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By Kristian Williams
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Let's commence with the fundamentals: violence is an inherent a part of policing. The police signify the main direct capability through which the country imposes its will at the citizenry. they're armed, proficient, and certified to take advantage of strength. just like the probability of arrest, the specter of violence is implicit in each police come across. Violence, in addition to the legislation, is what they represent.
Using media experiences by myself, the Cato Institute's final annual research indexed approximately seven thousand sufferers of police "misconduct" within the usa. yet such tales of police brutality basically scratch the outside of a countrywide epidemic. each year, tens of hundreds of thousands are framed, blackmailed, crushed, sexually assaulted, or killed via law enforcement officials. 1000s of thousands of bucks are spent on civil judgments and settlements each year. person lives, households, and groups are destroyed.
In this largely revised and up-to-date variation of his seminal learn of policing within the usa, Kristian Williams indicates that police brutality isn't an anomaly, yet is outfitted into the very that means of legislations enforcement within the usa. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed formative years being gunned down within the streets, "peace keepers" have continuously used strength to form habit, repress dissent, and guard the strong. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that either makes ancient feel of this legalized social pathology and maps out attainable alternatives.
Kristian Williams is the writer of yankee tools: Torture and the good judgment of Domination, harm: Notes on Torture in a latest Democracy, and fireplace the law enforcement officials! He used to be one of many editors of the gathering lifestyles in the course of Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, and is a contributing editor on the flow safety net magazine, DCSC.ws. He has written approximately policing and country violence for Clamor, Counterpunch, New Politics, In those occasions, and towards Freedom. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Park's cousin Colonel 39 Kim Chong Pil was director of the ROK [Republic of Korea] CIA. " Here it is worth pausing for a moment to explain that in recruiting cadres for the Korean CIA, the CIA used the same method it used to staff the Vietnamese CIO. As revealed by John Marks in The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, the CIA sent its top psychologist, John Winne, to Seoul to "select the initial cadre" using a CIAdeveloped psychological assessment test. " CIA psychologists "gave the tests to 25 to 30 police and military officers," Marks writes, "and wrote up a half-page report on each, listing their strengths and weaknesses.
At a signal, all the lights except one focused on Captain Mai went out, and the recruits stripped off their white shirts and dark trousers. " Whipped into an ideological fervor, the CIA's political cadres were then sent into villages to spread democratic values and undermine the infrastructure. "It's a GVN presence that's really comprised of your own people that have, by God, gone off and been washed in the blood of the lamb. They've been trained and they've seen the light," Donohue palavered. 35 "They spoke the local dialect, and they're there to defend and focus people on their own defense, to try to enlist the people into doing something positive.
37 Indeed, with the creation of Vung Tau and the synthetic Revolutionary Development Cadre program, South Vietnam began slouching toward democracy. But it was an empty gesture. The rule in South Vietnam was one step forward followed by two steps back. CHAPTER 5: PICs "A census, if properly made and exploited, is a basic source of intelligence. " [1] As counterinsurgency expert David Galula notes above, a census is an effective way of controlling large numbers of persons. Thus, while CIA paramilitary officers used Census Grievance to gather intelligence in VCcontrolled villages, CIA police advisers were conducting a census program of their own.