For more resources, see the resource hubs: For A World Without Police and Defund the Police Resource Hub
Shorter Pieces
Derecka Purnell, “How I Became a Police Abolitionist,” 2020.
Alex Vitale, “The Police Are Not Here to Protect You,” 2017.
Maya Dukmasova, “Abolish the Police? Organizers Say It’s Less Crazy Than It Sounds,” 2016.
Mariame Kaba, “Police Reforms You Should Always Oppose,” 2014.
José Martin, “Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World,” 2014.
Critical Resistance, “Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps in Policing.”
Jared Knowles and Andrea Ritchie, “Cops Don’t Stop Violence: Combatting Narratives Used to Defend Police Instead of Defund Them,” 2021.
Micah Herskind and Tiffany Roberts, “The Failure of Police Reform,” 2022.
Mychal Denzel Smith, “Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality,” 2015.
Rose City CopWatch, “Alternatives to Police,” 2008.
Sarah-Ji and Monica Trinidad, “Community Compilation on Police Abolition,” 2016.
Garrett Felber, “The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not New,” 2020.
Stuart Schrader, “Defund the Global Policeman,” 2020.
Edward Ongweso Jr., “Defunding the Police Actually Means Defunding the Police,” 2020.
Tasha Amezcua, Ejeris Dixon, and Che J. Rene Long, “Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police,” 2016.
luna nicole, Alternatives to Police Flyers, 2018.
Meg O’Connor, “What Traffic Enforcement Without Police Could Look Like,” 2021.
Ricardo Levins Morales, Zola Richardson, Jonathan Stegall, and Woods Ervin, “The Fantasy of Community Control of the Police,” 2021.
Cameron Rasmussen and Kirk “Jae” James, “Trading Cops for Social Workers Isn’t the Solution to Police Violence,” 2020.
Eddie Cole, “The Racist Roots of Campus Policing,” 2021.
Aya Gruber, “Crime Rates Rise and Fall. The Police Mostly Have Nothing to Do With It,” 2021.
Listening and Viewing
Project NIA, “Defund Police,” 2020.
Longer Pieces and Books
Robin D.G. Kelley, “Insecure: Policing Under Racial Capitalism,” 2020.
Alex Vitale, The End of Policing, 2018. [interview with author linked]
Meghan G. McDowell and Luis A. Fernandez, “Disband, Disempower, and Disarm: Amplifying the Theory and Practice of Police Abolition,” 2018.
Amna Akbar, “Toward a Radical Imagination of the Law,” 2017.
Amna Akbar, “An Abolitionist Horizon for (Police) Reform,” 2020.
Barbara Fedders, “The End of School Policing,” 2021.
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