Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Crystal Vielula With simple text

With simple text

From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals

But no matter how hard she tries

APublishers WeeklyBest Books 2022: Comics pick

from National Book Award Finalist Randy Ribay

Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Crystal Vielula With simple textA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023 Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut imagines a radically positive future where police arent in charge of public safety and community well being. Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder