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I'm Uptown Serg, and this is “Police, Prisons, and Community Policing.” I'm grateful that society is beginning to acknowledge some of the consequences of overpolicing, but there needs to be a focus on the most direct consequences of overpolicing, which is mass incarceration. I want us all to be able to put the pieces of this puzzle together, one section at a time, so we can understand the process in its entirety. Policing and incarceration are inherently bonded through the ideology of control and suppression, and neither one is any good for our community. People laugh when they hear others claim that we don't need to police. How will we prevent crime? they ask. But police and prison has never been about preventing crime. Let me be clear about this. Despite what you may think, police and prisons haven't always existed. But crime has. So how was crime dealt with before policing and prisons came into play? Crime is a public health issue. In fact, show me any crime and I show you how police and prisons aren't the