Danny and Derek are back with Matthew Guariglia, senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and visiting scholar of history at Emory University, for the second part of their discussion on the history of policing in New York City.
Love the new recurring segment “what’s the fucking point if no one is willing to have a serious conversation about alternatives to neoliberal capitalism.”
This series has been so good and in-depth. There's been so much discourse about the origins of policing since 2020 - much of it not very smart - and it's great to hear a historian really grind down into how these institutions evolved. I'd be interested to learn more about how immigrant communities perceived the police, how they felt the experience of state violence in the US compared to back home. I'm thinking of the Pennsylvania State Police, founded as a mounted unit for hounding coal & iron workers; the workers, mostly Eastern European immigrants, called them Cossacks.
If you want to tie to current events - Policing and Empire - I am curious how I've heard Kenyan cops are being paid and shipped to Haiti to suppress unrest. The exact mechanics of who why and the money making that happen could be interesting.
Love the new recurring segment “what’s the fucking point if no one is willing to have a serious conversation about alternatives to neoliberal capitalism.”
This series has been so good and in-depth. There's been so much discourse about the origins of policing since 2020 - much of it not very smart - and it's great to hear a historian really grind down into how these institutions evolved. I'd be interested to learn more about how immigrant communities perceived the police, how they felt the experience of state violence in the US compared to back home. I'm thinking of the Pennsylvania State Police, founded as a mounted unit for hounding coal & iron workers; the workers, mostly Eastern European immigrants, called them Cossacks.
If you want to tie to current events - Policing and Empire - I am curious how I've heard Kenyan cops are being paid and shipped to Haiti to suppress unrest. The exact mechanics of who why and the money making that happen could be interesting.