A World Without Police (eBook)

How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

Geo Maher (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021 | Ebook UK & RoW
288 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-83976-008-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.A World without Police argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abolition • Abolitionists • Alex Vitale • Angela Davis • Barbara Ransby • Black lives matter • Blue Lives Matter • Du Bois • Police • police abolition • police and prisons • police power • police reform • police state • prison abolition • Racist Police • racist policing • ruth Wilson Gilmore • structural racism • The End of the Police • The Movement for Black Lives • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-008-7 / 1839760087
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-008-2 / 9781839760082