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Julian Go

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The Racist Origins of U.S. Policing

Modern policing is linked to overseas colonial projects of conquest, occupation, and rule. Demilitarization requires uprooting that worldview.

by Julian Go via Foreign Affairs on July 16, 2020

Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US

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A line of workmen drilling.

A Prison the Size of the State, A Police to Control the World

Two new books examine how colonial logic has long been embedded within US carceral systems.

by Marisol LeBrón via Public Books on December 17, 2024

Streetlamps and red trail lights glow in a dark city street.

A Nation of Cop Cities

The push to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of state power.

by Matthew Guariglia via Inquest on September 26, 2024

Abstract collage artwork called "the weight of scars."

A Framework to Help Us Understand the World

Out of a common history emerged racism, capitalism, and the whole world. This offers us a clue on how to change that world.

by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via Hammer & Hope on July 26, 2022

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020

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

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

by Stuart Schrader via The Guardian on June 8, 2020

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