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The Long Arm of the Law: On the Rise of the Global “Good Cop”

Lyle Jeremy Rubin The Baffler
Protesters march against police brutality in Oakland, California.
Badges Without Borders is a book about America’s post-WWII “global transit of police ideas and personnel.” Its critical framework is indebted to a rich legacy of thought centering on the racist underbelly of the international economic order.