Anti-Police Actions 2001
Police Cars Damaged: 238+
Police Cars Destroyed: 37+
Police Officers Injured: 120+
Police Chiefs Injured: 2
From News Reports
What do ya think, can we beat these figures this year? Everybody Get Your Shit Started!
Just some random information for you--In 2001, more cops died in the line of duty than any other year in U.$. history. Have a great year!
Tired of getting beat, harassed, pushed around by the pigs? Are you fed up with their violence and authoritarian bullshit? Are you sick of reading about people getting beat and shot to death by the Gestapo? Maybe you know someone who was killed or harmed. Have you had enough of their racism? Well maybe if we start defending ourselves and start fighting back they'll fuck off and mind their own damn business. These fascists are going to have to get out of the fucking way.
The primary function of police is to maintain control: to defend the rich (and property in general) against the poor and to keep us from taking a little more than the shit we get. They are the first line of defense to protect the government from popular uprisings. They're not here to serve and protect you unless you are of the elite class (I mean how many times do you hear about cops beating up CEO's? Meanwhile, people of color and poor whites (to a lesser degree) are regularly fucked with. Sure they may make token efforts at "peace keeping" and rationalize that they're actually a benefit to society, rather than realizing that they play a fundamental role in oppression and the maintenance of systematic violence against life--and that they're only "needed" in a society whose members are disempowered as individuals and alienated from each other, unable to have healthy relationships and true community.
The violence of this society is largely a by-product of the conditions we live under: the stressful lives we live, the crap we eat, the pollution we breathe, the unhealthy thoughts we think. The rise in psychological disorders in modern times has come as a result of an extremely high tech/industrial, alienated existence (which itself arose originally from civilization in general--of which one of the worst forms yet is capitalism). Cops are a part of the problem that allows all this shit to perpetuate itself.
Let's develop tight-knit small autonomous communities that will deal with their conflicts as a community on their own terms, rather than having some institutionalized authority coercing/forcing us around and handing down "one-size-fits-all" justice. Let's develop cop-free zones in the areas we live (this has been done in many places where there is such a strong anti-cop sentiment that anytime they come into the neighborhood, they're attacked). In Germany, squatted neighborhoods would barricade the streets to prevent cop penetration. In Compton, there was a strong, effective community opposition to the police until the pigs sent in undercovers to spread drugs and misinformation, causing gang and community conflict and thus allowing the pigs to regain control and recreate the illusion of the "need" for their presence/involvement. Some people set up Cop Watch (Berkley, Phoenix) units to patrol the police. Cop Watch members get a lot of experience in dealing with the police and can be an effective means for people to defend their communities against the pigs.
As social tensions and government repression increase and population density rises in the times ahead, we need to be ready to defend ourselves. Let's prepare. See ya in the streets.
Also, check out What Do You Think You’re Doing, Officer? by Rob Los Ricos [On September 3rd 1999, anarchist Robert Thaxton was sentenced to a 7 year sentence on charges of assault and riot. This was for his part in the June 18th "International Day of Action Against the Global Economy" Reclaim the Streets action held in Eugene, Oregon. Attempting to make an example of Rob, Judge Bearden sentenced Rob to a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years for the assault charge and stacked the 2 year riot charge on top making Rob's sentence to 7 years-all for throwing a rock at a cop in self-defense!]
