Kristian Williams is the author of American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy, and Fire the Cops! He was one of the editors of the collection Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, and is a contributing editor at the movement security web journal, DCSC.ws. He has written about policing and state violence for Clamor, Counterpunch, New Politics, In These Times, and Toward Freedom. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Acknowledgments
Author Preface
Introduction by Joy James
Chapter One: Police Brutality in Theory and Practice
Chapter Two: The Origins of American Policing
Chapter Three: The Genesis of a Policed Society
Chapter Four: Cops and Klan, Hand in Hand
Chapter Five: The Natural Enemy of the Working Class
Chapter Six: Police Autonomy and Blue Power
Chapter Seven: Secret Police, Red Squads, and the Strategy of Permanent
Repression
Chapter Eight: Riot Police or Police Riots
Chapter Nine: Our Friendly Neighborhood Police State
Afterword: Making Police Obsolete
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
