Lisa Kalayji<p>There is *no alternative* to abolition. None. People given power over captives in a dungeon will brutally abuse that power 100% of time time, forever.</p><p>"Tacoma Police Department repeatedly failed to respond to reports of sexual abuse and assault experienced by people held at the Northwest Detention Center, according to a new report by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights.</p><p>Across the 157 reports of assault, sex crimes or rape at the facility between 2015 and 2025 reviewed by researchers, nearly 90% involved a detained person as a victim. Among those cases, Tacoma police directly contacted detainees who were victims only 36% of the time.</p><p>Reports of violent attacks, sexual assaults and beatings by facility guards have long been disregarded by Tacoma police, said Rufina Reyes, executive director of La Resistencia, a local immigrant rights group that advocates for the closure of the detention center and the end of deportations."</p><p><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-report-tacoma-police-disregard-ice-detainee-911-calls-about-abuse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">seattletimes.com/seattle-news/</span><span class="invisible">uw-report-tacoma-police-disregard-ice-detainee-911-calls-about-abuse/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prisons</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SexualViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SexualViolence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RapeCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RapeCulture</span></a></p>