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In The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale provides a critical examination of policing in the U.S., focusing on its origins in abuse, corruption, and racism. Throughout ten parts, he discusses the political funding and militarization of the police, historical protection of elite interests, the school-to-prison pipeline, policing's mishandling of mental health, interactions with unhoused people, criminalization of sex work, the war on drugs, gang culture, border policing, and the surveillance of marginalized communities, while proposing potential reforms and alternatives. The book includes discussions of systemic racism, police violence, and the criminalization of marginalized groups.