| Description |
282 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Crime prevention.
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Community development.
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Police -- Attitudes.
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Community development. (OCoLC)fst00870818
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Crime prevention. (OCoLC)fst00883055
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Police -- Attitudes.
(OCoLC)fst01068404
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| ISBN |
9781839760051 (hardback) |
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1839760052 (hardback) |
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