Revolutionary Worker

In community-based policing, a community’s residents and its institutions work with police to reduce crime and police brutality. In the following viewpoint, the Revolutionary Worker argues that community policing will not reduce crime or prevent police misconduct. The police need crime in order to justify their existence, the newspaper contends, and furthermore, they rely upon force and brutality to suppress minority youth and the poor. In addition, the newspaper asserts, community policing turns participating civilians and institutions into paramilitary forces that are used to oppress the very people who most need protection. The Revolutionary Worker is a weekly newspaper published by the Revolutionary Communist Party.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What were “Judenrats,” according to the Revolutionary Worker?

2. According to the newspaper, what happened to Gidone Busch...