How To Deter FBI Surveillance Crime: Make Them Write It Down
A recent spy-court document suggests that fear of getting caught stops the FBI from a lot of its "backdoor searches." How might a criminologist view this phenomenon?!
The War at Home
Based Fiona Hill
Here's a rare example of an eminence willing to take clear-eyed stock of most of the world's rejection of coalescing Cold Wars. PLUS: Elon Musk, antisemitism, capitalism and Magneto! AND: Get used to being a needle in U.S. intelligence's HAYSTAC!
A Strangler in a Strange Land
Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely with his bare hands on video, but every institution in New York seems to be on Penny’s side. Why?
The Killing of Jordan Neely In The Shadow of The Rent Guidelines Board
Homelessness can happen to anyone in this economy, and anyone means you and me. Don't live in New York if you're afraid of New Yorkers.
The Chud Era of National Security Leaks
Expanding the Security State means relying on millions of people with secret clearances. As time passes, more and more of them are going to be inveterate posters. PLUS: Tech bros kill each other and blame the homeless!
Will Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Close The Homan Square Black Site?
The incoming mayor put closing Homan Square in his platform. Veteran organizers and abolitionists are optimistic he'll follow through. PLUS: Is Chinese diplomacy ending the Yemen war?
Biden: Department of Homeland Security 'As Important As It’s Ever Been'
Maybe in the sense that it's never been important. But as DHS turns 20, the administration is signaling that the post-9/11 institution is here to stay
When They're White, They're 'Tactical Athletes'
Edited by Sam Thielman
IN REIGN OF TERROR, now available in paperback, I wrote:
Never would America acknowledge that the violent, reactionary dangers that it attributed to its enemies were also part of its own history. That was the meaning of Oklahoma City. It was the meaning of January 6.
Michael Molcher on Judge Dredd and The Endpoint of 'Policing by Consent'
Molcher's new book, I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, is a great one. He speaks to FOREVER WARS about the politics of crime
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Cop City
We get a potential glimpse into the future of the War on Terror at Atlanta's $90 million law-enforcement training center—and the police shooting of a protester. PLUS: U.S. strikes in Somalia, raids in Syria and ominous signs at Guantanamo