After Black Lives Matter

Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed

The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way we think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little in the way of substantive reforms? After Black Lives Matter argues that the failure to leave an institutional residue was not simply due to the mercurial and reactive character of the protests. Rather, the core of th...