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Police abolition advocates in New York City at a protest following the 2021 killing of Daunte Wright. The contemporary police abolition movement began at least as early as 2014 during the Ferguson riots but gained strength in 2020 during the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the protests surrounding it. [58] [71]
The End of Policing is a 2017 book by the American sociologist Alex S. Vitale.In it, Vitale argues for the eventual abolition of the police, to be replaced variously by decriminalization or with non-law enforcement approaches, depending on the crime.
The police abolition movement gained momentum in the U.S. city of Minneapolis during protests of the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and culminated in the failed Question 2 ballot measure in 2021 to replace the city's police department with a public safety department.
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Sati appears in Hindi and Sanskrit texts, where it is synonymous with 'good wife'; [18] the term suttee was commonly used by Anglo-Indian English writers. [19] The word sati , therefore, originally referred to the woman, rather than the rite.
A World Without Police is a book written by historian and political theorist Geo Maher discussing police abolition and what society may look like with a transition from traditional law enforcement agencies to community-based policing.
The first CID was created by the British Government in 1902, based on the recommendations of the Indian Police Commission, chaired by Andrew Fraser. [1] At the entrance of the CID office at Gokhale Marg, Lucknow, there is a portrait of Rai Bahadur Pandit Shambhu Nath, King's Police Medalist (KPM) "Father of Indian CID".
She advocates for defunding the police to invest in basic services thought to be the root of crime, such as housing and healthcare. [4] She co-authored the policy proposal #8ToAbolition. [9] [10] She published her debut book, a memoir called Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom under Astra House in October 2021. [3]