Violent Order: essays on the nature of police By David Correia and Tyler Wall

The project was championed by the Atlanta Police Foundation and supported by actors such as key government officials, the Mayor, the Atlanta Committee for Progress (a ‘public-private partnership’ featuring many CEOs of the city’s most prominent corporations) and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (the city’s paper of record). Meanwhile, it was opposed not only by abolitionists and radical organisations, but also by environmental protection groups, neighborhood associations and a wide array of community members and residents. See Micah Herskind, ‘Cop city and the prison industrial complex in Atlanta’, Mainline, 7 February 2022, https://www.mainlinezine.com/cop-city-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-in-atlanta/.

Mariame Kaba, ‘Yes, we literally mean abolish the police’, The New York Times, 12 June 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html.