Challenging the Policing Paradigm Rooted in Right-Wing “Folk Wisdom”
Broken windows policing is not only all too often lethal, it also contributes to the use of excessive and illegal force in the context of the most mundane police encounters.
Simone Browne, an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, describes her new book, Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness, as a conversation between Black Studies and Surveillance Studies—the latter a young discipline devoted to investigating the technological and social dimensions of surveillance.
American political time is often rhetorically divided into before and after the attacks of September 11, 2001. But this distinction both romanticizes the past and obscures some of the institutional architecture underlying the War on Terror.
Between 1990 and 2000, the number of people in U.S. prisons and jails increased from 292 per 100,000 to 481 per 100,000. But the number of women in prison rose even more sharply, doubling over the ten-year period.
