In Their Words
Poems on Policing
Poetry has the power to help us grow past the stale and rote ways of thinking about safety that tend to characterize policy discussions.
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Poetry has the power to help us grow past the stale and rote ways of thinking about safety that tend to characterize policy discussions.
We embrace nonconformity in principle—but not for Black men, whose quirks can provoke fear, policing, and punishment.
For alternative responses to policing to work and reduce the footprint of the criminal legal system, they must work in concert and holistically to address both immediate and longer-term social…