The Dig: Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck
Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been the growing centrality of real estate for urban economies,
November 3, 2017
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November 3, 2017
The Dig: Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck
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<p><span>Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been the growing centrality of real estate for urban economies, according to a new article published in the journal </span><i>Social Forces </i><span>b</span><span>y Adam Goldstein, a professor of sociology at Princeton, and Brenden Beck, a PhD student in sociology at CUNY. Thanks to our sponsors at Verso Books. Check out </span><i>The End of Policing</i><span></span><span>by Alex Vitale v</span><span><a href="http://ersobooks.com/books/" rel="nofollow">ersobooks.com/books/</a></span><wbr /><span>2426-the-end-of-policing S</span><span>upport us with $ at <a href="http://patreon.com/TheDig" rel="nofollow">patreon.com/TheDig</a></span></p>
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