The essay "Everyone Hates the Police" rings the most controversial and "edgy" to me, but the parallels between America's hyper-legalistic and highly aggressive policing and France's equivalent experience are compelling. America has many small towns and small-scale police traditions, sheriffs, for instance, and this points to another model. But it does seem like police forces, once they grow to the size of the LAPD or NYPD, other traits become predominant. With the BLM vs Police events in recent memory, the events and groups referred here are new to me, but it seems like French people "took to the streets" under more erudition or composure than America's "wildings" versus the MRAP sound cannons. Maybe this is my own Paris Syndrome, however.
>Maintaining order is the main activity of an order that has already failed. One only has to go to the CAF, the family assistance fund, to take stock of things that cannot last. When an agency as benign as that must surround itself with guards, ploys, and threats to defend itself from its clients, one realizes that a certain rationality has come to an end. When the orderliness of demonstrations now can no longer be assured except by means of sting-ball grenades and kettlings, and the demonstrators are forced to fee the green lasers of the Anti-Crime Brigade’s LBD 40s, targeting its future victims, this is an indication that “society” has already reached the stage of palliative treatment. When the calm of the banlieues comes at the cost of arming the CRS with automatic rifes, we know that a certain fgure of the world has faded. It’s never a good sign when a democratic regime takes up the habit of having its population fred upon. Since the time when politics started to be reduced, in every domain, to a vast police operation conducted day after day, it was inevitable that policing would become a political question.
"Now" by the Invisible Committee thread, Part II
>What the powers-that-be could not understand is that the loss of every hope also forms the precondition for pure revolt—the revolt that no longer seeks support in the thing it is negating and gets its warrant only from itself. What crystallized in the conflict against the loi Travail was not the partial refusal of a disastrous reform, but the massive discrediting of the government apparatuses, including the union ones. It’s not surprising that the banner of the French spring, “Basedons ingouvernable,” rendered as “Become ungovernable,” re-emerged in Washington in the protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration. Since within the governmental apparatus the police have the function of ensuring individual submission in the last instance, of producing the population as a population, as a powerless, and hence governable, depoliticized mass, it was logical that a confict expressing the refusal to be governed would begin by laying into the police and would adopt the most popular slogan: “Everybody
hates the police.” Escaping its shepherd, the flock could not have found a better rallying cry. What is more unexpected is that this slogan, appearing in the demonstrations following the killing of Remi Fraisse at Sivens eventually reached all the way to Bobigny after the police rape of Theo, as a slogan of “young people” there, thrown in the face of the uniformed brutes who were eyeing them from a raised metal passageway turned into a mirador.
If you're wondering about "loi Travail"
>The law makes it easier for companies to lay off workers, reduce overtime payments, and reduce severance payments that workers are entitled to if their company has made them redundant.[4][5] On the other hand, it allows workers to transfer untaken days off between employers, and provides additional support for young people without training or qualifications.
>en.wikipedia.org
Even accepting the police may be corrupt goons or henchmen, I find it quaint and a bit childish to regard locking horns with the professional police forces as inherently virtuous. I think I understand the zeal and courage behind such sentiment, but the romantic law breaker is about as cartoonish as the benevolent job creator or the transformative politician. Pressing the authors to clarify and give examples, they've a list of martyrs, but what is built by criminal disobedience? Illegal Lemonade stands and food donations come to mind as examples but where do we wind up after we've fucked the police? Fatter bums?
Does any political theorizing ever concede its own needlessness in a small town context? I can't help but think most of these ideas apply to the mega cities and large urban expanses. If you're in rural or remote parts, I think life is more simple
Morning bump
Violence is the one true capital.
Violence is boring
American police have to deal with blacks and Latin American drug cartels on regular basis. That is why they are thee way they are. European police forces were spared of this until recently. They will learn.
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