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DESCRIPTION:The History of Policing in the United States:\na conversation with Kristian 
 Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue\n\nBy BART: West Oakland station, 
 cross 7th, north on Center 3 blocks, left on 12th 2 blocks.\nBy Bus: 13 
 line to 12th/Campbell or 19 line to 12th/Peralta\n\nNo subject is more 
 central to recent political debate in Oakland than the function of the 
 police in our communities. Kristian Williams brings a historical 
 perspective to current events, allowing us to better understand the role of 
 policing institutions in U.S. society from slave patrols to the 
 present.\n\nPraise for Our Enemies in Blue:\n\n“Should become mandatory 
 reading for all police academy\nstudents.”—Damon Woodcock (Ret.), 
 Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau\n\n“A well-researched, historically 
 grounded, and mordant critique of American policing past and 
 present.”—Christian Parenti\n\nEven critics have a difficult time 
 imagining a world without police.  But just what is the role of police in a 
 democracy: to serve the public or to protect the powerful? Tracing the 
 evolution of the modern police force back to the slave patrols, this 
 controversial study observes the police as the armed defender of a violent 
 status quo.\n\nWritten for both the lay reader and for scholars, Our 
 Enemies in Blue demonstrates that police misconduct isn’t just a matter 
 of “bad apples,” but a function of the very nature of policing in the 
 US. Williams examines the populations most often subjected to police abuse 
 and the forms that abuse takes, delving into the role of police brutality 
 in repressing political dissent and in preserving existing structures of 
 inequality.\n\nKristian Williams is also the author of American Methods: 
 Torture and the Logic of Domination\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/30/18584778.php
SUMMARY:Author Kristian Williams on the History of Policing in the US
LOCATION:The Continental Club\n1658 12th Street, \nWest Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/30/18584778.php
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