Defund
v. reallocating funds and resources from one agency to another that can better perform the aim of the service, a vital step of abolition
v. reallocating funds and resources from one agency to another that can better perform the aim of the service, a vital step of abolition
ex. "Defund the police?? Are you crazy? Crime will skyrocket!"
"Bro chill, defunding the police is just means taking some cop money and giving to programs that prevent the need for crime in the first place, like housing or education."
"Bro chill, defunding the police is just means taking some cop money and giving to programs that prevent the need for crime in the first place, like housing or education."
About
About
Isn't it too radical?
Isn't it too radical?
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Where to learn more
Where to learn more
Masterlist
Short Readings:
Videos:
- Channel - That Dang Dad videos on abolition and stories as ex-cop
- Defund, Reform, and Abolition Explained
Zines:
Books:
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
- Police: a Field Guide by David Correia, Tyler Wall
- Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis
- The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
- Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (Anthology; also available directly from Critical Resistance here)
- Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams
- Policing the Planet (Anthology)
- Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Anthology via Truthout)
- Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Police Unbound: Corruption, Abuse, and Heroism by the Boys in Blue by Anthony V. Bouza
- Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law