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  1. As someone who has participated in waves of activism involving mass arrests since 1998, and intensively studied the prior waves of the 1930s and 50s-70s, I don't see the same increase in threats as this thoughtful thread. x.com/brendanetynes/status/1784196239451451509
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      Biggest picture: The CRM faced a small police force, but large anti-black KKK By the 1960s, Black Freedom movement & antiwar protests also faced police + national guard + FBI COINTELPRO
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        These forces exercised much more-deadly violence vs protesters than we've seen since Ferguson, though their crowd control tech was less comprehensive. People in Watts, Newark, Kent & Jackson State were shot & killed.
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          Between 1970 and 1999, jail capacity increased 8- to 10-fold. (and has since leveled off) Very large protest arrest scenarios didn't fundamentally change.
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            Most mass arrests are for trivial violations. 600 people can overwhelm a local court system (Seattle WTO 1999). When charges are harsher 450 people, held longer, can gum up the local jail (Cincinnati 2001).
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              Arrests at a larger scale (5k, May Day 1970, 2k SF antiwar 2003) are essentially un-prosecutable. (… under current legal arrangements. Obviously, if that changes we should adjust.)
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                Keeping 1000s of extra people arrested remains extremely logistically annoying for the state even in a hyper-incarcerated country.
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                  For long-term consequence of these mass arrests, I think we have 1999-2004 as a test case. I'd love to hear what others experienced…
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                    My local knowledge is that people who experienced mass arrests in 2003 figure among those administrators cracking down on protest and among those tenured faculty resisting that crackdown.
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