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A world without police : how strong communities make cops obsolete / Geo Maher.

by Ciccariello-Maher, George.

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Crime prevention.

Community development.

Police -- Attitudes.

Police brutality -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

9781839760051 (hc)

282 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."--Publisher.

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