Focus:Police violence

The characteristic of any modern state is that it claims to have the exclusive right to use or to legitimate physical violence. In the most states the police is the executive body, which has the legitimation by the state to use physical violence against the citizens on the territory of this state. States select the main duties of the police, these duties are to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of violence. But in the meantime, while the police are inherently non-democratic, it appears that the number of cases where police itself becomes a danger for the public and social order increases. This project shall give the victims of police violence names and so remember them. It shall also be a chronicle for all those outrageous “isolated cases” to show to what such an exclusive power to use physical violence leads to.

Contents of this project

• List of deaths

In rememberance of all those who died by "accident" through the police.

• List of attacks

A list of daily police attacks against people.

• Police and racism

Several cases can be found where police officers attacked Immigrants or people who just have the "wrong" colour. Antifascists get beaten up in "democratic" countries, while fascists get protected on demonstrations and in some of these "democratic" countries the police is that racist that they even cooperate openly with fascists.

• Police violence against protesters

Often cases are reported where the police attacks people, those only "fault" it was to use their democratic right to participate in a demonstration...

• Protecting from police violence: Ideas and advices on how to protect yourself and others

Questions and ideas

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