Kristian Williams

Truthout named Our Enemies in Blue as this week’s “Progressive Pick,” which is certainly flattering. As a result, they ran a long excerpt about the events of Ferguson, New York City, and beyond. And they interviewed me about police discretion, race, class, and militarization.

I’m going to be on the doing a couple speaking events in the next few days.

First, I’ll be in Buffalo on Thursday, Sept 24, speaking at Burning Books at 7pm.

Then, on Sunday, September 27, at 4pm, I’ll be speaking in the Radical Pavilion at the Baltimore Book Festival.

Both places I’ll be speaking about Our Enemies in Blue and Fire the Cops!

Two recent interviews about the cops, and about the third edition of Our Enemies in Blue:

The first was with Peter Werbe for his radio show Nightcall. The entire show is archived here.

The second interview, by Brian Whitney, ran on the Disinformation website.

Both interviews briefly address the main themes of the book, especially the relationships between policing, violence, and inequality.

Two new excerpts from the afterword of the new edition of Our Enemies in Blue appeared this month — both concerning alternatives to police. The first, at Oregon Humanities, looks at alternatives in the Black freedom struggle. The second, at Bitch, looks at feminist attempts at justice.

I am pleased to announce, at long last, the publication of the third edition of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America.

Eleven years after the original, and 120 pages longer, the new version brings the historical narrative up-to-date and describes changes in immigration enforcement, surveillance, and crowd control. It also features an expanded afterword on alternatives to policing, and a useful introduction by Andrea Ritchie.

The cover price is $22, but I’m selling it for $20. Or, for $35, you can have Our Enemies in Blue AND Fire the Cops, a collection of my articles, essays, and lectures on policing, published last year. Just send a check to the address below.

Kristian Williams
PO Box 11112
Portland OR 97211

If you are interested in bringing me to talk at your neighborhood bookstore, library, coffee shop, union hall, church, or school, please be in touch. We’ll see what we can work out.