mongrel matter interviews:

Geo Maher, the author of A World Without Police (Verso, 2021)

&

Adam Elliott-Cooper (University of London), the author of Black Resistance to British Policing (MUP, 2021)

and we touch on:

- the imperial, colonial and racist origins of policing in the UK and USA

- contemporary racist praxis perpetrated by police units in Australia, the UK and USA

- family abuse by police forces and sub-culture of whitewashing

- police obsolescence today vs white supremacy + disaster capitalism

- a nexus between the working class, cops and unions

- expansion of private property, expansion of police vs public housing

- "neighborhood watch" as an internalisation of the cop

- community-oriented infrastructures as alternatives to the police culture

- the prison industrial complex

- decriminalising all drugs (e.g. Portugal)

- police defunding, abolition, and reconstruction