A review by anjalasagne
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

challenging slow-paced

5.0

This should be mandatory reading. Each chapter starts by describing an issue/criticism of the police, listing possible reforms and then discussing why said reforms are not enough to protect people and stop the powerful political forces benefiting from abusive and invasive policing. “They may adopt a language of reform and fund a few pilot programs, but mostly they will continue to reproduce their political power by fanning fear of the poor, nonwhite, disabled, and dispossessed and empowering police to be the ‘thin blue line’ between the haves and the have-nots.”