Most histories of policing start with the 1829 establishment of London’s Met. This article explores British policing experiments in the quarter century before 1800.

Alternatives to Hollow 1972 - by Radical Alternatives to Prison. Introduction by Rebecca Roberts.

Abolitionist Futures is pleased to host a digital archive of ‘The Abolitionist’ a magazine that was published in Britain between 1979 and 1987 by the group Radical Alternatives to Prison (RAP).

Can the origins of the police help explain why they are beyond reform and need abolishing? In this article John Moore shows how England’s first central government funded police were established to protect the interests of slavers and impose order on the London’s dock workers.