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Anna Stitt

Anna Stitt is a freelance writer, researcher, and radio reporter. She has a BA from Swarthmore College, where she specialized in U.S. history, social anthropology, and critical race theory. She is a long-term student of organizing praxis, specifically as a white person from the South, and currently works as web editorial intern at Tikkun Magazine.

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Fear, Safety, Control, and Resistance: Shifting the Dialogue on Policing

By Anna Stitt | August 21, 2013

Recent events have stirred up new conversations about policing, crime, and violence among white people not targeted by policing. I hope that we can use this moment to examine our beliefs and negotiate how we can participate in eliminating police harassment and violence to begin building safer communities. To facilitate this, I have listed five common remarks that I have heard from other white people, followed by a response.

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