{"product_id":"9781839763786","title":"The End of Policing","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Urgent, provocative, and timely, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it.\"\u003cbr\u003e—James Forman Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eLocking Up Our Own\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates the largest protests in US history—thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. That case had been put persuasively a few years earlier in \u003ci\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/i\u003e by Alex Vitale, now a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over policing and racial justice.\u003cbr\u003e The central problem, Vitale demonstrates, is the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on firsthand research from across the globe, he shows how the implementation of alternatives to policing—such as drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs—has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This updated edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.","brand":"Alex S. Vitale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45894891012308,"sku":"9781839763786","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_47ec3bb3-fffb-41c0-91c7-6e56d6eefa40.jpg?v=1732431848","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781839763786","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}