For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protestpolice violence because these "solutions" do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed.Becoming Abolitionistsshows that abolition is not solely about getting rid of police, buta commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society, and, most excitingly, an opportunity to reduce and eliminate harm in the first place. Author: Derecka Purnell. Hardcover;288 pages.

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