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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding s
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occ
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
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Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman
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Howie Hawkins
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