Compellingly 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 at 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. 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 ideaswritten in
slogans and chants over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricadesinto a compelling
must-read manifesto for police abolition. 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.
