Police Abolition Study

Written By Pu'uhonua Penpal

Resource Hubs

  • Defund the Police. A one-stop-shop for organizers and advocates looking for tools, resources, trainings, legislation and policies.

  • Prison Abolition Resource Guide. This guide contains resources on the abolition of policing, prisons, and punishment. From disability justice, restorative and transformative justice, sexual violence and anti-carceral feminism, nonprofit industrial complex, private prison and prison labor/slavery, prison organizing, climate justice, LGBTQ criminalization, abolition for parents and young people, surveillance, sex work decriminalization, hate crimes, and should killer cops go to prison. 

  • For a World Without Police. We live in a society where almost every social problem--from noisy neighbors to broken taillights--has become a point of police intervention. The result is an epidemic of harassment and violence. But what if we found other ways to solve our issues? What if we rolled back police power, and abolished the institution entirely? Here you are invited to think and act with other visionaries, and find ways to achieve a police-free world.

  • Critical Resistance’s chart Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps to Policing

  • TransformHarm.org | Abolition. Essays, articles, media, toolkits, and curriculum.

  • Abolitionist Futures: Introduction to Abolition. These resources are here to help those new to abolition get to grips with the key ideas. Use the arrows on the right to find more.

  • One Million Experiments. Explore snapshots of community-based safety strategies that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

  • 8 to Abolition: The end goal of these reforms is not to create better, friendlier, or more community-oriented police or prisons. Instead, we hope to build toward a society without police or prisons, where communities are equipped to provide for their safety and wellbeing. Includes a resource page with resource hubs, essays, organizations, and guides.

Toolkits

Organizations

  • Critical Resistance. Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.

  • Project NIA. Project Nia works to end the incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices.

  • INCITE Women of Color Against Violence. INCITE! is a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.

  • Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. We are a union for the incarcerated fighting for prison abolition.

Books

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