We recognize that violence is not an aberration of policing; rather, it is the heart of police power, and its trajectory has been racialized from the beginning. The violence of police was never inevitable; it was built over centuries of legal, imaginative, and material practices as a mode of everyday governance for colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and racial capitalism. We invite everyone who works and teaches with us to make their classrooms, their departments, and the university itself into spaces for unlearning the legitimacy of police worldwide. And we call on UCSD to stand by its words with actions of material redress…

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by SDFA board members, The UCSC Guardian.

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