Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
three strikes law
Killing of Kerry Baxter Junior, by Anita Wills July 2011
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 3:56pmSee petition
Three Strikes Laws, Prison Slavery, Private Prisons: excerpts from The DISH
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 12:44am~Venue for an Artist...three strikes...by devorah major
~Bit of History...Three Strikes You're Out
~Hood Notes...Three Strikes Caused This Prison Problem...by Larry Gerston, Ph.D.
~News You Use...Private Prisons: Greed and Corruption ~Politics Y2K11...Florida's Racist New Law...By Mansfield Frazier
~Disgruntled
Venue for an Artist / three strikes
By devorah major
three strikes you're out
and the return of the chain gang
a rose by any other name
when you think
of the american institution of slavery
do you think of history
black history
do you think of stories of slave ships
bodies pressed together head to toe
death and misery stories of long ago
auction blocks
flesh groped and pushed
weighed in
people renamed
chained, beaten and confined
and turned from human into commodity
when you think of slavery
do you think of then
well then
Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 11:39pm[article in The Economist!]
Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little
Jul 22nd 2010 | Spring, Texas
THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped out. Thinking they must have come to the wrong place, Mr Norris opened his front door, and was startled to be shoved against a wall and frisked for weapons. He was forced into a chair for four hours while officers ransacked his house. They pulled out drawers, rifled through papers, dumped things on the floor and eventually loaded 37 boxes of Mr Norris’s possessions onto their pickups. They refused to tell him what he had done wrong. “It wasn’t fun, I can tell you that,” he recalls.
