Sam_Mitrani

About Sam Mitrani

Sam Mitrani is an Associate Professor of History at the College of DuPage. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009 and his book The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 is available from the University of Illinois Press.

Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
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Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People

Civil and Human Rights, Democracy, Professionalism, Racial Socioeconomic Relations, Safety/Violence, Tolerance/Humanization

Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People

In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, [...]

Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor PeopleSam Mitrani2016-11-29T17:37:25-05:00