Foreword / Alicia Garza
Introduction / Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-lan Price
Part I. Police failing to serve and protect. Killing the future : the theft of Black life / Nicholas Powers - Ring of snitches : how Detroit police slapped false murder convictions on young Black men / Aaron Miguel Cantu - Amid shootings, Chicago Police Department upholds culture of impunity / Sarah Macaraeg and Alison Flowers - Beyond Homan Square : US history is steeped in torture / Adam Hudson - "Never again a world without us" : the many tentacles of state violence against Black-Brown-Indigenous communities / Roberto Rodriguez - Killing Africa / William C. Anderson - Say her name : what it mean to center Black women's experiences of police violence / Andrea J. Ritchie - Your pregnancy may subject you to even more law enforcement violence / Victoria Law - Black parenting matters : raising children in a world of police terror / Eisa Nefertari Ulen
Part II. Communities building resistance and alternative. Big dreams and bold steps toward a police-free future / Rachel Herzig - We charge genocide : the emergence of a movement / Asha Rosa, Monica Trinidad and Page May - Heeding the call : Black women fighting for Black lives that matter / Thandisizwe Chimurenga - Our history and our dreams : building Black and Native solidarity / Kelly Hayes - A new year's resolution : don't call the police / Mike Ludwig - Community groups work to provide emergency medical alternatives, separate from police / Candice Bernd - Building community safety : practical steps toward liberatory transformation / Ejeris Dixon
Acknowledgments
About the editors and contributors
Notes
Index.