No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Written by Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor
Narrated by Lisa Renee' Pitts
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn't stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens.
Centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and highlighting uprisings, campaigns, and community-based projects, No More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence in all its forms are abundant. Part handbook, part road map, No More Police calls on us to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it toward a world where violence is the exception, and safe, well-resourced, and thriving communities are the rule.
Mariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Press 2021), Missing Daddy (Haymarket 2019), Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Faciltators with Shira Hassan (Project NIA, 2019), See You Soon (Haymarket, March 2022) and No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Andrea Ritchie (The New Press, Aug 2022).
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book does a perfect job of introducing the idea of abolition to newcomers as well as providing a framework to those who may be lost in how to get involved in the movement in even the smallest ways. Also I enjoyed the inclusion of this: "We don’t all need to be abolitionists. But we do all need to make a choice—will we continue to invest in attempts to “fix” policing or seek changes that will reduce and eliminate it?"