There’s rot behind the “Thin Blue Line.”
In this episode, I talk about the institutional problems with policing in America. I breeze by the typical arguments about race and riots and focus on what I see as the real problem – an institutional culture steeped in authoritarian violence. I trace its roots to police militarization and the “war on drugs.”
Show Notes
- Officer who killed unarmed, sobbing man to get $31,000 a year pension
- An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land – William Stringfellow
- Identity Politics and Race – GodArchy podcast episode
- Police Departments Institutionalizing Violence