by @DGI@graeber.social

“The police don’t spend their time fighting violent criminals. Instead, they enforce administrative regulations & endless rules. Rather than protecting us against violence they bring the threat of violence to situations where it’d never occurred otherwise. Most incidents of domestic violence, a drunken brawl, or gang fights, they don’t get involved however try driving down the street with no license plates: how long it’ll be before you are surrounded by people with weapons.”

— David Graeber