7 February 2023: Abolition and Police

Vitale, Alex. (2017). “The Limits of Police Reform,” and “The Police are Not Here to Protect You.” Chs 1 and 2 in The End of Policing. London and New York: Verso Books, 7–54.

PDF: Vitale, The End of Policing

Alternative source (PDF): https://files.libcom.org/files/Vitale%20-%20The%20End%20of%20Policing%20(Police)%20(2017).pdf

Ritchie, Andrea. (2017). “Policing Gender Lines.” Ch 6 in Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston: Beacon Press.

PDF: Ritchie, "Policing Gender Lines"

Alternative source (EPUB): https://marcell.memoryoftheworld.org/Andrea%20J.%20Ritchie/Invisible%20No%20More_%20Police%20Violence%20Against%20Black%20Women%20and%20Women%20of%20Color%20(3753)/Invisible%20No%20More_%20Police%20Violence%20Against%20-%20Andrea%20J.%20Ritchie.epub

(2022). “‘Police don’t produce safety’: the Black feminist scholars fighting for abolition” (interview with Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie). The Guardian, 29 August.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/police-defund-abolition-mariame-kaba-andrea-j-ritchie