The Relationship Between Police and Capital: Attacking the Civil Rights of the Masses

Nikki Crishen Evans

Since their foundation, police have been a central instrument in the production and protection of capital for privileged groups. Nikki’s project focused on the ways in which the Police (the institution and those on the ground) materially violate the civil rights of the masses as a way to increase profit for corporations and those at the top. For example, in 1977, the police conducted a 3:00 AM eviction raid on those participating in the international hotel strike in San Francisco’s financial district. Over 400 riot police brutally cleared a 3000-person human barricade in order to physically remove tenants from the premises.

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