People protested police brutality at the 2000 Republican National Convention. Twenty years later, not much has changed.
The Road to Abolition
Amid this galvanizing moment of uprisings and calls to defund the police, Truthout has gathered together some of our most important work on the abolition of policing and prisons. For a decade, we’ve been documenting this work and the ideas behind it. In this feature, we’ve gathered together some recent and past pieces that can help us to envision abolition — both the imagination and the practice of it — and move together toward a more liberated future.
Activists say removing police will make schools safer for students of color and free up cash for COVID safety measures.
Activists are drawing attention to the connections between police killings and rising inequality across racial lines.
Our best hope lies in grassroots, community-led truth and reconciliation processes based in restorative justice.
Authors Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law discuss their new book, “Prison By Any Other Name,” and the need for abolition.
Sociology departments must end their role as pipelines to police academies.
Social workers have a history of partnering with the state to serve as carceral enforcers rather than as liberators.
To achieve the goal of abolishing police, we need to fight against all fronts of policing power.
Taking a stand against racism and police violence must include releasing all survivors of police torture from prison.
Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law and Mariame Kaba discuss abolishing the police and policing.