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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Unabridged — 14 hours, 23 minutes
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By Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Unabridged — 14 hours, 23 minutes
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For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.

Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed.

In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolit...