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We Keep Us Safe

Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities

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We Keep Us Safe

Written by: Zach Norris, Van Jones
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
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A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment.

As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of "Us vs. Them". By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic, smart investments - meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being, like health care and housing, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins.

In this book Zach Norris provides a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized, so they can participate fully in life, in society, and in the fabric of our democracy.

©2020 Zach Norris and Van Jones (P)2020 Beacon Press
Civil Rights & Liberties Criminology Political Science Social Community Building

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"An urgent call for safer, more inclusive communities for everyone.... Highly illuminating account of the changes required to create a more democratic society for all." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Progressive activists, community organizers, and elected officials should take note of this commonsense guide." (Publishers Weekly)

“His call for transforming the justice system into a ‘culture of care’ is clarifying and provides good fuel for debate.” (Booklist)

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