policing

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  7/30/2020
  

  The Best Histories of U.S. Policing, According to Experts

  A panel of experts including historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Max Felker-Kantor, Carl Suddler, Stuart Schrader and Melanie Newport assemble a reading list for understanding policing and its relationship to racism and social class in the US. 

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• SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
  6/26/2020
  

  What Defunding the Police can Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy

  by Stuart Schrader

  To start this process will require looking inward, but it will be impossible without looking outward as well — by rethinking the U.S. role in the world, shrinking the Department of Defense’s massive footprint, and redirecting its resources and legitimacy toward more peaceful streets.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  6/26/2020
  

  UHA Summer 2020 Virtual Roundtables On Race, Policing And Abolition (JULY 1)

  The Urban History Association will live stream a panel discussion on the history of racist police violence and organization to fight against it. 

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• 6/28/2020
  

  Will George Floyd’s Murder Be Trump’s Undoing?

  by James D. Zirin

  Donald Trump seems to mistake the temper of the times. Will his instinct to divide the nation be his undoing? 

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• 6/28/2020
  

  The Slow Path to Police Reform in Northern Ireland

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  It took deep reforms and patience to build trust in policing across the sectarian divide of Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Accords. Does that process have lessons for the United States? 

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• SOURCE: The Abusable Past
  6/25/2020
  

  Abolition or Bust: Liberal Police Reform as an Engine of Carceral Violence

  by Charlotte Rosen

  Recent work by scholars including Naomi Murakawa, Jodi Melamed, Elizabeth Hinton, Marisol LeBrón, Simon Balto, Max Felker-Kantor and Alex Vitale show that liberal reforms to policing fail to solve serious problems and reinforce the power and reach of police departments to the detriment of the disadvantaged.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/24/2020
  

  Don’t Be Fooled by Seattle’s Police-Free Zone

  by Margaret O'Mara

  Protest is forcing our city to reckon with truths that can and should make white citizens like me uncomfortable, and that remind us just how much Seattle is like the rest of America: impossibly divided, and impossibly full of hope.

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  6/23/2020
  

  What ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons Actually Do

  Policing historian Stuart Schrader explains the military roots of many less-lethal police crowd-control weapons and the connections between military occupation and contemporary policing. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/23/2020
  

  In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy Is Essential Part of Police Training

  In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/16/2020
  

  Why America’s Institutions Are Failing

  Two major parts of American institutional life--law enforcement and the regulatory state--have failed spectaculary as the culmination of long-term historical trends. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/13/2020
  

  The History Of Policing And Race In The U.S. Are Deeply Intertwined

  NPR's Michel Martin speaks with professor Keisha Blain about the history of policing in the United States.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  It's Time for White Parents to Have The Talk with their Children

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Many African American parents have a common experience of teaching their children about racism and its dangers. Not enough white parents talk with their children about how racism affects their lives. 

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• 6/14/2020
  

  The Vexations of History In An Age of Police Violence: A Ventura County California Perspective

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Protests like those in the author's home city show that minority communities across the nation have longstanding historical grievances against police departments that must be addressed with meaningful change.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/6/2020
  

  How Racist Policing Took over American Cities, Explained by a Historian

  “The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says.

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• SOURCE: CityLab
  6/5/2020
  

  Why This Started in Minneapolis

  There’s a dissonance, locals say, between Minneapolis' progressive rhetoric and the reality of how people of different races experience completely different cities. Read how history professor William D. Green and others have experienced these divides, and how they propose to bridge them.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/8/2020
  

  'Cult Of Glory' Reveals The Dark History Of The Texas Rangers

  Author Doug Swanson chronicles centuries of abuse within the famed Texas law enforcement agency, including burning villages, hunting runaway slaves and murdering Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  6/7/2020
  

  Not Just George Floyd: Police Departments Have 400-Year History Of Racism

  Slave patrols lay at the roots of the nation's law enforcement excesses, helping launch centuries of violent and racist behavior toward black Americans, as well as a tradition of protests and uprisings against police brutality. Historian Sally Hadden explains how.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  6/9/2020
  

  Subverting New York’s Police Brutality Policy

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Longstanding opposition from the Patrolman's Benevolent Association, the union of New York City police officers, has made meaningful civilian oversight of the police impossible. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/2020
  

  Yes, American Police Act Like Occupying Armies. They Literally Studied Their Tactics

  by Stuart Schrader

  The founders of modern policing quelled foreign uprisings. ‘Demilitarizing’ police will be harder than taking away their tanks.

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• SOURCE: MIT Technology Review
  6/3/2020
  

  Why Filming Police Violence Has Done Nothing to Stop It

  The evidence suggests body cameras and other technological solutions to police violence are inadequate because the police are protected against consequences even if their misdeeds are recorded.