The End of Police

Alex vitally's book is called the end of policin. We have come to assume that policing is this incredibly effective, cost free intervention and there's nothing else we can do. But i've been a police scholar for over two decades... people grossly overestimate the effectiveness of policing. Fail to calculate the costs, fail to consider what we could do other than policing. For whatever public safety problem you are concerned about, we have credible alternatives that we could be implementing right nowthat would allow us to reduce our reliance on policing.