police abolition 
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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.
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