Cops Don't Keep Us Safe

Decriminalised Futures - Cops Don't Keep Us Safe: When Survival is Made Criminal.

In May 2019 SWARM hosted a three day festival involving panel discussions across a wide range of topics that impact on sex workers, and that connect and intersect with sex worker rights organising and broader struggles for justice.

In May 2019 SWARM hosted a three day festival involving panel discussions across a wide range of topics that impact on sex workers, and that connect and intersect with sex worker rights organising and broader struggles for justice. Police are there to keep you safe and prisons are built to keep the bad people away. But what if this weren’t true? What if the police were the source of violence, and prisons a method of social control? Who gets to decide who the “bad people” are? And how does this affect migrants, people of colour, and sex workers? This panel will discuss the intersections between prison abolition and state violence, and break down who exactly is targeted by these structures. Featuring Aviah Sarah Day, Melissa (SOAS Detainee Support), Kelsey M, Ru (LCAPV), Laura Watson (ECP).

Police are there to keep you safe and prisons are built to keep the bad people away. But what if this weren’t true? What if the police were the source of violence, and prisons a method of social control? Who gets to decide who the “bad people” are? And how does this affect migrants, people of colour, and sex workers? This panel will discuss the intersections between prison abolition and state violence, and break down who exactly is targeted by these structures.

Featuring Aviah Sarah Day, Melissa (SOAS Detainee Support), Kelsey M, Ru (LCAPV), Laura Watson (ECP).