This chapter revisits the possibilities of the feminist tradition of the politics of care as the foundation for a critique of security and policing. The essay outlines core ideas on the politics of care, to then revisit its tensions with security and the ways in which they impact women. Care, defined as “a species activity that includes everything that we do to maintain, continue and repair the world so that we may live in it as well as possible,” as Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto define it, is essential for human life and flourishing. And yet, confined to the private sphere, care labor is primarily performed by women—who account for 75% of paid care workers and 80% of unpaid carers worldwide. The invisibility of both care work and the women who perform it, reinforced by familialist ideologies and neoliberal austerity, allows gender violence and exploitation to thrive within the household. In turn, the state’s selective politics of life and securitized promises of protection disregard the actual conditions of caregiving, leading to the criminalization of women who, out of desperation, seek to provide for their families or who mobilize to protect life and the environment. By recoding demands for care into security, surveillance, and policing driven by definitions of threats and enemies, state security stands as a false substitute for care. Building collective care networks and promoting caring democracies that prioritize trust and solidarity are crucial steps toward the establishment of a more just and caring society. Acknowledging the fundamental role of care in sustaining life, feminist theorists propose that a politics of care could significantly decrease the need for policing and security by identifying and effectively addressing people’s needs.