What’s Next

What’s Next: Safer and More Justice Communities Without Policing

A collaborative document organized and edited by Mariame Kaba
Design by Rachel Hoffman

There is always a danger that this powerful uprising for change could be manipulated, as has been the case in the past, into projects that make only superficial changes to police, that reconstitute police forces under other names, or that redistribute the functions of policing among other public agencies and private organizations. It is essential that we identify the organizing strategies that will bring real change and avoid repeating or recreating the many misleading and ineffective reform responses to anti-police resistance that have met calls for change in the past. We hope that this guide will empower you to begin building a police-free future in your community and provide you with some strategies for ensuring this.