How do we ensure public safety w/o police? Check out this list on alternatives to policing

1. Alternatives to Police (PDF) by Rose City Copwatch (2008)
   
2. Alternatives to the Police by Evan Dent, Molly Korab, and Farid Rener
   
3. The Avant-garde of White Supremacy by Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton
   
4. Broken Windows is On Hiatus: Community Interventions We Can Enact Now for Real Justice by Hannah Hodson
   
5. Can We Build an Anti-Policing Movement that Isn’t Anti-Police? by Radical Faggot
   
6. Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community by Steve Herbert
   
7. Feeling for the Edge of your Imagination: finding ways not to call the police
   
8. A New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Call the Police by Mike Ludwig
   
9. Not Calling the Police by Prison Culture
   
10. Origins of the Police by David Whitehouse
    
11. The Other Side of the COIN (PDF) by Kristian Williams.
    
12. Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World by Jose Martin
    
13. Policing Slaves Since the 1600s by Auandaru Nirhan
    
14. The Shanti Sena ‘peace center’ and the non-policing of an anarchist temporary autonomous zone: Rainbow Family peacekeeping strategies (PDF) by Michael Niman
    
15. Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People by Sam Mitrani
    
16. We Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops by Alex S. Vitale
    
17. What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Police? by Alex S. Vitale
    
18. Where abolition meets action: women organizing against gender violence (PDF) by Vikki Law
    

This is another blog Tumblr deleted for being a Russian psyop on main but it’s so strange that a good chunk of these were UhhHHhHh very vocally pro black and very anti police brutality 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

I have no trouble believing lagonegirl was one, and although I still kinda doubt the-real-eye-to-see was one, it’s at least not totally impossible… but some of these seemed like completely normal anti-police-brutality, anti-racist, pro-black blogs that didn’t really… do anything remotely suspicious or likely to promote Trump.

That’s because they’re using stolen content from real activists to build their credibility. Here’s the original:

http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2014/12/29/thinking-through-the-end-of-police/

^ RB'ing this (and similar posts) because I’m seeing a lot of misinformation going around about what’s been happening and a lot of people dismissing this as “tumblr staff is unfairly targeting innocent people, none of this is real, FAKE NEWS!” and it’s…really damn discomforting.

As lines-and-edges said, a lot of these IRA blogs stole content from other legitimate activists. They did this in order to gain followers and get an ‘in’ with liberal/social justice groups. They created and reblogged posts with actual good, real content mixed in with memes and other things for the same reason—to gain a following, to gain trust, to make themselves out to be a regular person who other users could feel good about reblogging from.

The point of this was so that when they made/reblogged propaganda posts and posts created with the intention to manipulate people, they would be able to easily slip those posts in and make them seem more legitimate. This is basic common sense: if a user posts 100 posts that make them out to be Woke and real and good for every t 1 subtle propaganda post then people are much more likely to reblog that propaganda without really thinking twice about it; a blog that posted nothing but “I love Putin and you should too!!!”-esque things, obviously, would not have been as effective. The people doing this know that.

Also note that a lot of the propaganda spread was not directly pro-Trump because that kind of messaging likely would not have resonated well with the tumblr audience which the people who spread this also know. Instead, we got propaganda of the “both candidates are just as awful, vote for Jill Stein! it won’t be a wasted vote!” and “you’re more Woke to not vote at all!” and “if your candidate isn’t totally morally pure then you’re bad if you vote for them” variety which DID appeal to people on tumblr and, though it didn’t explicitly support Trump or even his ideals, it did do the work to sow seeds of discord, misinformation, and chaos among liberals which ultimately did help Trump’s cause.

Honestly, the difficulty Tumblr’s people seem to be having in recognizing propoganda blogs kind of concerns me. Like, I’ve seen a *lot* of posts of people saying “but this blog posted something I agree with, they can’t be a propoganda blog!”. And I’m just kind of like … yes? Of course they posted something you like? How do you think propoganda blogs operate? And of course their actual propoganda posts sound reasonable. How do you think propoganda works?

The in-group/out-group dynamics combined with the distrust (or disinterest) in fact-checking (many external news sources have been investigating and reporting on this to confirm) is……. yes, really fucking unnerving.

^^^Reblogging for nonbinarypastel’s comment about how propaganda works (and for the actual good info that the propaganda bot stole from legit activists).