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A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
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English - December 09, 2021 17:35 - ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The 2020 uprisings for racial justice sparked many questions about the violence that police have wrought on Black and Brown communities for generations.
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FEATURING GEO MAHER - The 2020 uprisings for racial justice sparked many questions about the violence that police have wrought on Black and Brown communities for generations. It also sparked on a nationwide level, via the slogan “Defund the Police,” the radical idea of abolishing police altogether.
While many books have been written on the problems of policing to make a case for abolition, there are few that actually tackle what abolition could look like. One of them is a new book by author Geo Maher called A World Without Police.