“A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating.” WayTryingMindChildrenNumbersGrowing UpGrowingSolutionsArmyPoliceVariousInventionExpensiveReportsStringsPuppetsLarge NumbersDeviants Author:John Taylor Gatto
“There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color...We must fight back.” PeopleMenBelieveChildrenYoungFightingJusticePovertyGrowingColorDignityHarderDiedPoliceYoung ManHeelsWornReservedCustody Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.” WantKidsNightSidesGrowing UpGrowingGrewProjectsGrew UpLonelyPoliceScaredEvery NightSirensLonely Nights Author:LeBron James
“Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.” LeftJusticeSupportGrowingMassPoliceCriminalsReformPolice BrutalityBrutalityCriminal JusticeIncarcerationMass Incarceration Author:Ralph Nader
“Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are sent the message in countless ways that they, too, are going to prison one way or another. We cannot build healthy, functioning schools within a context where there is no funding available because it's going to building prisons and police forces.” WayKidsSchoolForceCommunityGrowing UpGrowingBuildingHealthyMessagesPolicePrisonAvailableOne WayLoved OnesFundingCyclingPolice Force Author:Michelle Alexander
“When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.” IfsRunningGrowing UpSawsGrowingStreetsExercisePoliceRaisedQuartersRoyalNew OrleansFrench Quarter Author:Richard Simmons
“In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.” HumansFactsEasyNumbersGrowingIndustryInternetTasksPoliceChinaLocalsPursueDataFirmAllowingProfitableSurveillancePresentingFormat Author:Evgeny Morozov
“Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.” FormLawFightingBeliefEnergyGrowingCrimeBattleDrugActivityLosingIncreasePoliceCourtBlowStrikesRelatedDevotedLaw EnforcementEnforcementEmphasisSeriousnessFacilityPreventionCannabisEfficacy Author:Milton Friedman