https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0002391 homoit0002391 Police abolitionist movement Abolishing the police movement 2023-01-13 xsd:date 2023-01-13 xsd:date https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001322 Social movements https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001119 Police https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0002390 Defund the police movement 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.