We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
An upEND Syllabus
Take a self-guided course on family policing’s history, present, and abolitionist future. This is a companion to The upEND Podcast.
Abolitionist Framework Tool
Do proposed reforms to family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?
DC’s Militarization Shows How Policing Targets Black Youth
The current “takeover” of DC has led to federal agents terrorizing DC’s majority Black neighborhoods.
Reflections on upEND’s 5th Birthday
Five years ago, around Juneteenth—a celebration of delayed but hard-won freedom—a small collective of insiders-turned-abolitionists planted the seeds of upEND.
upEND Demands the Abolition of ICE and Immigration Detention
Family policing abolition includes immigrant justice, and upEND demands the abolition of ICE and an end to immigrant detention, deportation, and surveillance.
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