A review by lcr16
No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Kaba and Ritchie use a deep breadth of their knowledge and experience of activism to give this well thought out book. It reads like a call to action and a manual. The chapter are divided up well to answer specific questions and abolition, the prison industrial complex, and community work. I particularly loved their use of examples to show mistakes they have seen, such as more cameras in neighborhoods, as well as good work like inviting loud teenagers to have a conversation with a community member rather than calling the police. I do wish they discussed frameworks for helping survivors of violence after the fact. They do briefly discuss restorative justice, but a whole chapter would have been great. They do state they do not have all the answers and call in the reader to imagine what a world with police or the prison industrial complex.