Abolition, police, violence, Canada, security 

Introduction / Shiri Pasternak, Abby Stadnyk, and Kevin Walby -- Chapter 1 "Uphold the Right": Police, Conservatism, and White Supremacy / Jeffrey Monaghan -- Chapter 2 A History of Toronto Activism against Anti-Blackness / Ruth Nortey -- Chapter 3 Police Use of Force in Canada: Dispelling the Myth of Difference / Julius Haag -- Chapter 4 Defund to Abolish: A 400-Year Struggle against Policing in Montreal / Defund the Police Coalition (Montreal) -- Chapter 5 Against the Social Harms of Policing / Kevin Walby -- Chapter 6 Let's Talk about Police in Our Unions: An Abolitionist Approach to Decent Work for All / Ryan Hayes -- Chapter 7 We Keep Each Other Safe: Organizing for Prison Abolition during a Pandemic / Jessica Evans, Alannah Fricker, and Rajean Hoilett -- Chapter 8 Canada is a Bad Company: Police as Colonial Mercenaries for State and Capital / Shiri Pasternak -- Chapter 9 A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition / Free Lands Free Peoples -- Chapter 10 Grassroots Justices: Lessons from Communities of Murdered and Disappeared Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ People / Vicki Chartrand -- Chapter 11 Narratives on Carceral Abolition: Tami Starlight, Moka Dawkins, and Anonymous as told to the P4W Memorial Collective / Linda Mussel -- Chapter 12 Sex Worker Justice - by Us, for Us: Toronto Sex Workers Resisting Carceral Violence / Ellie Ade Kur and Jenny Duffy on behalf of Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project -- Chapter 13 DIY Defunding the Police: How Winnipeg Sex Workers Stopped the Police from Taking Drivers' Money / Sex Workers of Winnipeg Action Coalition -- Chapter 14 Rights Not Rescue: Defending Migrant Sex Workers from Policing / Elene Lam and Chanelle Gallant -- Chapter 15 No Police at Overdoses / Nicole Marie Burton and Hugh D.A. Goldring -- Chapter 16 Troubling Police and Social Work Collaborations / Ann De Shalit, Adrian Guta, Camisha Sibblis, Emily van der Meulen, and Jijian Voronka -- Chapter 17 Abolishing Carceral Social Work / Edward Hon-Sing Wong, MJ Rwigema, Nicole Penak, and Craig Fortier -- Chapter 18 We Are Like Waves / Kikélola Roach -- Chapter 19 Police Abolition/Black Revolt / Robyn Maynard -- Notes -- Contributions -- Index