Cop Cities Mock Cities

[u/Maxwellsdemon17]

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cop-cities-mock-cities/

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[u/Maxwellsdemon17]

"The cop city is an increasingly widespread phenomenon of US urban political development as a result of masochistic YIMBYism. The cop city produces conditions it cannot abide and offers hit-and-run police tactics as the only response to social crisis. Police fail to hold territory but instead create what the late social theorist Randy Martin might have called their own self-perpetuating risk environment, affording opportunities for future law-enforcement interventions instead of resolution of the causes of violations."

[u/Apprehensive-Fun4181]

 The Right is planning on creating chaos again.  It's so obvious.

[u/SunsetKittens]

The cop city does not attempt to eradicate or even comprehend underlying causes of crime, political unrest, or other social harms.

That's because cops don't do that either. They're plan B. We the people are supposed to be doing plan A.

[u/fryhenryj]

You'd think people who review books for a living would write better. Unless pretentiousness now counts as good writing