Offering a diagnostic global perspective on police brutality, Towards Anti-policing: Prefiguring Possibilities beyond the Thin Blue Line raises critical questions about whether policing is needed at all and what underlying purpose it actually serves. In this post-pandemic era, where the grip of authoritarianism has only tightened, Towards Anti-policing positions radical grassroots activism as a first line of critical defiance against the ‘Fear Terror Paradigm’ of policing logics and the pervasive brutality that this form of community control represents.

Contributions by: Martín Arias-Loyola, Will Boisseau, Andrea Brock, Manuel Callahan, Levi Gahman, Carissa Honeywell, Christos Marneros, Cara Mattu, Natália Baldessar Menezes, Annie Paradise, Antonio Pele, Tom Raue, Johannah-Rae Reyes, Ian Senjury, Shelda-Jane Smith, Simon Springer, Nathan Stephens-Griffin, Conn Tenchis, Rhon Teruelle, Dana M. Williams, Richard J. White, Piotr Zuk