In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronagethe practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slaveryas a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day. Tracing the long and ongoing historical geography of Black freedom struggles in the face of antiBlack police violence in these communities Winston shows how marronage provides critical lessons for reimagining public safety and community wellbeing. These freedom struggles take place in what Winston calls maroon geographiessites of flight from slavery and the spaces of freedom produced in multigenerational Black communities. Maroon geographies constitute part of a Black placemaking tradition that asserts lifeaffirming forms of community. Winston contends that maroon geographies operate as a central method of Black flight holding ground and constructing places of freedom in ways that imagine and plan a world beyond policing.