Abolitionists are interested in doing away with the system rather than finding ways to make it work better, or to make it “kinder and gentler.” We don’t see the PIC as “broken”—we see it working very, very well—at surveilling, policing, imprisoning, and killing exactly the people and communities it targets, in service of the power structures that produce and require it. Based on this analysis, we work to diminish the scope and power of the PIC, while simultaneously increasing the ability of communities targeted by it to be safer, stronger, healthier, and more self-determined.
