Brilliant. As debates about defunding and abolishing the police rage in the wake of yet another wave of racist police murders, this book clearly lays out the facts about the police. From their origins as slave catchers, strike breakers and colonial oppressors to today, not much has changed. They don’t exist to solve crime—indeed they themselves commit crime on a mass scale, and they protect the system that drives ordinary people to crime in the first place. Instead they exist to protect the rich and their system of oppression and exploitation. We can’t reform the police. We can certainly campaign to defund them. But ultimately they must be abolished, and that means a revolution to overthrow capitalism.