Cop Cities, Mock Cities

A fantastic essay on the new horizons of police power by Stuart Schrader, first published in the Los Angeles Review of Books October 12 2024.

"However undemocratic its planning may be, the cop city is not a police state. The cop city has superseded the police state. The cop city mounts no ideological defense of the value of political dispute, nor does it assume that contestation can be eradicated. Instead, it equips the state for endless opposition without amelioration. It transforms the police training scenario into a political lifeworld."