Tag: Policing

US Police Must Be ‘Radically Defunded’ and Resources Diverted to Community Building, Professor Says

31 May 2020|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi
Police in the US are wrongly being used to treat the consequences of decades of de-industralisation and austerity, according to sociologist and policing expert Alex Vitale. Re-training programmes and other measures haven’t worked, he argues, because it is the nature of policing itself which is the problem.

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The Johnson Government: Working for the Brexit Clampdown

19 August 2019|Liverpool John Moores University/The Open University|Joe Sim and Steve Tombs

Boris Johnson announced a plan to increase police numbers by 20,000 and his right wing-government increases its clampdown on diaspora communities and the working class. Meanwhile the Labour Party’s response is at best muted and at worst complicity, write Professors Joe Sim and Steve Tombs. The two professors deconstruct how government policies have been dismantling the very types of programmes which might reduce crime and social conflict, while simultaneously increasing the punitive and disciplinary arm of the state.

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