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Op-Ed: Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Mass-Transit Policing
June 04, 2020
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“The push for more MTA police — despite transit’s financial woes and the retreat of the issue of fare evasion — clarifies what was already clear to activists six months ago: The purpose of the policing fetish is simply the need to control the mobility of the economically and racially marginalized — a population that will face the brunt of the coming austerity.“
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