A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete Maher Geo

If <strong>policestrong> are the problem, what's the solution?Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with A <strong>Worldstrong> <strong>Withoutstrong> <strong>Policestrong> transcribes these new ideas--written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades--into a compelling, must-read manifesto for <strong>policestrong> abolition.Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A <strong>Worldstrong> <strong>Withoutstrong> <strong>Policestrong> offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking <strong>policestrong> power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the <strong>policestrong> obsolete.