Pan-African Community Action (PACA) calls for Community Control Over Police—not police reform, oversight, or community policing. We mean full democratic power for Black working-class communities to determine the policies, priorities, and personnel of the institutions that claim to protect and serve them.
Develop an understanding of Community Control. Share these concepts with neighbors. Engage PACA to learn how to build towards Community Control.
This campaign is a call to shift power, enforce democracy, and end the colonial relationship between the police and the Black community. We aim to build a new social force—one accountable to the people, designed to protect and serve as a matter of policy, not as an empty slogan.
As the demand for Community Control grows, we must be clear: reformist organizations and foundation-funded initiatives will attempt to dilute this call into proposals for “police reform” or “civilian review.” These efforts are not progress—they are diversions meant to keep power in the same hands.
Settling for review when we can win power is a betrayal of our communities. There is no dignity in reforming a colonial relationship; the only option is to end it.
The fight for Community Control Over Police is the fight to build people’s power. It is about transforming our communities from being policed to being self-governed. This means organizing, educating, and mobilizing toward a future where public safety emerges from collective accountability, not occupation.
PACA invites all who share this vision to join us in this struggle—to envision, demand, and build the institutions of real power.
