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America's Policing System Is Broken. It's Time to Radically Rethink Public Safety (Josiah Bates & Karl Vick, Time)
Incremental Change Is a Moral Failure ( Mychal Denzel Smith)
'We can enact the future we want now': a black feminist history of abolition (Lola Olufemi)
'Defund the police' movement could offer sexual assault survivors a different path for justice, experts say (Wilson Wong, NBC News)
The Problem With “Community Policing” (Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law)
Community Policing and Other Fairy Tales (New Comic Book!)
Minnesota Labor Can Lead The Nation as we Reimagine Public Safety Together (Anna Kurhajec, Workday MN)
Police Violence Against Black Disabled People Can’t Be Ignored Anymore (Elyse Wanshel, Huffpo Black Voices)
We Have Already Stopped Calling The Cops (Aviva Stahl)
We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver (Mariame Kaba & Andrea J. Ritchie)
Maru Mora Villalpando: The Time Is Now, Whatever It Costs
Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit (via Vision Change Win)
How Prison Abolitionists Are Meeting the Moment (The Appeal)
Resources from Defund the Police: What Comes Next? Webinar, 7/12/20
How Defund and Disband Became the Demands
How I Became a Police Abolitionist by Derecka Purnell
‘Abolish The Police’ Isn’t New. This Energy Is.
Alexis Okeowo: How the Police Could Be Defunded
Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet
Teen Vogue: 8 to Abolition Is Advocating to Abolish Police to Keep Us All Safe
Angela Davis: ‘We knew that the role of the police was to protect white supremacy’
Essence: Policing Has Failed: For Real Public Safety, We Need A Million Community-Driven Experiments
Sahan Journal: St. Paul School Board Vote Police Out of Schools
Twitter thread of community/neighborhood media discussing abolition
Tamara Winfrey-Harris: The Reckoning Will Be Incomplete Without Black Women and Girls
Mariame Kaba: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
MPD150: What are we talking about when we talk about “a police-free future?”
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