This Friday, March 17, the Portland Mennonite Church will be screening “Do Not Resist,” a documentary about the militarization of the police. I will be speaking on a panel after the movie, along with Katherine McDonnell of the ACLU, and Mireaya Medina from the City of Portland’s Community Oversight Advisory Board.
The church is at 1312 SE 35th.
Doors at 5:30; movie at 6; discussion to follow.
Kiteline, a radio program on prison conditions in Indiana just posted an audio interview with me on their site. We talk about torture, community policing, militarization, police unions, and the emergence of the police as a political power unto themselves.
I’ll be speaking at Indiana University about the history and nature of the police, and the causes of the crisis in policing.
Here are the details:
Thursday, December 1, 2016 — 7pm
Indiana University – Bloomington
Global and International Studies, room 0001
sponsored by Students Against State Violence
On October 22, I’ll be giving a presentation at the University of Bamberg, discussing what has changed in policing, the related scholarship, and the politics surrounding it, in the time since I first wrote Our Enemies in Blue.
My talk is part of a four-day conference called Black America and the Police.
