Kiteline, a radio program on prison conditions in Indiana just posted an audio interview with me on their site. We talk about torture, community policing, militarization, police unions, and the emergence of the police as a political power unto themselves.
I’ll be speaking at Indiana University about the history and nature of the police, and the causes of the crisis in policing.
Here are the details:
Thursday, December 1, 2016 — 7pm
Indiana University – Bloomington
Global and International Studies, room 0001
sponsored by Students Against State Violence
On October 22, I’ll be giving a presentation at the University of Bamberg, discussing what has changed in policing, the related scholarship, and the politics surrounding it, in the time since I first wrote Our Enemies in Blue.
My talk is part of a four-day conference called Black America and the Police.
Since the invasion of Iraq there’s been a renewed debate in the social sciences about participation in military affairs, and counterinsurgency in particular. Those opposed to militarizing the disciplines seem to have prevailed — for which I am very glad. Unfortunately their arguments were fallacious. I explain why in the latest issue of Middle East Report.
