The American Founders inherited from England a profound distrust of military power, tested it in the crucible...
Police
The citizen’s wary gaze, formed in the crucible of revolution, slavery, and urban unrest, remains fixed upon...
Armored vehicles roll through quiet suburbs, drones scan urban skies, and tactical squads deploy in neighborhoods where...
The persistence of racialized violence, economic exploitation, and social surveillance reveals that the crisis of policing is...
History shows us that authoritarianism does not descend all at once. It arrives gradually, disguised as safety,...
Pete Hegseth’s embrace of Christian nationalism inside the Pentagon is more than symbolic. It is a test...
The foundation of ICE in 2003 marked more than a bureaucratic reorganization. It signaled the redefinition of...
Predictive policing is not a neutral tool. It is a technological expression of old power structures, reframed...
In the drive to catalog every face, every breath, every blink, we risk losing something human, something...
By the Eighteenth Dynasty during the New Kingdom, the Medjay were an elite paramilitary police force. Introduction...
There are numerous ways one may interact with the police. You could be stopped by the police...
He founded the first criminal investigation bureau — staffed mainly with convicts. By Dr. Daisy SainsburyWriter This...
During the Great Fire of Rome, the vigiles took to looting the city rather than enforcing law...
Allowances were usually made for people who had some social status on their side. Introduction and Early...
In many urban centers, law enforcement came to be viewed as an “occupying force.” By Dr. Chuck...
Accountability is an essential part of a healthy law enforcement agency. Like any organization, every law enforcement...
The English already had developed a model of policing Ireland and their other colonies. Police accountability is...
A satirist posted a parody of a police Facebook page. He was arrested and jailed for four...
Peisistratus (605-527 BCE), who was a ruler of Athens, has been called the father of formal policing....
How the creation of a unified Metropolitan Police force in 1829 led to the birth of the...
The word police is one of the most universal and similar terms even in many non-English speaking...
The history of crime, criminal justice, and law enforcement is not easy to unravel. By Dr. Xavier...
Suppression of civil protest reflected a prevailing ‘make do’ administrative culture steeped in a Victorian ethos. Introduction...
Colonists considered lying, idleness, drunkenness, and even general bad behavior as crimes. Colonial laws emphasized the survival...
Some interventions could help to reduce racism and rein in the use of unnecessary force in police...
Modern policing has passed through various developmental stages that can be explained by typologies – this is...
Social media has made it easier to expose white supremacists who serve in law enforcement. Increased attention...
Slave patrols slowly morphed into policing units in charge of breaking up insurgencies after the Civil War....
Officers who take an oath only to defend the Constitution as they interpret it should be a...
At least five of those arrested for storming the Capitol building on January 6 were active law...