Design isn’t just the product of an output; it is also the way in which we understand the structures of things.

The questions of design in policing are not just about outputs, or “What are we making?” It is the weapons, it’s the spaces that are constructed specifically for policing on behalf of police…and some of the ways in which we have created structures of thought, value and being that are impacted by and that inform how policing happens.

We don’t need better handcuffs or better jails; we need better systems that prevent people from having to interact with police, in situations that would put them into handcuffs and into jails.