People protested police brutality at the 2000 Republican National Convention. Twenty years later, not much has changed.
Abolition
Activists say removing police will make schools safer for students of color and free up cash for COVID safety measures.
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.
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.
It’s time governments led by example and stopped using armed police as the go-to solution for societal problems.
The ongoing Black Lives Matter movement is energizing and inspiring hope among some incarcerated people.