Police containment and criminalization of a community will not succeed in persuading or forcing its members to stop carrying weapons, yet alone foster social development. The police, just like other agents of capitalism and the state, are not able ameliorate a situation that has been created by exploitation and oppression. The only type of action that would do that is, I believe, diametrically opposed to what Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Ramsey want. We need to be realistic here, regardless of if the people who got arrested broke the sacred law or not; is an increase in arrests for carrying weapons going to stop people from shooting each other? Is giving the police more power going to make the communities involved safer for its members? Or is Philly increasingly going perpetuate its legacy as a police state which it obviously has not yet abandoned? Instead of naively hoping that the police can solve a problem which they themselves are part and parcel of, we should vigorously focus our efforts towards fighting and resisting the conditions which facilitate and create violence and crime in some of the poorest areas of Philly.