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Our March newsletter is out w book recommendations, upcoming events, and updates on Memphis. Please subscribe. alexvitale.substack.com/p/a-newsletter…
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How can we stop the corporate capture of drug markets?
Come join the discussion of @KojoKoram's new book "The Next Fix" tomorrow night at @VersoBooks.
Come join the discussion of @KojoKoram's new book "The Next Fix" tomorrow night at @VersoBooks.
Join us on Oct 28 in NYC for a discussion of "The Next Fix" by @KojoKoram. He will be joined in conversation by @avitale!
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Great work by my team in presenting our research on crisis stabilization practices at CVI sites at the Mayor's Office.
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I'll be speaking remotely at Oxford University on Oct 20th.
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Looking forward to this live conversation tonight.
We'll talk about Mayor Mamdani, the NYPD and whether he should fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on today's Indypendent News Hour from 5-6 pm on @WBAI-99.5 FM and wbai.org. Our guests will be noted police critic @avitale and @petersterne of @CityAndStateNY.
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Come see our film on decriminalizing sex work tomorrow at Hunter College. Link below.
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I argued it was a mistake to keep Tisch in July 2025. But the issue isn't just her. It is an approach to policing. Just shuffling leadership without rejecting broken windows, gang suppression or aggressive protest policing won't achieve anything.
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Excited to be heading to Detroit Sunday.
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Experts say Mamdani made a political calculation to back off major swings to police reform. They worry that approach will keep the city tab for police misconduct lawsuits high as the total approaches $1 billion since 2018 with little sign of slowing down theintercept.com/2026/09/16/nyp…
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That is literally the core history of the Penn State Police, who were formed out of US colonial counterinsurgency efforts in the Philippines to suppress labor movements in coal and iron fields of Penn.
Why is Pennsylvania State Police training with Bolivian National Police in the Andes?
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NYC DSA folks: Please co-sponsor our proposal to "Build Community Safety through Prevention, Not Policing" on the convention web page: convention.socialists.nyc/proposals
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I'll speaking at this Wednesday night.
Join IPK and @nyu_journalism on September 16 for a talk with @MatthewMWolfe. He will discuss his new book, Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage with @jerolmack and @avitale.
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My conversation with Doug Henwood on Abolitionist responses to violence. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beh…
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Great push-back against the politics of endless racialized criminalization.
1/🧵I stand by what I said—no one should be jailed for stealing toothpaste. But not bc I believe in lawlessness.
I care just as deeply about compassionate justice as I do about using our resources effectively. Criminalizing poverty accomplishes neither.
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Rape Crisis Centers are essential for breaking the patterns that lead to future sexual assaults and intimate partner abuse. Our sex pest President, of course, is eliminating federal support for these centers. States must make up the difference.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/rap…
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Contrary to the talking points you are fed, shifting money from police to social services is enormously popular across all components of the income distribution:
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A common tactic--including in the pages of Jacobin magazine--is to pretend to complain about the "slogan" of "defund" and to use that complaint to avoid conversation about common sense and popular policies like transferring $$$ from cops to health, education, and housing.
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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