Problems with Community Control of Police

Created by Beth Richie, Dylan Rodríguez, Mariame Kaba, Melissa Burch, Rachel Herzing and Shana Agid

Over the past 50 years, radical Black organizations have consistently demanded community control of the police. The idea behind this demand is that those most impacted by oppressive policing should have the power to decide how the system operates in their own communities, and that community control of police would transform the force from an occupier into a partner (or bring truth to idea that the police “protect and serve”).