This piece delves into how police, prisons and borders utilise militarised masculinities to police, guard, enforce, control and kill on behalf of the interests of capital, privilege and power. It examines the ways in which the state and those employed within these state institutions enact power through violence. Unless challenged and dismantled, these structures will contribute towards harmful power dynamics, practices and brutality throughout the world in the name of security or protection. It highlights the work of numerous abolitionist movements that are working collaboratively to dismantle militarised ways of being and striving for healthier, non-violent communities.