Slavery in the United States didn’t end with the 13th Amendment – it remained as punishment for a crime. And boy, did America come up with some crimes.
POLICE & PRISONS
Explore the birth of police departments and the nature of prisons - including the latest reporting and best research about how our current justice system was built, and whom it serves.
THE END OF POLICING – Alex Vitale
Everything you’ve been told about policing is wrong – sociologist Alex Vitale can prove it.
RISE OF THE WARRIOR COP – Radley Balko
This influential book argues (from a libertarian perspective) that the drug war, Patriot Act, and militarized policing are not only ineffective, but unconstitutional and un-American.
