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A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
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95/100Author:
Geo Maher
Publisher:
Verso
Date:
August 24, 2021
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 interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects and well-resourced social services.
What The Reviewers Say
This all may seem ripped from an overly broad, unrigorous, and dogmatic polemic, but Maher's book is nothing if not exhaustive.
The book is a strangled cry for attention—a demand that we return to the fantasy world a few activists inhabited ever so briefly last summer, before rioting and violence snapped us back to reality. Why get rid of the police? Much of Maher’s answer is standard-issue babble.
Is the cry to defund the police mere rhetoric? No way, this book makes clear.
... [a] provocative and well-researched polemic.
