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At a time when policing is wielded to enforce rising authoritarianism, this is the book we need.\" —Maya Schenwar, co-author of \u003cem\u003ePrison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"brian bean pulls no punches in this provocative and compelling analysis of the police as an institution. A new generation of activists, suspicious of 'reform' and inspired by the ideas of abolition, will find big ideas here about the origins of the police and what it means to imagine a world without them.\"  —Brian Jones, author, \u003cem\u003eBlack History Is for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Five years after Minneapolis shook the world, political and economic elites are unified around a single message: we were wrong. Wrong to demand abolition, wrong to suggest that communities can take care of themselves, wrong to imagine alternatives to racist fear, capitalist greed, and colonial genocide. But brian bean is here to remind us that they are the ones who are wrong: the police are little more than glorified guardians of whiteness and wealth, and they will be the first to go when these twin systems come crashing down.\" —Geo Maher, Coordinator of the WEB Du Bois Movement School for Abolition \u0026amp; Reconstruction, and author of \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Think the movement for police abolition is over? Think again. In this bold and uplifting work, brian bean shares inspiring examples of people who managed their communities after driving out the police. And he reminds us that the role of police is not to prevent crime but to defend capitalism. 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