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Four years after the murder of George Floyd, a new documentary traces the long record of police abuses.

Many anarchists hate cops because cops are part of “the state.” True enough, from one angle. But seen from another, it might be more useful to think of them as a political bloc with their own interests, maybe even a “class fraction” or a Weberian status-group. As Stuart Schrader has argued, this is especially true now, after several rounds of neoliberal “police reform” efforts that entrenched police identity and their sense of group interest through “professionalization” and the emergence of entrepreneurialized competition between municipalities for limited state funding. As th...

Some cities have reconsidered such partnerships in recent years, notably Durham, NC, which in 2018 passed a resolution barring its Police from receiving "military-style training."

The training of UAE police officers by the LAPD has stirred new questions about the appropriateness of its close ties with overseas security services.

Five United Arab Emirates officers graduate from L.A.'s Police Academy, raising new questions about LAPD ties to overseas law enforcement, including Israeli security forces.