Angela Wright: Over 100 American universities have contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense. This has allowed universities to procure grenade launchers, armoured vehicles and military assault rifles like the M-16.
Tag Archives: American policing
How the Anti-Saloon League, responsible for Prohibition, shaped modern racist policing
Prohibition created the perfect storm for the mass incarceration of ethnic minorities, who’d been driven into the contraband trade through inequality of economic opportunity, then zealously policed for being involved
American crime writer Don Winslow on guns, politics, drugs, and the police
The author takes inspiration from The Sopranos, The Wire and—in his new book, The Force—hip-hop