Amateur Video: The People’s Police Commission
… This is just another example of how self-organized networks are increasingly empowered to take on powerful institutions, in ways that once required the countervailing power of other institutions. The problem, back then, was that so-called “oversight” bodies more often than not clustered in complexes of allied institutions with those they were supposed to oversee. Hence the largely pro forma “investigations” by police commissions, civilian review boards, and the like. …
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