@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {7316},
      author = {Wilson, Alexandrea},
      title = {Defunding the Police as Environmental Justice},
      journal = {Advocates' Forum, 2021},
      address = {2021},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Policing, rooted in the surveillance of Black folks and  used to subordinate minority communities, is often  understood as an icon of institutional racism.  Environmental racism refers to the policies that create and  build on racial disparities, again in terms of the space in  which people live. Food insecurity, climate change, and air  pollution are the symptoms of environmental racism because  they disproportionately impact low-income communities of  color. This paper explores the connection between two  responses to these forms of anti-Black violence embedded in  space: the environmental justice movement and the defund  the police movement. It argues that anti-Black violence,  through policing, contributes to the normalization of  environmental racism that primarily burdens Black and Brown  communities. It closes with discussing the contribution  that social workers could potentially provide to the  environmental field and what a focus on the environment in  which people live could mean for social work more broadly.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/7316},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.7316},
}