{"product_id":"the-end-of-policing-isbn-9781839763786","title":"The End of Policing","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Urgent, provocative, and timely, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it.\"\u003cbr\u003e—James Forman Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eLocking Up Our Own\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates the largest protests in US history—thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. That case had been put persuasively a few years earlier in \u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e by Alex Vitale, now a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over policing and racial justice.\u003cbr\u003e The central problem, Vitale demonstrates, is the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on firsthand research from across the globe, he shows how the implementation of alternatives to policing—such as drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs—has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This updated edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.\"\u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e’s  great strength lies in demonstrating that if the shape of American  policing is historical, it is also contingent. We could have made  different choices regarding how we set about securing the public against  the array of threats that confront it, and — refreshingly, at this  moment of general despair — Vitale believes we still can.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adam Greenfield, \u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unfortunately, neither increased diversity in police forces nor body cameras nor better training make any seeming difference. We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rachel Kushner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e combines the best in academic research with  rhetorical urgency to explain why the ordinary array of police reforms  will be ineffective in reducing abusive policing. Alex Vitale shows that  we must move beyond conceptualizing public safety as interdiction,  exclusion, and arrest if we hope to achieve racial and economic justice.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ruth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offers a compelling digest of the dynamics of crime and law enforcement,  and a polemic against the militarization of everything. Vitale calls  for a dismantling of our very notion of the police: a sprawling,  untethered bureaucracy permitted to use lethal force and unaccountable  to the people.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—E. Tammy Kim, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Challenging standard accounts of how to reform policing, Alex Vitale  argues that true safety demands directing resources away from police and  prisons and towards economic development, education, and drug  treatment. Urgent, provocative, and timely, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James Forman, author of Locking Up Our Own\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e is that holiday argument book, the relatively  brief stack of facts you can hand to a relative who still talks about  those nice guys who helped out with the flat tire and doesn’t see why  any lives have to matter more than they already do. A thorough rinsing  of the American criminal justice system.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sasha Frere-Jones, \u003ci\u003e4 Columns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For readers seeking an overview of the problems with American policing ... bracing and thorough.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sam Adler-Bell, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex S. Vitale\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last thirty years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. His essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy Now!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice News\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eDaily Show with Trevor Noah\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299922792677,"sku":"NP9781839763786","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839763786.jpg?v=1767739184","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-end-of-policing-isbn-9781839763786","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}