024: Erase The Thin Blue Line With Red

On this third episode exploring the Misfit Twelve, Jesse & Matt will assess Alex S. Vitale's book The End of Policing, which is equal parts a love letter to liberals—pleading for them to end their thumb-from-mouth habit with reformist politics, while also opening up a doorway to abolitionist thought. Published in 2017 by Verso Books to small fanfare, this book-length plea has rapidly flickered in-and-out of print since the George Floyd Uprisings of 2020; and so pressing is the topic and demand to #DefundThePolice that The End of Policing has been downloaded over 200,000 times from Verso's website. Our co-hosts weigh the pros and cons of the book's argument, audience-angle and whether it offers a bonafide vision of a world without police, or consider if it's just another leftward book diagramming the corpse of liberalism instead. Our co-hosts will then use the book as a launch-pad to other notions not discussed, but which circulate unseen, above or below the subtext of The Carceral State while imagining other ways of being free from the policeman inside our heads.

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