Maya Schenwar
Autor von Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
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Maya Schenwar is Editor-in-Chief of Truth out. She has written about the prison-industrial complex for Truthout, the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Jersey Star-Ledger, and others and is the recipient of a Sigma Delta Chi Award for her writing on prisons.
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (2016) — Herausgeber — 160 Exemplare
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Its critical flaws are similar to Alexanders' own: it has a near laser focus on race as the root cause. Where this book gains the extra star above Alexander's book is that key word "near". Schenwar and Law do a commendable job of listing other leading causes of these issues - chiefly, being poor no matter the color of your skin - even while most often listing race as the most common cause. At that point, I'm more willing to call six of one/ half a dozen of the other, it is so well balanced here.
But arguably the biggest flaw of the book is that even while constantly preaching about the perils of government control systems, it still manages to advocate for *more*... government control systems, simply targeting other people. Even as it preaches community and alternatives to police, prison, and the various systems described in the book, it still ultimately demands ever more government programs rather than the true community Schenwar and Law claim to want. Rather than praising Anarchy and demanding a complete overthrow of the very government systems that cause the very problems they so accurately describe, they ultimately choose to love Big Brother even while asking him to be a little bit nicer.
And just as this ending is the ultimate tragedy of Orwell's 1984, so too it is the ultimate tragedy of this otherwise stupendous polemic. Recommended.… (mehr)