Max Felker-Kantor

DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

It was never very effective at preventing drug use.

The program was about education. But it was also about surveillance.

The police are an insulated political institution within cities empowered to enforce a racialized social order.

How calls for “real reforms” have resulted in measures that further shield police from real accountability.

Amid calls to defund police, cops are framing themselves as victims. We must remember who is really being brutalized.

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.