The horror of police / Travis Linnemann.

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"Year after year the crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Linnemann, Travis (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Police brutality > United States. Discrimination in law enforcement > United States. Police corruption > United States. Horror in mass media. Brutalités policières > États-Unis. Discrimination dans l'application des lois > États-Unis. Corruption policière > États-Unis. Horreur dans les médias. Discrimination in law enforcement. Police brutality. Police corruption. United States.
Physical Description:	279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction Police Story, Horror Story
Bad Cops and True Detective
The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line
RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus
Monsters are Real
The Unthinkable World.