![]() ![]() 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. And in the end, Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love-one that we can accomplish together if only we decide to.įor more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. ![]() *Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021*īecoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. ![]()
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