Rinaldo Walcott locates his contribution to the Field Notes series on current issues, On Property, in the present political moment, while using historical references and events to argue for the abolition of police and property. For Walcott, a professor at the University of Toronto whose research areas include Black diaspora cultural studies, “property is a problem.” Using the “communal philosophy and anti-capitalist stance” of Rastafarianism and “ideas expounded by radical Black feminism,” Walcott builds a case for why abolition of property would lead to the “transformation of our society as we know it.” Walcott agrees that while abolition might be a revolutionary – and even radical – idea, the basis for it lies in the history of slave ownership and “Black unfreedom.” Referring to the work of cultural theorist Fred Moten, he argues that it is “the gap between the commodified ownership of the slave and the slave’s refusal of this status … that gives birth to abolition as a reimagining.” Drawing on Katherine McKittrick’s essay “Plantation Futures,” Walcott argues that “the ideas forged in the plantation economy continue to shape our social relations.” Modern policing, as a result, is an evolution of policing Black people as property.