public safety

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Two Contagions, One Opportunity to Reboot our Approach

  by Steve Pyne

  Outbursts of megafires resemble emerging diseases because they are typically the outcome of broken biotas – a ruinous interaction between people and nature that unhinges the old checks and balances. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/12/2020
  

  Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

  by Mariame Kaba

  A police abolition activist argues that the long history of commissions set up to investigate police violence against civilans shows that the institution can't be reformed or regulated. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  6/15/2020
  

  How Defund and Disband Became the Demands

  by Amna A. Akbar

  An Ohio State University law professor summarizes the history of activists and academics who shaped the movement for police abolition that has received attention in the wake of George Floyd's killing and ensuing protests. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  6/12/2020
  

  Defund the Police

  by Austin McCoy

  The emergence of a protest slogan is usually followed by struggles over its meaning; calls for defunding the police echo the contested slogan of "Black Power" in the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/21/2020
  

  A Brief Criminal History of the Mask

  by Melissa Gira Grant

  The New York  City mask order, particularly without any subsequent plan to make masks accessible to the public, hands police another tool to regulate public space—and that is not the same thing as ensuring public safety.