Matthew Guariglia, senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and visiting scholar of history at Emory University, joins the program for a two-part discussion on the history of policing in New York City.
The bit about the Orange Riots, with Irish-Catholic cops being deployed against their communities of origin and starting to construct their own distinct ethnic identity as cops, is super interesting, and makes a lot of sense in this Blue Lives Matter moment. This comes up a lot in modern discourse about black police, but I had no idea cop identity politics goes back that far.
The bit about the Orange Riots, with Irish-Catholic cops being deployed against their communities of origin and starting to construct their own distinct ethnic identity as cops, is super interesting, and makes a lot of sense in this Blue Lives Matter moment. This comes up a lot in modern discourse about black police, but I had no idea cop identity politics goes back that far.
This was a great episode I really don't know how you guys come up with such interesting and diverse topics.