Like during the George Floyd uprisings, you suddenly have like 50 active examples that cops pretty much exist for one ultimate purpose. Violence, repression,maintenance of the status quo. The consistency is evident, all at once, in brutality against students. Internalize that.
Prison abolitionists, as stated in nearly all of the books about it, is not simply about closing all prisons. It’s also a commitment to eradicating whatever makes people, communities, and societies violent. Prisons are closing as society is also becoming safer