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Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
15 Mar 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It

Community control of police advocates in the Washington, DC region say their approach is the best -- and most democratic – way to achieve both defunding and total abolition of policing as it exists in the US. “What we’re pushing for,” said Netfa Freeman, of Pan African Community Action, “is a ballot initiative that would allow communities to kick out these police agencies” and establish their own security apparatus.

Black Community Control of Police

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