HeavenlyPossumMar 6

As an anarchist, I often hear questions about how, exactly, we would stay safe in a world full of rapists and murderers without the state’s protective monopoly over violence.

So I often have to remind people that not only does the state often decline to protect people facing harm…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/05/queensland-police-kelly-wilkinson-turned-away-murder-inquest-ntwnfb#:~:text=Kelly%20Wilkinson%20was%20turned%20away,2021%2C%20an%20inquest%20has%20heard.

Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears

Wilkinson was turned away by police while seeking help four days before she was murdered, Queensland coroner’s court told

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Uvalde proved once and for all, cops are worse than useless. they're in the way.

My wife of 41 years is a Jew. She once called the SFPD hate crime hotline to report an antisemitic death threat. It went to voicemail 17 times. The *never* responded.

See also:

https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/115361986670025712

Mar 6 at 7:43pmWeb