haiti, Algeria, Guatemala, El Salvador, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, Angola, Brazil, Ghana and dozens of other countries trying to establish economic and political …read more
Source:: Canadian Dimension
