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Black Community Control Of Police

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  • Community Control of Police is a Right and Necessity
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Community Control of Police is a Right and Necessity
    12 Oct 2020
    In response to protests, the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville has discontinued its ties to the Pentagon’s infamous 1033 program that funnels military weapons and equipment to local police.
  • Only Community Control Can Stop Police Atrocities
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Only Community Control Can Stop Police Atrocities
    15 Sep 2020
    A Minneapolis judge is moving forward with jury selection in the 2nd degree murder trial of the cop that killed George Floyd.
  • Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
    10 Sep 2020
    Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many  Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
  • Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
    09 Jul 2020
    The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power.
  • Protest and Power
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Protest and Power
    02 Jul 2020
    Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams. 
  • Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
    25 Jun 2020
    Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
  • Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
    18 Jun 2020
    Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and accep
  • Police Must Answer to the Community
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Police Must Answer to the Community
    15 Jun 2020
    The demand for community control of police ushers in a new stage of struggle, in which “young people are imagining a world where these tremendous institutions of imperialism and the police state ar
  • Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
    11 Jun 2020
    Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.
  • Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis
    Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman
    Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis
    10 Jun 2020
    Defunding the police might end the armed and uniformed force as we know it, but the ruling class will then hire mercenaries to protect their wealth and enforce their will.
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