Badges Without Borders, 56 - (American Crossroads) by Stuart Schrader (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, <i>Badges Without Borders</i> shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home.<br /> <br /> In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistance--and how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A "smoking gun" book, <i>Badges without Borders </i>offers a new account of the War on Crime, "law and order" politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"Stuart Schrader's <i>Badges without Borders</i> is a stunning achievement. A conceptual <i>tour de force</i> that simultaneously combines political theory, sociology, and social history, Schrader's book examines how the United States pioneered a kind of professional carceral internationalism. The United States has long resisted scholarly efforts at categorical definition. How, after all, does one study a nation with borders but no boundaries? Schrader shows us how."--Greg Grandin, author of <i>The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America</i> <p/> "Schrader's superb and finely written book shows beyond any doubt that US law enforcement deliberately policed its own citizens like the military did Cold War 'enemies' elsewhere. Deemed counterinsurgents in both contexts, <i>Badges without Borders</i> illustrates precisely how the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex came together through law enforcement in an attempt to crush anti-racist and anti-colonial activists here and abroad. Everything from riot control to stop and frisk policing and the use of military-grade weapons in U.S. cities have their roots in national security policy. In this excellent work of history, the archives finally reveal just how right Baldwin was to call Harlem 'occupied territory.'"--Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of <i>The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America</i> <p/> "Going beyond the lament of police militarization, <i>Badges Without Borders</i> weaves together domestic policing and foreign military occupation in a single--and singularly powerful--history of global order maintenance. More than a beautifully crafted, fine-grained history of police modernization, this book's history of terror reminds us of a critical lesson: U.S. elites built the arsenal of oppression against subversives and revolutionaries by working across national boundaries. Liberation will require the same."--Naomi Murakawa, author of <i>The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America</i> <p/> "<i>Badges Without Borders</i> reveals the way American bureaucrats promoted professionalization of policing as a counterinsurgency strategy abroad, and then drew upon their experience to manage urban unrest at home. Fascinating and deeply researched, it makes crucial contributions to the history of security practices and the US role in the world."--Mary L. Dudziak, author of <i>War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences</i> <p/> "Schrader's elegant, compelling, and eye-opening narrative, bursting with a palpable urgency, shows us that coercive policing in America's streets has always been tightly interwoven with American-sponsored state violence abroad, whether in Vietnam, Brazil, or Guatemala. With this book, we can never look at policing in America in the same way again. No consideration of policing today can proceed without taking it into account."--Julian Go, author of <i>Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688 to Present</i> <p/> "In this eloquently written and persuasive book, Schrader makes many original and generative contributions to scholarship and civic life. He presents telling critiques of what have become shibboleths of the left: about the Cold War as an alleged boon to anti-racism, about viewing domestic police work and overseas military operations as unconnected, and about the presumed innocence of liberals and liberalism in the construction and maintenance of racist subordination.--George Lipsitz, author of <i>How Racism Takes Place </i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Shows how the logic of policing and counterinsurgency, as developed in interlinked ways both and home and abroad, were and remain inseparable from racialized logics that see empowerment of non-whites as inherently subversive of the established order."-- "Small Wars Journal"<br><br>"Schrader's new history of the carceral state is an important resource for scholars, public policy reformers, and political activists alike."-- "Boston Review"<br><br>"This is a meaningful addition to the literature on law, criminology, sociology, political science, and history. . . . Highly recommended."-- "CHOICE"<br><br>"<i>Badges Without Borders</i> helps us to better understand the nature of police power and the dangerous allure of reform."-- "Punishment & Society"<br><br>"In his distressing and erudite history, Schrader documents how many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. His argument, which <i>Badges Without Borders </i>persuasively demonstrates, is that the era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state."-- "Bookforum"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Stuart Schrader is Associate Research Professor of Africana Studies and Associate Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University.
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