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Kristian Williams

Our Enemies in Blue

Police and Power in America

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Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police misconduct in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackma… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-84935-216-1
  • EAN: 9781849352161
  • Produktnummer: 22541614
  • Verlag: AK Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 592 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'379 KB

Über den Autor


Kristian Williams is the author of American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy, and Fire the Cops! He was one of the editors of the collection Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, and is a contributing editor at the movement security web journal, DCSC.ws. He has written about policing and state violence for Clamor, Counterpunch, New Politics, In These Times, and Toward Freedom. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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