Editors' preface: A journey to safer futures / Colin Kaepernick, Connie Wun, and Christopher Petrella -- Foreword: Believe in new possibilities / Angela Y. Davis -- Introduction: A future worth building / Colin Kaepernick -- The Feds are watching: a history of resisting anti-black surveillance / Simone Browne -- The myth of the good cop: pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars--and black folks into criminals / Mark Anthony Neal -- My son was executed by an ideal: a conversation with Gwendolyn Woods / as told to Kiese Laymon -- The truth about "Officer Friendly" / Tamara K. Nopper -- SWAT's paramilitary fever dream: when police play soldier, everybody loses / Stuart Schrader -- Disability justice is an essential part of abolishing police & ending incarceration / Talila A. Lewis -- Snaps!: collective (queer) abolition organizing created this moment / Erica R. Meiners -- Schools as carceral spaces / Tamara K. Nopper -- How abolition makes schools safer: funneling our children from classrooms to cages ends now / Kihana Miraya Ross -- We must center black women: Breonna Taylor and bearing witness to black women's expendability / Kimberlé Crenshaw -- Stolen freedom: the ongoing incarceration of California's indigenous peoples / Morning Star Gali -- Queer & trans liberation requires abolition / Dean Spade -- Challenging e-carceration: abolition means no digital prisons / James Kilgore -- The carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper -- The fight to melt ICE: why we're fighting for a world without ICE / Cristina Jiménez Moreta and Cynthia Garcia -- The hidden pandemic: prisons are a public health crisis--and the cure is right in front of Us / Kenyon Farrow -- The long grip of mass incarceration / Tamara K. Nopper -- My father deserves to be free: a son's fight for his father's freedom / Russell "Maroon" Shoatz and Russell Shoatz III -- We're all living in a future created by slavery / Ameer Hasan Loggins -- Reforms are the master's tools: the system is built for power, not justice / Derecka Purnell -- No justice, no freedom: criminal justice reform cost me 21 years of my life / Derrick Hamilton -- police reform as counterinsurgency: how reformist approaches to police Violence expand police power and legitimate the next phase of domestic warfare / Dylan Rodríguez -- The extent of carceral control / Tamara K. Nopper -- Three traps of police reform / Naomi Murakawa -- Putting a black face on police agendas: black cops don't make policing any less anti-black / Bree Newsome Bass -- The new Jim Code: the shiny, high-tech wolf in sheep's clothing / Ruha Benjamin -- Change from the roots: what abolition looks like, from the Panthers to the people / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Casting off the shadows of slavery: lessons from the first abolition movement / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Survivors at the forefront of the abolitionist movement / Connie Wun -- Who is being healed?: creating solutions is about answering questions prisons never asked / Marlon Peterson -- Ending the war on black women: building a world where Breonna Taylor could live / Andrea J. Ritchie -- Bankrolling the carceral state / Tamara K. Nopper -- We can dismantle the system at the polls, too / Rukia Lumumba -- What is & what could be: the policies of abolition / Dan Berger and David Stein -- The journey continues: so you're thinking about becoming an abolitionist / Mariame Kaba.