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This article examines how community gun violence (CGV) activists reenvision policing in order to reduce both CGV and police violence. Theoretically, understanding this prefigurative work necessitates reconceptualizing the overpolicing/underpolicing paradox because, like overpolicing, what I call the failure to serve is another mechanism of racial control. Drawing from over 360 hours of ethnographic observation and 39 interviews, I analyze how CGV activists address both overpolicing and the failure to serve at the individual and institutional levels. In contrast to various efforts to promote police legitimacy as a way to increase law abidance, CGV activists seek to decenter the police and divert those at risk away from the criminal justice system toward community‐based organizations to address the root causes of violence. As the United States grapples with what to do about police violence in the wake of George Floyd's murder, the experiences and voices of CGV activists are especially valuable.

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