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Connor and Jack examine the poem "Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers?" by Junauda Petrus. They discuss police abolition, the poem’s imaginative power, and how poetry can help achieve political liberation. As these struggles continue, many groups are doing great work. One is the Young People's Action Coalition, which got Minneapolis public schools to cut ties with the police. Support them: https://bit.ly/2Ao2cxI. More about Junauda Petrus here: https://junauda.com/ Could we please give the police departments to the grandmothers? By: Junauda Petrus Give them the salaries and the pensions and the city vehicles, but make them a fleet of vintage corvettes, jaguars and cadillacs, with white leather interior. Diamond in the back, sunroof top and digging the scene with the gangsta lean. Let the cars be badass! You would hear the old school jams like Patti Labelle, Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker and Al Green. You would hear Sweet Honey in the Rock harmonizing on “We who believe in freed