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This [link] has a really good collection of articles on alternatives to police and how to create a world without police.

Here are some more articles and books:

The police: the case against - Polite Ire

Rebellion against police violence - toward community defense, dual power and revolution - First of May Anarchist Alliance

Stop kidding yourself: the police were created to control working class and poor people - Sam Mitrani

Our Enemies in Blue - Kristian Williams

Kropotkin - Law & Authority

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Foucault - Discipline and Punish; the Birth of the Prison

Communique from an Ex-Cop - Christopher Dorner

Who Needs Fascists When There Are Police? - Reflections on the Anti-Fascist Mobilization in Portland of August 4

The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse - Why Every Struggle Is Now a Struggle against the Police

Slave Patrols and Civil Servants - A History of Policing in Two Modes

Cameras Everywhere, Safety Nowhere: Why Police Body Cameras Won’t Make Us Safer

Seven Myths About the Police

The Two Faces of Fascism: How Police Are Complicit in the Rise of Fascism

“Dear Citizens, This Is Your Police”: In Praise of the Police-Free Zone in Hamburg

Collusion Between the Police and Alt-Right Is Inevitable

When the Police Get Into Doxxing

Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

A post that imagines a series of common public safety concerns and the ways they could be dealt with without police

Police and Thieves: Insurgency, Control, Crime

We Want a World Without Police. These Organizers Are Charting the Way

More Trainings Are Not the Answer to Police Violence Against Disabled People

The Myth of State Neutrality

Against the Logic of the Guillotine - Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too

The Anarchy Police: Militant Anti-Fascism as Alternative Policing Practice

Incarcerated Anti-Fascists Report Targeted Beatings by Guards

Good post with links about prison abolitionism

Another good post with links about police and prison abolitionism, and transformative justice

The #coronavirus and the police

The other death toll from the coronavirus pandemic - The police are harassing, beating and killing people while enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns across the world.

Unrest in Beaubreuil, France: “We are at war”… against the police!