Reimagining Public Safety

Return soon for resources which will help visitors investigate the need to re-imagine public safety in the United States.

In the meantime, here a few readings to begin grappling with how we might transform public safety.

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If you didn't realize or are not sure that police violence is a problem, or simply want to learn more, start here.

MAPPING POLICE VIOLENCE  - https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

SLAVE CATCHERS AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN POLICING: How American Policing Started With Carolina Slave Catchers - OZY | A Modern Media Company

PROPOSALS TO REIMAGINE THE POLICING SYSTEM:

8 Can't Wait - background and critique

https://8cantwait.org/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/8-can-t-wait-explained/ar-BB156hLu

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/campaign-zero-8-cant-wait-police-violence-1010013/

https://harvardcrcl.org/why-8-wont-work/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/09/us-reject-8cantwait-policing-program

Is "reform" a dirty word?: 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/13/magazine/police-reform.html

Defunding the police - a "radical" idea, or a question of semantics? [links coming soon]

Abolition: too extreme, or not as outrageous as it sounds? Are there societies without policing as we understand it?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750