No More Police, Mariame Kaba
No More Police, Mariame Kaba
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No More Police
A Case for Abolition

Author: Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kandace Montgomery, Miski Noor

Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Unabridged: 15 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers

In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn't stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore demands to defund police, divest from policing, and invest in community resources to create greater safety through a Black feminist lens.

Centering survivors of state, interpersonal, and community-based violence, and highlighting uprisings, campaigns, and community-based projects, No More Police makes a compelling case for a world where the tools required to prevent, interrupt, and transform violence in all its forms are abundant. Part handbook, part road map, No More Police calls on us to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it toward a world where violence is the exception, and safe, well-resourced, and thriving communities are the rule.

About Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Mariame has co-founded multiple other organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect, the Just Practice Collaborative and Survived & Punished. Mariame serves on the advisory boards of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Critical Resistance and the Chicago Community Bond Fund. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Nation Magazine, The Guardian, The Washington Post, In These Times, Teen Vogue, The New Inquiry and more. She co-authored the guidebook Lifting As They Climbed and published a children's book titled Missing Daddy about the impacts of incarceration on children and families. Kaba is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from Lannan Foundation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by papergrove on July 05, 2022

The art and title of this book caught my eye. I wanted to read it because while I know some about calls to defund the police and change the way we support our communities and provide "safety" in the United States, I have not done in-depth research on the topic. Whether you want to learn more about th......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 03, 2022

Mariame Kaba is without a doubt one of the most important voices in the movement for criminal justice reform and prison abolition. No More Police makes the case by using evidence and statistics on how police intervention is harmful and leads to violence in already marginalized communities. The call......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on November 22, 2023

The stuff was good. The messages sent were great. I loved so much of this. The structure is what got me. It fluctuates so much between hard core quantitative data and opinion anecdotes which was a really challenging reading skill. I was constantly switching my mindset between wanting to take notes a......more

Goodreads review by Leanna on February 23, 2023

Really fascinating! I've always been curious about "defunding the police" and what that might look like. The authors make a great case for how ineffective our systems of policing are.....and back up the argument with data, case studies, and anecdotes. They also paint a clear picture that "policing"......more

Goodreads review by Chris on October 09, 2023

If you only have time to read one book on abolition, make it this one. And read chapter 4 on soft policing carefully. This book is about so much more than “police” - it is based on Gilmore’s assertion that abolition is presence, not absence. It’s about building the world we want and need.......more

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