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• SOURCE: Inquest
  1/24/2023
  

  Family Histories where Black Power Met Police Power

  by Dan Berger

  Fighting back against mass incarceration today means learning from the stories of Black Power activists who fought against the expansion of police power and surveillance since the 1960s. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/16/2022
  

  Inside Riotville: How the Military and the Police Prepared for Domestic Rebellion

  by Bench Ansfield

  “Riotsville” was the name the Army gave to the training grounds it built, beginning in 1967, to school police departments and military personnel in the art of domestic counterinsurgency. Sierra Pettengill's new documentary tells its story. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/15/2022
  

  The Modern City was Shaped by Policing Black Women's Sexuality

  by Simon Balto

  In tribute to the work of Anne Gray Fischer, a historian of policing reflect on how central the goal of controlling sexuality was to the growth of police forces and the geography of urban America. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  8/10/2022
  

  Reasons to Defund the FBI—That Have Nothing to Do with Trump

  by Alex S. Vitale

  The FBI's history of repression and service to the powerful should override any fleeting satisfaction liberals feel about the search warrant the Bureau served at Mar-a-Lago. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  8/4/2022
  

  Teaching the History of Campus Police

  by Yalile Suriel

  The FBI's Law Enforcement Bulletin offers an insight into how law enforcement in the 1970s increased its presence on college campuses and redefined the function and goals of campus police forces. Here's how one professor has used this source in class. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/31/2022
  

  HBO's "We Own This City" and Baltimore's Long History of Police Brutality

  by Mary Rizzo

  A Baltimore historian notes that the Black community's efforts to fight police brutality are much older than the War on Drugs. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/24/2022
  

  Historian Donna Murch on the Long History that Led to BLM

  "In terms of repression and resistance, it takes people and communities time to understand what is happening to them."

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• SOURCE: Religion & Politics
  5/17/2022
  

  Why American Christians "Back the Blue" so Fervently

  by Aaron Griffith

  Evangelicals within police forces and in the public at large have been encouraged to understand a scriptural mandate for police authority that often short-circuits consideration of other Christian obligations for justice, argues a historian of evangelical attitudes to law and order. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2022
  

  Ted Cruz is an Unwitting Publicist for Left-Leaning Books

  If you have written a book about racism, policing, or other controversial issues, your best promotional strategy is to have Senator Cruz wave your book around in a televised Senate hearing. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/16/2022
  

  Don't Use Anti-Asian Violence to Throw More Money at Police

  by Crystal Jing Luo

  Business interests in Oakland have hijacked the safety concerns of Asian Americans to support arming police in service of real estate development that threatens low-income housing. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  3/7/2022
  

  The Most Revealing Moment in Former Louisville Police Officer's Trial

  by Matthew Guariglia

  Former officer Brett Hankison didn't hesitate to defend his actions (shooting 10 bullets through a glass door during an unannounced raid) as legitimate. Policing has shaped the law in such a way that his confidence is justified. 

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• SOURCE: Protean
  2/25/2022
  

  Broken Homes of the Drug War

  by David Helps

  Rather than a mistake or an isolated instance of excess, a notoriously brutal and destructive LAPD raid on an apartment complex in 1988 should be seen as part of a political attack on the city's Black poor, enabled by cultural stereotypes of families of color. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/25/2022
  

  The Other Pentagon (We Don't Think About)

  by Andrea Mazzarino

  The creation of DHS in the wake of the 9/11 attacks was a profound reorganization of the government that created a prodigiously-funded "security" apparatus that views threats to Americans through the dangerous lens of "insiders" vs. "outsiders". 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  12/14/2021
  

  Introducing “Disciplining The Nation”

  by Matt Guariglia and Charlotte Rosen

  "Rooted in racial slavery, settler colonialism, and U.S. empire, policing and incarceration in the United States were slowly and meticulously built over time for the purpose of subordinating, punishing, and exploiting populations –and historians have the documents to prove it."

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• 9/26/2021
  

  The Rogues Gallery: The Messy Growth of Modern Policing in Gilded Age New York City

  by John Oller

  John Oller's new book on the rise of the NYPD combines a history of the social dynamics of the booming city, with its extremes of wealth and poverty, and a gallery of colorful rogues – in and out of uniform – whose battles shaped American law enforcement for good and ill. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/18/2021
  

  Prison Tech Comes Home: Tenants and Residents in the Surveillance State

  by Erin McElroy, Meredith Whittaker and Nicole E. Weber

  Landlords have combined technologies developed for screening tenants in the 1970s with more recent digital surveillance and facial recognition systems developed in prisons to dramatically increase control over their tenants during an affordable housing crisis. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/6/2021
  

  Did Last Summer's BLM Protests Change Anything?

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  A commission convened by the Mayor of Philadelphia exemplifies the American preference for symbolism over substance in recently proclaimed "racial reckonings." 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/9/2021
  

  Can School Discipline Be Fixed?

  by Campbell F. Scribner

  "One might reasonably ask, 'By what right do schools punish students in the first place?' Unfortunately, Americans have never really been able to answer that question."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/29/2021
  

  Addressing Gun Violence Means Looking Beyond Policing

  by Menika Dirkson

  Between 1969 and 1976, Philadelphia saw success with a program to connect youth to social services, education and work opportunity, but turned toward militarized policing in the 1970s. This history should guide urban leaders away from the "tough on crime" approach.

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• SOURCE: Electronic Frontier Foundation
  7/29/2021
  

  It’s Time for Police to Stop Using ShotSpotter

  by Matthew Guariglia

  Surveillance systems intended to detect the auditory signature of a gunshot are inaccurate, meaning "police officers routinely are deployed to neighborhoods expecting to encounter an armed shooter, and instead encounter innocent pedestrians and neighborhood residents."