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Alex S. Vitale

is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College where he is coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project. He is also the author of The End of Policing, due out July 2017 from Verso Press.

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The Myth of Liberal Policing

By Alex S. VitaleApril 5, 2017
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
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