{"id":2030,"date":"2016-08-16T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2019-11-09T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:34:00","slug":"broken-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Broken Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/brokenwindows\/brokenwindows.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/brokenwindows\/brokenwindows600w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of nights ago, yet another black youth was killed by police in America &#8212; this time in Milwaukee, touching off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2016\/08\/violence-erupts-fatal-police-shooting-milwaukee\" target=\"_blank\">a night of rioting<\/a> which featured the burning of a gas station and the smashing of windows on businesses and cop cars. And as usual, White America and the Boss Media were getting their panties in a twist more about broken windows than human lives.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who&#8217;ve been living in caves since the 1990s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalresearch.org\/2016\/07\/06\/black-lives-over-broken-windows-challenging-the-policing-paradigm-rooted-in-right-wing-folk-wisdom\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Broken Windows&#8221;<\/a> has been a policing institution gifted to us by the likes of Rudolph Giuliani in <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/under-pressure-from-protesters-nypd-chief-resigns-ec809b1fb02c\" target=\"_blank\">New York City.<\/a> Basically a pretext for the establishment of paramilitary police occupations of the poorest &#8212; and blackest &#8212; areas, it was such a hit that &#8220;Broken Windows&#8221; opened up franchises in pretty much every city in the US, spreading its brand of harassment, profiling, intimidation and brutality.<\/p>\n<p>After observing this form of right-wing &#8220;folk wisdom&#8221; in action for over twenty years, I can&#8217;t help but ask: whose windows are really being broken here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;14 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/brokenwindows\/brokenwindows.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 819kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of nights ago, yet another black youth was killed by police in America &#8212; this time in Milwaukee, touching off a night of rioting which featured the burning of a gas station and the smashing of windows on businesses and cop cars. And as usual, White America and the Boss Media were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[734,5,10],"tags":[742,1466,741],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-lives-matter","category-liberty","category-media","tag-broken-windows","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-milwaukee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}