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February 2025

(In)Justice Series: Perceived Threats: Postcolonial Futures of Policing

February 5 @ 3:30 pm
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Best Buy Theater, 84 Church St SE
Minneapolis,MN55455United States
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Why are police equipped and trained to treat citizens like enemies of war? Julian Go (University of Chicago), with William P. Jones (University of Minnesota), complicates our global conversation on the colonial roots of policing and its futures. Discussing what he calls the “imperial boomerang,” Go pinpoints how the mindset of imperial expansion and domination abroad permanently changed how police treat citizens at home. Militarized policing mirrors the tools and technologies of colonial policing abroad—but its logic also mirrors a…

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