№ 2026.Jul.11-003
A World Without Police — Who Will Protect You?
"Abolish the police" became a fashionable slogan of the American left after 2020. In NLR 158, Wacquant says: your motives I understand, but your program is hollow. Abolitionism is philosophically seductive, sociologically untenable, and politically a dead end — and the communities it would harm most deeply are precisely those most opposed to it.