Description: "What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police."--Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "In this visionary yet sober account, Philip V. McHarris marshals empirical data and personal stories to show that the police function not to keep all of us safe but to maintain racial and class order. A half-century of reform has done nothing to reduce police brutality, terror, wrongful deaths, or crime. Beyond Policing offers a new vision of public safety, one that recognizes social and economic security as safety issues. Even skeptics will agree: abolition may be the only viable path to a humane civil society."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams