Title Badges without borders : how global counterinsurgency transformed American policing / Stuart Schrader

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 393 pages) : illustrations, map Series American Crossroads ; 56 American crossroads ; 56. Contents Rethinking race and policing in imperial perspective -- Byron Engle and the rise of overseas police assistance -- How counterinsurgency became policing -- Bringing police assistance home -- Policing and social regulation -- Riot school -- The imperial circuit of tear gas -- Order maintenance and the genealogy of SWAT -- "The discriminate art of indiscriminate counter-revolution." Summary "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing explains how the Cold War U.S. effort to professionalize police in other countries reverberated domestically, leading to the rise of the carceral state. The book traces the history of the Office of Public Safety, the U.S. government's overseas police assistance arm tasked with countering communist insurgency in over 50 countries, and illustrates how it called upon the leading U.S. policing experts. It shows that the Office of Public Safety was a key instrument of Cold War U.S. empire, a configuration of geopolitical power that tried to escape the history of racism within the United States but remained captive to it. In following the cross-border exchanges and circulations of policing experts, Badges Without Borders reveals a hidden dimension of U.S. global power and illustrates the bureaucratic battles that empowered police to wage the Cold War in Third World countries. In turn, this group of policing experts shaped state responses to political unrest and Black freedom struggles at home, instituting more aggressive forms of racialized social control. The book reveals how central overseas projections of U.S. power were to policing tactics and technologies that shape life on American streets today"--Provided by publisher Analysis american empire cold war declassified national security expose foreign and domestic global counterinsurgency imperial power intelligence materials law and order politics military overseas police leaders police textbooks police training policing city streets racial control technical assistance united states war on crime war Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Public Safety -- History Counterinsurgency -- United States -- History -- 20th century Racial profiling in law enforcement -- United States -- 20th century Social control -- United States -- 20th century Militarization of police -- United States -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- General. Counterinsurgency Militarization of police Racial profiling in law enforcement Social control United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019006628 ISBN 0520968336 9780520968332

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