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There are tanks and police officers arresting every single person there as we speak.
And yet still many climbers feel that independent groups should police themselves.
I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black.
I police myself all the time.
This is the same technique that police use when they're doing their job properly.
The added tragedy of Banaz's story is that she had gone to the police in England five times asking for help, telling them that she was going to be killed by her family.
The police didn't believe her so they didn't do anything.
The police wanted to be helpful when Amanda Hess called about the death threat she was getting on Twitter, but they couldn't really when they said, "What's Twitter?"
About 15 years ago in Chicago, they started to replace old police stations, and they built this identical model all over the city.
It was equality in the sense that everybody gets the same police station, but it wasn't equity in the sense of responding to each community's individual needs.
So we reached out to community members and police officers in North Lawndale; it's a neighborhood in Chicago where the police station is perceived as a scary fortress surrounded by a parking lot.
In North Lawndale, people are afraid of police and of going anywhere near the police station, even to report a crime.
So we organized this brainstorming session with both groups participating, and we came up with this whole new idea for the police station.
It's based on the idea that if you can increase opportunities for positive social interactions between police and community members, you can rebuild that relationship and activate the neighborhood at the same time.
These insights came directly from the community members and the police officers themselves, and as designers, our role was just to connect the dots and suggest the first step.
So with the help of the city and the parks, we were able to raise funds and design and build a half-court, right on the police station parking lot.
"When something happens to you, it will give the police a lead."
One summer afternoon in 2013, DC police detained, questioned and searched a man who appeared suspicious and potentially dangerous.
At this time, I was interning at the Public Defender Service in Washington DC, and I was visiting a police station for work.
I was on my way out, and before I could make it to my car, two police cars pulled up to block my exit, and an officer approached me from behind.
He told me to stop, take my backpack off and put my hands on the police car parked next to us.
They took pictures of me spread on the police car, and they laughed.
Into their police radios as they described me, they kept saying, "Middle Eastern male with a backpack.
And this description carried on into their police reports.
At one point, the officer who patted me down scanned the side of the police station to see where the security camera was to see how much of this was being recorded.
I think we're all normalized from a young age to the idea of police officers and arrests and handcuffs, so it's easy to forget how demeaning and coercive a thing it is to seize control over another person's body.
And in fact, in our system, I think it's better to be an affluent person suspected of trying to blow up a police station than it is to be a poor person who's suspected of much, much less than this.
And I know when I say Ferguson, many of you will think of police violence.
But today I want to talk about a different aspect of the relationship between their police force and their citizens.
When I imagine what that would feel like if, every time I left my house, there was a chance a police officer would run my license plate, see a warrant for unpaid debt, seize my body they way the did in DC and then take me to a jail cell, I feel a little sick.
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