The Horror of Police - 9781517905927

The Horror of PoliceAuthor(s): Travis Linnemann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517905927, 978-1517905927\nSynopsis\nUnmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police\n\n Year after year the crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure world.\n\nDrawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed monster fighters but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police stories (TV cop dramas, detec.