This article explores grassroots practices of community safety and security in Brooklyn, New York through a framework that centers the abolitionist practices imbedded in Black neighborhood collective action. Literature on safety and security often conflates the two concepts, not considering how grounded applications of the two may produce different outcomes and approaches to community well-being. Additionally, we know little about how Black communities build safety and security from the ground up. And while academic scholarship on abolition provides a robust theoretical foundation, more examples of how communities could and do employ police abolition are needed. Utilizing archival research and oral history interviews, I argue that a crisis of police legitimacy compelled alternatives to formal policing in New York City during the urban crisis, or the postwar period of massive urban divestment and hyper-ghettoization. These efforts included masculinized security practices such as neighborhood patrols and protests, while community safety practices included forms of neighborhood sociality grounded in feminized and queer relationships of care and concern. These efforts, which critiqued institutional racism and neglect and emerged from the indigenous knowledge base and social networks of community members, provide considerations for recovering abolitionist practices in Black neighborhood collective action and implications for building alternatives to policing. This article contributes to literature on Black communities, collective action, and abolition by offering an intersectional analysis of the various ways Black social and political engagement centers on practices of safety and security and does not always fixate on conscripting a police response.

本文通过一个以黑人社区集体行动中嵌入的废奴主义实践为中心的框架，探讨了纽约布鲁克林社区安全和保障的基层实践。关于安全和安保的文献常常将这两个概念混为一谈，没有考虑这两者的基础应用如何产生不同的结果和社区福祉的方法。此外，我们对黑人社区如何从头开始建立安全保障知之甚少。虽然关于废除死刑的学术奖学金提供了坚实的理论基础，但还需要更多关于社区如何能够并且确实采用废除警察的例子。利用档案研究和口述历史访谈，我认为在城市危机期间，警察合法性的危机迫使纽约市采取正式警务的替代方案，或者战后大规模的城市撤资和超级贫民窟化时期。这些努力包括社区巡逻和抗议等男性化的安全实践，而社区安全实践包括基于女性化和酷儿关怀和关注关系的社区社交形式。这些努力批判制度性种族主义和忽视，并从社区成员的土著知识库和社会网络中脱颖而出，为恢复黑人社区集体行动中的废奴主义做法提供了考虑，并为建立警务替代方案提供了启示。这篇文章对关于黑人社区、集体行动、