A World Without Police

How Strong Communities Can Make Cops Obsolete

By: George Ciccariello-Maher

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Hardcover | 30 November 2021

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224 Pages

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If police are the problem, what’s the solution?

Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World without Police transcribes these new ideas—written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades—into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police

Persuasively argued and lyrically charged, A World without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives on a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services.

A World without Police argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.

About the Author

Geo Maher has previously taught at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He is the author of five books, including We Created Chavez, Decolonizing Dialectics, Building the Commune, Spirals of Revolt, and World Without Police.

Industry Reviews

“The uprising against the police in the summer of 2020 showed the United States, if not the world, what Black America has always known: the police are an enduring force of oppression and violence. Geo Maher’s new book not only provides us the tools to understand the role of the police but the imagination to conceive of a world without them. This is the right book at the right time.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

“No reasonable person can read this book and still believe police are good for us. Geo Maher proves on every single page that ‘A World Without Police’ is no utopia but a concrete necessity if we want to preserve life and make our communities safer. And he shows us precisely how it could be done. Take this book everywhere. Read, share, act; defund, disarm, abolish.”
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

“Stunning in conception. Forceful in argument. Expert in proposing remedies. In sum, this is a book that must not only be read—but studied.”
Gerald Horne, author of Fire This Time

“Geo rips away the band-aid of liberal police reform to expose the open wound of racism, colonialism, and economic exploitation at the heart of capitalism and its police and shows us that healing that wound will require deep global transformations rooted in community empowerment.”
Alex Vitale, author of End of Policing

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