Some of the coordinated NYC luxury looting sounds professional - Russian mafia or mafia mafia - taking advantage of the situation, a reminder that one reason we have organized police forces is there exist organized crime forces

More than looting, more even than murder, the crime I think police abolitionism really doesn’t account for is kidnapping.

A lot of noise around sexual violence against native women is basically around the fact kidnapping is a thing out where authority runs thin.

At the same time if you’re in “extract resources by personally grabbing things in violation of law” mode, kidnapping and ransom increases your maximum haul per grab radically vs. individual goods

Like with bank robbery, police and the FBI have put so much into suppressing it so thoroughly since the 70s we’ve moved to a low equilibrium that people don’t grok it’s a thing anyone can just do, but it is