** Foreword by Alicia Garza

** Introduction by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-lan Price

*** Policing, Racist Violence and False Notions of Safety

*** A Police-Free Future?

* Part I: Police Failing to Serve and Protect

** 1. Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life[5] by Nicholas Powers

*** Making Wounds Speak

*** From Slave Chains to Handcuffs

*** The Thin Blue Line

*** To Protect and Serve

*** Killing the Future

*** Gregory

** 2. Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men[8] by Aaron Miguel Cantú

*** Jailhouse Informants “Lie Primarily in Exchange for Lenience”

*** Whistleblower in the Homicide Division

*** Snitches on the Ninth Floor

*** The Memo

*** “Reading and Rebelling”

*** Patterns and Practices

*** Backdrop of Corruption

*** Neglect

** 3. Amid Shootings, Chicago Police Department Upholds Culture of Impunity[24] by Sarah Macaraeg and Alison Flowers

*** “Quasi-Military Organizations”

*** “Full-Time Gangsters”

*** “A Biopsy of the City’s Accountability System”

*** Shootings

*** Officer Gildardo Sierra

*** Still on the Force

*** “We’re Not Dirty Harry”

*** “For Their Reputation”

** 4. Beyond Homan Square: US History Is Steeped in Torture[34] by Adam Hudson

*** Torture in US History

*** Committee Against Torture

*** More Torture and Renditions Overseas

** 5. “Never Again a World Without Us”: The Many Tentacles of State Violence Against Black-Brown-Indigenous Communities[78] by Roberto Rodriguez

*** Prison and Plea Bargains

*** The New and Flawed Racial Profiling Guidelines

*** Solutions and Black-Brown-Indigenous Unity

** 6. Killing Africa[115] by William C. Anderson

** 7. Say Her Name: What It Means to Center Black Women’s Experiences of Police Violence[150] by Andrea J. Ritchie

*** The Broader Context of Police Attacks on Black Women

*** Black Women’s Experiences of Driving While Black

*** Hidden Abuse: Sexual Harassment and Assault by Police

*** The New Jim Crow

*** Punishment Rather Than Protection

*** Racially Gendered Threat

*** Say Her Name: Visibility and Resistance

** 8. Your Pregnancy May Subject You to Even More Law Enforcement Violence[190] by Victoria Law

*** “The Tip of the Iceberg”

*** When Medical Care Constitutes Another Form of Violence

*** Criminalizing Pregnancy: A Combination of Police and Medical Violence

*** When the State Commits Violence

** 9. Black Parenting Matters: Raising Children in a World of Police Terror[207] by Eisa Nefertari Ulen

* Part II: Communities Building Resistance and Alternatives

** 10. Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future[213] by Rachel Herzing

** 11. We Charge Genocide: The Emergence of a Movement[228] by Asha Rosa, Monica Trinidad and Page May

*** Delivering Our Petition to the UN

*** Our Debt to the Dead

** 12. Heeding the Call: Black Women Fighting for Black Lives That Matter[234] by Thandisizwe Chimurenga

*** From a “Moment” to a “Movement”

*** No More Business as Usual

*** Where Is the Movement Headed?

** 13. Our History and Our Dreams: Building Black and Native Solidarity[236] by Kelly Hayes

*** A Complicated History

*** The Language of Oppression

*** Sharing Struggle in Chicago

** 14. A New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Call the Police[244] by Mike Ludwig

** 15. Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police[256] by Candice Bernd

*** Oakland Organizers Build Community Power With Medical Cohort Training

*** Eugene’s “CAHOOTS” Shares Dispatch With Police While Minimizing Contact

** 16. Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation[261] by Ejeris Dixon

*** Relationship Building

*** Bold, Small Experiments

*** Taking Time to Build Skills

*** Spending Less Time Judging Survivors

** Acknowledgments

** About the Editors

** About the Contributors