Shadowproof seeks reporting that examines issues involving abolition or reflects the work of abolitionist organizing.

Adam Mahoney profiles leadership of Black & Pink, a national abolitionist organization dismantling the carceral system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people.

Abolitionists have confronted violence through Transformative Justice, which models different skills and principles for approaching harm and violence.

Mental Health First is a community-centered initiative to eliminate the need for police as first responders to mental health crises.

Nicole Froio examines how some prison abolitionists are approaching gendered harm without the involvement of the criminal justice system.

Asset forfeiture is potentially a major obstacle to defunding police because the public lacks control over external revenue sources.

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, several school boards voted or are in the process of voting to defund school police forces.

Shadowproof is mobilizing resources and our platform to raise the abolition movement’s visibility, inviting journalists to pitch us stories on the subject.

Proposals for police reform by Democrats are distressingly similar to prior proposals that have done nothing to fundamentally change policing. In fact, the vast majority of provisions in legislation introduced in Congress were recommended by a task force convened by President Barack Obama five years ago.