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A review by indigonight
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams
5.0
An excellent socio-political analysis of the role of police in American society. The writing is not dull, which makes it a digestible read.
It does a very good job at explaining how while the police are a manifestation of the state's power, they are also not entirely accountable to the state. It is a very sobering book in parts, and the stories of police entrapment, surveillance, and other abuses of power from the 1960s to the War on Terror are chilling.
While Vitale's book the End of Policing had me advocating all the ways the function of police could be better performed if replaced, this book has me pondering and thinking more deeply why the police are an institution that cannot be allowed to continue to exist.
It does a very good job at explaining how while the police are a manifestation of the state's power, they are also not entirely accountable to the state. It is a very sobering book in parts, and the stories of police entrapment, surveillance, and other abuses of power from the 1960s to the War on Terror are chilling.
While Vitale's book the End of Policing had me advocating all the ways the function of police could be better performed if replaced, this book has me pondering and thinking more deeply why the police are an institution that cannot be allowed to continue to exist.