The proposed amendments to the #PoliceCrackdown Bill are not meant to address violence, but rather weaponise tragedy to increase the state’s capacity to do harm, especially against minoritised communities.

As we assemble to light candles for those who have died, let us also light a fire under the action needed to truly honour those lost, by joining together to fight like hell for the living.

Prime Suspect 3 (1993) is some of the most deliberately and pointedly political police procedural drama ever made for TV. Clair Quentin discusses its politics of trans representation.

Why would we ask for anything less than the ability for all women to exist loudly and vividly in public spaces? Let us not sell ourselves short, a world without violence against women is one without the Met Police force.

There’s something about Twin Peaks’ Dale Cooper which has rendered him, at least in certain circles of the anti-cop left, somewhat of an exception — a kind of solitary good apple. But why? And is this exception justified?

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.

Children’s picture books help young people grow their understanding of self and the world that surrounds them. In doing so, they may replicate prevailing notions of power, policing, punishment and irredeemability. But they can also create space for radical alternatives.

With its exotic setting and undemanding nature, Death in Paradise is the product of a racist paradigm which it in turn reinforces in its audience.

Hot Fuzz is a police movie about police movies, and the relationship between media and real policing.

Pre‐emptive intervention is premised on slippery, speculative assessments police make about whether somebody is the ‘type’ of person who might offend at some point.

Jarman’s film reminds us that police were invented to maintain a new social order, just as queers were invented to be excluded from it.

While Fargo is ostensibly a show about good cops trying to keep a handle in a world of utter depravity and corruption, Fargo also really wants to abolish the police.

Given the role that media representations play in shaping how people feel about the police, the conflicted feelings of abolitionists in the audience are worth taking some time to reflect on.

Abolishing Prevent must be part of campaigning against surveillance and policing more generally, as one manifestation of the wider logics through which they operate.

Black Resistance to British Policing is well written and jargon free. It is informed by activism and scholarship and makes an important contribution to ongoing anti-racist and abolitionist activity.

The state could maintain its power through direct military oppression but, with a strategically deployed police force and the cultivation of a consenting public, it doesn’t need to.

Article by Rohan Rice drawing attention to the neo-liberal austerity measures already taken in relation to police funding that resulted in privatisation. Arguing that abolition of the police, rather than defunding, should be our demand

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will provide the legal mechanism for charities – including Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) – to operate prisons for the first time in England and Wales.

On the 40th anniversary of the Brixton uprisings, Abolitionist Futures pays tribute to the struggles against racist policing that profoundly shape the reality of Britain today, and which have left their lasting mark on its history.