Abolition is already here

Police abolition isn’t about ignoring harm and violence in our communities. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Abolition recognizes that more violence can never be an adequate response to social, political, economic, and interpersonal harm and violence, and doesn’t prevent future violence.

Cops can’t end gun violence, because they are gun violence. Instead of asking for more cops (a.k.a. more state-sanctioned violence) in response to the devastation of school and community shootings, what would it look like if we actually built community networks of care and support actually capable of preventing future harm and violence?

Abolition means trying everything and experimenting with new ways of caring for each other to build a better world.

Abolition is already here. Let’s plan something together.
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Learn more about the coalition efforts to defund the DC MPD and built true safety at defundmpd.org

Mutual aid and transformative justice resources:

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next) (2020)

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, eds., Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (2020)

Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan, Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (2009)

DC mutual aid groups:

DC Mutual Aid Network Facebook page

Other DMV mutual aid groups:

DC mutual aid/transformative justice/community accountability projects:

Other mutual aid/transformative justice/community accountability projects: