Law Enforcement

Americans of conscience are exhausted by law-and-order grief—a chronic remorse and lamentation emanating from police violence visited upon unprotected peoples. The storied American tradition of anti…

Watch the roundtable discussion on the culture war and how the Right wields it to further their own agenda.

Sometimes it’s little details that evoke the biggest feels. I’ve been writing about the Uvalde massacre most of the past week. I’ve been so focused on facts and arguments, I haven’t sobbed. But the…

Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall talk to PRA about the historical origins of today’s Blue Lives Matter movement and its deep roots in structural systems of power.

Gardiner reviews Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, looking at what Ackerman got right, and where he could have gone further in his analysis.

Anti-Sex Work Feminists have a (deadly) listening problem: a problem listening to the people whose lives and livelihoods have been made economically and socially precarious by the state and made subject to daily violence by its carceral arm.

Hundreds of elected county sheriffs across the United States, are progressing a nativist anti-immigrant as armed agents of the state working in concert to further support and expand systems of racialized social control and expulsion.

What would the U.S look like if 9/11 never happened? Naomi Braine poses an interesting counterfactual on the rise of the Right, nativism, the increase in surveillance, and the lives of people of color.

An excerpt from Prisons Make us Safer by Victoria Law, published by Beacon Press.

A new report, excerpted here, interrogates how enforcement of coronavirus-related public health orders replicates and expands the failed law enforcement paradigm that unevenly targets populations already most vulnerable to the pandemic.