Allen Ruff talks with Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton, editors of the critical new collection, “Policing the Planet: Why the Policng Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter.” Listen to today’s episode for an important discussion of current urban policing strategies, the concurrent wave of mainly racialized state violence resulting from “broken windows policing” and “zero tolerance,” and the rise of people’s movements in response to police impunity.
Jordan T. Camp is a postdoctoral fellow in Brown’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Christina Heatherton American Studies scholar and historian of anti-racist social movements.