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Alex Vitale is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing (2017). Find him on Twitter @avitale.
Sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the U.S. policing crisis begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over to police.
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