{"product_id":"a-world-without-police-how-strong-communities-make-cops-obsolete-9781839760051","title":"A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete","description":"\u003cb\u003eIf police are the problem, what's the solution?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTens 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. \u003ci\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/i\u003e transcribes these new ideas--written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades--into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, \u003ci\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/i\u003e offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/i\u003e argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeo Maher\u003c\/b\u003e has previously taught at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chavez\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDecolonizing Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Commune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpirals of Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWorld Without Police\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378717921554,"sku":"9781839760051","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67af291d-b43a-4fa8-84b5-4e9970d54682.jpg?v=1728651133","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-world-without-police-how-strong-communities-make-cops-obsolete-9781839760051","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}