Abstract
To acknowledge that the abolition movement made reform better is not to reduce the movement to that purpose. For the non-abolitionist, the end of reform is better policing. For the abolitionist, reform is at best “a strategy or tactic toward transformation,” meaning contesting and ultimately eliminating policing. These are not compatible visions. But even if the collaboration between holders of these visions is just a tactical alliance, it is a tactical alliance that is producing good results. Perhaps those good results will lay a foundation for abolition, or perhaps they will seed in abolitionists’ fertile imaginations a positive vision of policing that, for too many people struggling in present realities, remains as yet inconceivable.
Recommended Citation
Corey Stoughton,
Reflections of a Non-Abolitionist Admirer of the Police Abolition Movement,
30 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 227
(2024).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol30/iss2/7
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