A World Without Police : how strong communities make cops obsolete /
Maher, Geo
A World Without Police : how strong communities make cops obsolete / Geo Maher - London: New York: Verso, 2022. - 282 Pages; 20 cm.
"Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World Without Police transcribes these new ideas--written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades--into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition. Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World Without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services"-- Amazon.com.
The pig majority -- Who do you serve? Who do you protect? -- The mirage of reform -- Breaking police power -- Building communities without police -- Self-defense and abolition -- Abolish ICE, abolish the border -- Conclusion. Democracy or the police?
9781839760068
Crime Prevention.
Community Development.
Police -- Attitudes.
HV7431 / .M214 2022
A World Without Police : how strong communities make cops obsolete / Geo Maher - London: New York: Verso, 2022. - 282 Pages; 20 cm.
"Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World Without Police transcribes these new ideas--written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades--into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition. Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World Without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services"-- Amazon.com.
The pig majority -- Who do you serve? Who do you protect? -- The mirage of reform -- Breaking police power -- Building communities without police -- Self-defense and abolition -- Abolish ICE, abolish the border -- Conclusion. Democracy or the police?
9781839760068
Crime Prevention.
Community Development.
Police -- Attitudes.
HV7431 / .M214 2022