PIC Abolition Resources

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police by Mariame Kaba

Graphic: Reformist reforms vs. abolitionist steps in policing

How I Became a Police Abolitionist by Derecka Purnell

The Abolition Movement by Josie Duffy Rice

#8toAbolition by K Agbebiyi, Micah Herskind, and many more

Blue Bloods: America’s Brotherhood of Police Officers by Eve L. Ewing

We Should Still Defund the Police by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

If We Abolish Police, What Happens to Rapists? by Cassandra Mensah

Audio: AirGo Ep 253 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 2: Mariame Kaba

Why “Crime” Isn’t the Question and Police Aren’t the Answer by Alec Karakatsanis

The Defunding Debate by Jack Herrera

Reforms Won’t Save Us, Abolishing the Police Will by Nnennaya Amuchie, Mon Mohapatra, and Leila Raven

How Defund and Disband Became the Demands by Amna A. Akbar

Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People by Eve L. Ewing

Protests Are Galvanizing Demands to Take Cops Out of Schools by Sarah Jones

Terror and Abolition by Atiya Husain

Police Abolitionists Aren’t ‘Too Radical’ – They’ve Been Making Gains for Decades by Sarah Jaffe

Audio: Intercepted, Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition with Chenjerai Kumanyika

The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New by Garrett Felber

What We Talk About When We Talk About Defunding the Police by Steven Hale

The Police Have Shown Their True Colors by Amanda Terkel

How Much Do We Need The Police? by Leah Donnella

Don’t Let Cops Join Our Protests by Derecka Purnell

Arresting the Carceral State by Mariame Kaba & Erica R. Meiners

Don’t Use Sexual Assault Survivors to Justify Police and Incarceration by Kylie Cheung

Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests by Maya Dukmasova

The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform by Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, Mara Hvistendahl

To Win Justice in the Names of Ahmaud, Breonna, and George, We Must Defund the Police by Molly Talcott

No More Money for the Police by Philip V. McHarris and Thenjiwe McHarris

The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. by Alex S Vitale

Mass Incarceration Is Dead, Long Live the Carceral State by Naomi Murakawa

Summer Heat By Mariame Kaba

Interrupting Criminalization: an initiative at the BCRW Social Justice Institute

Abolition for the People: Angela Y. Davis, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Robin D.G. Kelley, and numerous others

Even More Resources: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment -- a collection by Micah Herskind

Longer Reads: Transformative Justice and Prison Abolition Booklist