We are excited to welcome Alex Vitale Thursday May 19 to The Word Is Change and hope you can join the conversation.

As Eric Adams escalates police sweeps to criminalize the poor its essential to understand the origins of modern policing as a tool of social control—The End of Policing helps us do just that.

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“Vitale argues that true safety demands directing resources away from police and prisons and towards economic development, education, and drug treatment. Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it.”—James Foreman

“The End of Policing combines the best in academic research with rhetorical urgency to explain why the ordinary array of police reforms will be ineffective in reducing abusive policing. Alex Vitale shows that we must move beyond conceptualizing public safety as interdiction, exclusion, and arrest if we hope to achieve racial and economic justice.”—Ruth Wilson Gilmore