Editors' preface: A journey to safer futures / Colin Kaepernick, Connie Wun, and Christopher Petrella --
Foreword: Believe in new possibilities / Angela Y. Davis --
Introduction: A future worth building / Colin Kaepernick --
The Feds are watching: a history of resisting anti-black surveillance / Simone Browne --
The myth of the good cop: pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars
and black folks into criminals /
My son was executed by an ideal: a conversation with Gwendolyn Woods / as told to Kiese Laymon --
The truth about "Officer Friendly" / Tamara K. Nopper --
SWAT's paramilitary fever dream: when police play soldier, everybody loses / Stuart Schrader --
Disability justice is an essential part of abolishing police & ending incarceration / Talila A. Lewis --
Snaps!: collective (queer) abolition organizing created this moment / Erica R. Meiners --
Schools as carceral spaces / Tamara K. Nopper --
How abolition makes schools safer: funneling our children from classrooms to cages ends now / Kihana Miraya Ross --
We must center black women: Breonna Taylor and bearing witness to black women's expendability / Kimberlé Crenshaw --
Stolen freedom: the ongoing incarceration of California's indigenous peoples / Morning Star Gali --
Queer & trans liberation requires abolition / Dean Spade --
Challenging e-carceration: abolition means no digital prisons / James Kilgore --
The carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper --
The fight to melt ICE: why we're fighting for a world without ICE / Cristina Jiménez Moreta and Cynthia Garcia --
The hidden pandemic: prisons are a public health crisis
and the cure is right in front of Us /
The long grip of mass incarceration / Tamara K. Nopper --
My father deserves to be free: a son's fight for his father's freedom / Russell "Maroon" Shoatz and Russell Shoatz III --
We're all living in a future created by slavery / Ameer Hasan Loggins --
Reforms are the master's tools: the system is built for power, not justice / Derecka Purnell --
No justice, no freedom: criminal justice reform cost me 21 years of my life / Derrick Hamilton --
police reform as counterinsurgency: how reformist approaches to police Violence expand police power and legitimate the next phase of domestic warfare / Dylan Rodríguez --
The extent of carceral control / Tamara K. Nopper --
Three traps of police reform / Naomi Murakawa --
Putting a black face on police agendas: black cops don't make policing any less anti-black / Bree Newsome Bass --
The new Jim Code: the shiny, high-tech wolf in sheep's clothing / Ruha Benjamin --
Change from the roots: what abolition looks like, from the Panthers to the people / Robin D. G. Kelley --
Casting off the shadows of slavery: lessons from the first abolition movement / Mumia Abu-Jamal --
Survivors at the forefront of the abolitionist movement / Connie Wun --
Who is being healed?: creating solutions is about answering questions prisons never asked / Marlon Peterson --
Ending the war on black women: building a world where Breonna Taylor could live / Andrea J. Ritchie --
Bankrolling the carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper --
We can dismantle the system at the polls, too / Rukia Lumumba --
What is & what could be: the policies of abolition / Dan Berger and David Stein --
The journey continues: so you're thinking about becoming an abolitionist / Mariame Kaba
