99b.-queers-imagine-a-world-without-police.pdf
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WHO WILL PROTECT ME?
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WHAT 2OES THIS HAVE TO BO WITH QUEER Firstly, this matters to queer we are Tesing end of a deal at gives the state a mcnopoly espe. BIEOC, street-involved, drag USeES,. workers, feuues, gender las criminalized people, we have keen undersvandings of how the criminal justine system operates, fails us, and harms us, That means we know better how to take it down. Queer ind trans people, especially ack, Incigenous, #né FOC folks, have been creatiné alternatives to policing and racicel new form: Jof just and community dince forever Queer and trans people are fucking smart, Our wique knowledges, sensibdilities, activisns, bodies, and histories position us zo ovginize effectively against police and state control esercion and violence. P Queers make toppling the oppressive criminal justice system Look much more ratulcus.





> issue.


ce do mot keep
afe" — whet

Imagine a world where we

Pr neee*vetdsa,e°R°Ss Eko

We have tae power to luck out|

pen 858V0 "ESEa BEER AE ot ee

individuel bodies or property only,
tut Instead veulced ine well being

pau) - ela

foo noniQB® beliefs about who or what feel

ae has been compromised by racism,
capit alism, the war on drugs,

and the war on poor people.,|







WHO WILL PROTECT ME?


ane
WHO ENFORCES E LAW? @
HOW DO WE ENSURE JUSTICE?








Tke law is not neutral oz
social power stratifica






2 - it perpetuates
on and violence



Wie dont heve to enforce anything upon
cur bodies and communities. We can -
instead forge shared values and start froma place
of respecting each other's eutononies



end experiences.

Tu Worl amertea and around the worlajk

. existing mcdcle for eximinal justice are
based on settler colonialism,

Restorative or transfcrmetive Justice

processes exist in Indincnous communities

and Nations. They work. We must learn from

this expertise and follow Indigenous 4

leadership on tradicional lanis.





wgJustice is & process thal requires”
all parties to consent and participate.





WHAT DE WERE WET gREOPLE

“Deug ucexs dese=ve all of the same rights
‘and respect as everyone elee. 3
Maat people use substances.

Drug users are not to be "done with"




3 = like ell pecple they deserve a say
ss in their own lives, self detgmtaation,

self—determination & autonomy

a =
‘brug users deserve compassion,
not stigna, We need to stop the

UGTSRS* STAB APRSTER Boe





Qriminaliging drug users creates great possibilities

of hern, overdos2, poverty for drug users
especiuily those who use the most
criminalized crugs





see ed wee
W WILL we MAINTAIN ORDER? °S






eR.
HOW DO WE PU ISH EROPLE





ut who haves "yw
ed or victimized throuch@am®
ns thrust upon th










nz.the wide range of people who may harm o
Sgin e wide raage of situ ations doesnt










nara with healing &
restora tional

g rather than more harm?
#

¢


Se me RAPISTS

d killers and it kelps

2 pues

murder ane
up vorld,


Ite ,alice boteaed done
thet investigation many times, they
only returned to it because of queer

oN P GEE Neus a

were not attached so’ the dlased, racist, nomophobic
police service, but instead a different bedy alcoeether.

“Mone which has the crust of community and IMM.”
centres cur trust and expertises

fie knew there was a killer befor

community







j, f
“

i

Y

LESS COPSE
\MORE TOPS!

a

LA
FE



Ves COPS ft
NMORE TOPS!



L | 1 Wl







ES
WHAT ABOUT TERRORISM?
ws

in racist, Islamophobi

The idea of "terrorism" is ba
and wnservative notions of violence. \

Police brces ds not have
Ja great trac record of

Preventing public acts of m
violence. They are aore










Inenace that it is, Police will rot do that.

groving fesoiet ideologies m

them before they take hold, tkough Sine 20 ti 00)
Jorganiaeng ani duce tic 3 7
WHAT 2OES THIS HAVE TO BO
WITH QUEER

Firstly, this matters to queer
we are
Tesing end of a deal

at gives the state a mcnopoly

espe.
BIEOC, street-involved, drag USeES,.
workers, feuues, gender

las criminalized people,
we have keen undersvandings
of how the criminal justine
system operates, fails us, and

harms us, That means we know
better how to take it down.

Queer ind trans people, especially
ack, Incigenous, #né FOC folks,

have been creatiné alternatives to policing

and racicel new form: Jof just and

community dince forever

Queer and trans people are
fucking smart, Our wique knowledges,
sensibdilities, activisns, bodies, and

histories position us zo ovginize

effectively against police and state control
esercion and violence. P

Queers make toppling the oppressive
criminal justice system Look much more ratulcus.