Review: Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Reviewed by Robert Dubovy In 2010, Heather Ann Thompson wrote that American cities suffered “deep racial and political conflicts” and “experienced tremendous distress from substantial economic disinvestment” after WWII. She challenged researchers to explain how the expansion of the carceral state and the rise of mass incarceration played a role. Stuart Schrader’s new book Blue […]

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