Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect & Serve Themselves

A book talk on "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect & Serve Themselves," a history of how American police unions and a rank-and-file movement won power above public oversight. Historian Stuart Schrader, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, narrates how officers organized from the 1960s onward to gain control over working conditions, impunity, and budgets. He is joined by discussant Dr. David Brotherton, a professor of sociology at John Jay College. The event is part of John Jay College's Future of Public Safety Initiative and is sponsored by the Office for the Advancement of Research.