00596nz a2200217n 4500 230113|||anznnbab||||||||||||||a|||||||d homoit0002391 https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0002391 homoit Police abolitionist movement Abolishing the police movement Movimientos sociales https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001322 A primarily U.S. American and Canadian political movement that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public safety. Police abolitionists believe that policing, as a system, is inherently flawed and cannot be reformed—a view that rejects the ideology of police reformists. While reformists seek to address the ways in which policing occurs, abolitionists seek to transform policing altogether through a process of disbanding, disempowering, and disarming the police. Abolitionists argue that the institution of policing is deeply rooted in a history of white supremacy and settler colonialism and that it is inseparable from a pre-existing racial capitalist order, and thus believe a reformist approach to policing will always fail.