Rodriguez says he’s even seen some people take to using the term “incremental abolitionism,” which he sees as ultimately “counter-abolitionist.” Rodriguez decries the fact that even among those who ...

Abolitionists argue it's not enough to "reform" these institutions but to divest from them entirely, with city budgets directing millions of dollars earmarked for law enforcement into other ...

Northwestern Community Not Cops discussed the differences between police reform and abolition at a Sunday teach-in in collaboration with For Members Only. NUCNC has called for the abolition of ...

Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform, by Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg, University of California Press, 280 pages, $22.95. We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist ...

A frequent response to abolitionists is to be expected: Why not try reform instead? ... In other words, much of the work of abolition happens not alongside reform but in spite of it.

Police reform, defunding, and abolition, explained. Even with deep disagreements, a promising dialogue is emerging around defunding police services not focused on fighting crime.

Abolition versus reform. Vandrick Towns, a formerly incarcerated man who now works as a program manager at Options Recovery Services, said he is not fully on board with abolishing prisons, ...

Angela Davis Makes the Case for Abolition as Opposed to Reform She warns that piecemeal reforms of policing and the carceral state have “provided the glue that has guaranteed their continued ...

The movement for police abolition and the abolition of the prison industrial complex calls for a complete dismantling of the system. Hence calls for police reform are at odds with it.

Derecka Purnell draws from her experience as a human rights lawyer in her new book, published this month, “Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom,” to argue that ...