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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.
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police Vs Impunity
08 Jun 2020
“Until our Black and brown communities get control of the police, they are going to continue to murder us with impunity,” said Frank Chapman, chair of the National Alliance Against
Howie Hawkins
Community Control of the Police: An Idea Whose Time Came and Never Left
26 Feb 2020
This policy paper makes the case for reviving the Black Panther Party program for community control of the police.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A "Fighting United Front” for Community Control of Police
03 Dec 2019
Eight hundred delegates to the newly re-founded National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression chose veteran organizer Frank Chapman as their executive director, last mo
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police
28 Nov 2019
On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful confere
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The Whole Damn System is Guilty as Hell: Taking Control of the Police
27 Nov 2019
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens.
Max Rameau
Community Control Over Police: A Proposition
24 Jul 2019
Local districts could vote out their current police force and randomly selected residents would oversee the community’s new security arrangement.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New Chicago City Council Bloc to Press for Community Control
13 May 2019
The newly-elected pro-community control of police bloc on the city council will also push for community control of schools and greater democracy in general, said Aislinn Pulley, co
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
An Electoral Strategy to Defeat Police Oppression – and Its Black Allies -- in Chicago
13 Dec 2018
Chicago’s movement against official lawlessness has found they have no choice but to challenge virtually the whole Black Democratic establishment for collaborating with police murder and impunity.