Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Do police and prisons keep us safe? Ayeisha is joined by Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper, research associate in sociology at the University of Greenwich and board member of the Monitoring Group By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 14 July 2020 At the end of June Keir Starmer said of Black Lives Matter protesters in an interview: “Nobody should be saying anything about defunding the police.” At the same time, the UK government announced four new prisons. Olympic athlete Bianca Williams has said she felt like “being black is a crime” after she was stopped and handcuffed by police while
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Weekly Economics Podcast: Do police and prisons keep us safe?
Ayeisha is joined by Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper, research associate in sociology at the University of Greenwich and board member of the Monitoring Group
14 July 2020
At the end of June Keir Starmer said of Black Lives Matter protesters in an interview: “Nobody should be saying anything about defunding the police.” At the same time, the UK government announced four new prisons. Olympic athlete Bianca Williams has said she felt like “being black is a crime” after she was stopped and handcuffed by police while driving in London. And last week it emerged that the Met police carried out 22,000 stop-and-searches on young Black men during lockdown.
Some campaigners, especially in the US, are talking about defunding the police. But what does that actually mean? Should campaigners be calling for it in the UK? And do police and prisons really keep us safe?
In this episode Ayeisha is joined by Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper, research associate in sociology at the University of Greenwich and board member of the Monitoring Group.
References:
- Read “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Y. Davis theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel…sons-obsolete
- Find out more about Black Visions Collective www.blackvisionsmn.org/
- Read the report “Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools” by Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury www.runnymedetrust.org/projects-and-…-schools.html
- Find out more about United Family and Friends Campaign uffcampaign.org/
- Visit Community Actions on Prison Expansion’s website for more info cape-campaign.org/
- Go to movementforjustice.co.uk/ for more on Movement for Justice
- You can learn more about JENGbA’s work at jointenterprise.co/
- Cradle Community are fundraising for healing and transformative justice work in the UK. If you donate, you can get an abolitionist package including their new zine “how to be an abolitionist today”. More info here www.instagram.com/p/CCa1VtVhZXK/?i…hid=hgtrn7bhwlc4
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