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Maria and Julio talk about police and prison abolition with\xa0Charlene Carruthers, author and founding member of Black Youth Project 100, and\xa0Ejeris Dixon, director of Vision Change Win. They imagine a world without police, dive into community safety, and get real about what calls for defunding the police mean. ITT Staff Picks: - Mariame Kaba, an organizer whose work focuses on dismantling the prison industrial complex writes, \u201cYes, we mean literally abolish the police,\u201d in this op-ed for\xa0The New York Times. - "These calls to defund and disband police have roots in decades of prison abolitionist organizing, which aims to end incarceration and policing in favor of a society grounded in collective care and social provision," writes Amna A. Akbar for\xa0The New York Review of Books. - Kayla Reed and Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson write about the demands of The Movement for Black Lives\xa0in this piece for Essence.\xa0 Photo Credit:\xa0(AP Photo/Ragan Clark) \xa0

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