police abolition

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/5/2022
  

  Two Years After George Floyd: What Next?

  by Austin McCoy

  Despite the massive insurgency of 2020, activists struggle as news media amplify reactionary moral panics about history curricula and crime to justify increasing the funding and power of police departments that have seen superficial reforms at best. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  8/10/2022
  

  Reasons to Defund the FBI—That Have Nothing to Do with Trump

  by Alex S. Vitale

  The FBI's history of repression and service to the powerful should override any fleeting satisfaction liberals feel about the search warrant the Bureau served at Mar-a-Lago. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/9/2022
  

  Review: The Pragmatism of Police Abolition

  Activist and police abolitionist Derecka Purnell's book draws on personal and academic history to push readers to question what they think an ideal society looks like, and whether police forces are an instrument for achieving it. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/20/2020
  

  The Crimes of the Campus Police

  by Grace Watkins

  "The problems with the campus police are already apparent to anyone willing to look, and gender-based violence by campus officers is an important part of the case for abolition."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/12/2020
  

  Police Reform Won’t Fix a System That Was Built to Abuse Power

  by Stuart Schrader

  Police have held municipal budgets hostage for decades now, under the premise that without their professional expertise there would be anarchy. 

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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.