![]() ![]() ![]() Calling them felt like something, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. Louis, let alone the nation. But the police were a placebo. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. ![]() For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. ![]()
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