Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation

Summary

In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black

Liberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition,

using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifying

combination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization,

self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical autoethnographic journey that

illuminates the rituals of revolution required for dismantling the institution of American

policing. Stop Trying to Fix Policing is an essential work for anyone who wants to go

beyond the rhetoric of police reform, to the next step: contributing to the formation of a

world without policing.

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Learning to Speak the Language of Police Abolition No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter 2 Unfriending Policing No access Pages 23 - 40
Chapter 3 Decolonizing the State Narrative No access Pages 41 - 56
Chapter 4 Community Self-Determination No access Pages 57 - 70
Chapter 5 Black Armed Resistance No access Pages 71 - 88
References No access Pages 89 - 102
Index No access Pages 103 - 110
About the Author No access Pages 111 - 112