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Badges without Borders

How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
  • Stuart Schrader
2019
University of California Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Silhouetted soldiers with guns in the street at night
    Q&A

    The Imperial History of US Policing: An Interview with Stuart Schrader

    Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.
    by Dan Berger, Stuart Schrader via Black Perspectives on January 29, 2020
  • Book Review

    “The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”

    During the Cold War, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
    by Kyle Burke via Jacobin on December 20, 2019
  • Book Review

    The Thick Blue Line

    How the United States became the world’s police force.
    by Patrick Blanchfield via Bookforum on December 2, 2019

Associated Excerpts

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Militarized police and an armored car.

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
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