David Correia

This book arms activists on the streets—as well as the many who have become concerned about police abuse—with a critical analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The book contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. So, state sexual assault becomes...

Violent Order offers a radical theory of police, arguing that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialised and patriarchal order. It suggests that the police project, to fabricate and defend capitalist order, must patrol an imaginary line between society and nature, transforming nature into inert matter made available for accumulation. Police don't just patrol the...