Book description
An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage
When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” – “No Humans Involved.” Dehumanized and…
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Many people who are unsure about police or prison abolition ask if we should still use carceral spaces for violent repeat offenders.
I have always found this question problematic because it assumes, firstly, that our criminal justice system, as currently constructed, actually arrests and convicts violent offenders to begin with. It also assumes that more police and more jails make us safer.
If that were true, the United States would be the safest of all advanced industrial democracies. It surely is not, and No Human Involved helps us understand that police continue to fail Black communities, especially Black women, who…
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