Episode 10: Tracey Meares

Yale Law School professor Tracey Meares joins us to discuss the past and future of police reform, including her government and academic work in this area. We touch on what the Obama administration did and didn’t do after Ferguson. We also discuss how calls for defunding the police and prison abolition play out in the policy sphere.

Additional Reading:

• Tracey L. Meares, Policing: A Public Good Gone Bad, The Boston Review (Aug. 01, 2017).

• Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (2015).

• Barry Friedman et al., Changing the Law to Change Policing: First Steps (2020).

• Amna A. Akbar, An Abolitionist Horizon for (Police) Reform, Calif. L. Rev.

• Tim Newburn, The Causes and Consequences of Urban Riot and Unrest, Annual Review of Criminology (2020).

• Bernard E. Harcourt, The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against its Own Citizens (2018).

• Stuart Schrader, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (2019).