The Promise of Marronage
Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
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Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
Beyond electing progressive prosecutors, decarceration requires an ambitious, multifaceted struggle at all levels of governance.
Sex offender registries don’t make us any safer. Abolishing them would.
Our movement was born out of our shared grief. Our voices reminded voters that the police should never police themselves.
Emboldened reactionaries tried to get voters to super-fund our city’s police force. But we out-organized them, and they lost badly. Here’s how we did it.