Police abolitionist book club (Letter to the Editor)
Mark Joseph says racial capitalism is at the heart of many problems.
Montclair Beyond Policing
Group focuses on helping one another
When the Montclair Area Solidarity Network called its Night Out for Safety and Liberation a “celebration of community,” they set out to make it just that.
Though the turnout was small, about 15 people, the group held conversations about safety through different avenues, like art, work sheets and fellowship over food. Meeting in...
Montclair residents taking to the streets for night out
Two events on one night focus on community relationships.
Montclair residents invited to reading group (Letter to the Editor)
The Abolition Reading Group will meet every Monday evening in August from 7 to 8 p.m.
Montclair Beyond Policing sends encouraging words to prisoners
Local organization pens letters to incarcerated individuals.
Why not a ‘blotter’ for wage theft? Abuse of the environment? (Letter to the editor)
Erik Jacobson says the focus on property crime and other police matters takes away from a broader exploration of safety and well-being.
Reject the $300K grant to Montclair police for an anti-hate task force (Letter to the editor)
Two Montclair Beyond Policing members say that even though Mayor Sean Spiller says the full community will be involved, more money flowing through police isn't the answer.
$300,000 for Montclair police isn’t the answer to fighting hate (Letter to the Editor)
Anneliese Scherfen says: "And if the police are the right ones for the job (spoiler, they’re not), why isn’t this task already part of their work?"
Invest in Montclair’s community, not its police department (Letter)
"What if we tried to abolish the causes of harm in our society instead of policing and criminalizing its effects?" Mark Joseph asks
‘Bad apples’ aren’t the problem with policing (Letter)
Montclair Beyond Policing member Mark Joseph says he has nothing against Montclair's school resource officer individually, but a "good apple" isn't enough.