Imperial Policing

"The Policing in Chicago Research Group exemplifies how abolitionist practitioners can and must strive to create autonomous collective approaches to research and praxis. Crucially, Imperial Policing models a form of scholarship that decenters ‘the academy’ and exposes the repressive tendencies of its supervisory apparatus: universities, liberal foundations, and the state. Chapter by chapter, this book radically deepens abolitionist analyses of U.S. domestic warfare, reminding us once again that to police Chicago is to police the world (and vice versa)." -Dylan RodrÍguez, author of White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

"Imperial Policing is an intellectual, methodological, and political tour de force in abolitionist sociology. With historical depth, empirical richness, and theoretical heft, it interrogates a critical but still underexamined feature of contemporary carceral politics and state repression: the racialized production and mobilization of data. A must-read for scholars and activists alike!" -Michael RodrÍguez-MuÑiz, author of Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change

"Imperial Policing is an inspiring and theoretically insightful books [sic] that provides powerful tools both for grassroots social movements and for scholars who seek to partner with them."-Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Imperial Policing is imminently readable, which is not a given for a book about surveillance technology. The book is not awash in acronyms and does not get caught up in minutiae. The authors instead maintain focus on that which needs to be known in order to effectively resist state violence, policing, and surveillance."-Sociology of Race and Ethnicity