City Under Siege
Once the War on Terror began, city dwellers everywhere found themselves living in occupied territories
The Thin Blue Lie
Why civilian investigations of police misconduct do more to excuse it than prevent it
Queer, Interrupted
Cops have no business telling queer youth “it gets better” while they protect the regime that makes it worse. Better to bash back than to wait.
The Prison-Educational Complex
When police are deployed in high schools, typical behavioral issues are reframed as criminal ones.
Objects of Derision
Cop comedies invite us to laugh at the terror police induce by being both less and more than human
Tweeting the Beat
How an out-of-work Wisconsinite achieved Internet celebrity by tweeting police dispatches from his hometown of Sheboygan
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
If cops are supposed to be programmed by the law and constitutional restrictions on their power, we should fear the budding signs of their artificial intelligence.
Batman Occupied
Batman is too big to fail, in so many ways