“We’re police and prison abolitionists, so we never are here to support the head prosecutor of the state, whose job, in my eyes, is to incarcerate black people.” Raser and Assata’s Daughters hope that one day, the massive amounts of money that funds local police and jails gets invested in services for poor communities, especially poor black ones.
“Black communities in Chicago don’t have resources that people need to survive… part of what imagining what a world without police and prison looks like is [imagining] a world where we have services like mental health care, where we have schools.”