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

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