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Police disproportionately kill Native people on or near reservations, UW study finds Roughly 3 in 4 Indigenous people in the United States killed by law enforcement were on or near reservations, a new University of Washington study found.

A new study coauthored by ASA member Theresa Rocha Beardall @trochabeardall.bsky.social focuses on where police killings of Native people are taking place and finds that mortality risk is multiple times higher in and around reservations. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social

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I will be speaking about my new book BLUE POWER tomorrow evening (Tues) in Washington, DC. Register at the link below.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS: For readers sturdy enough to endure his nausea-inducing wokery, the professor's book is a valuable chronicle of how, within "a couple of decades," cops became "well enough organized to be able to command resources and respect from Congress, the White House and city halls and statehouses across the country" - and do so "without a single, national police union."

Reviews of BLUE POWER are coming in! Sturdy readers, pick up your copy today…

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The Basic Books Group is excited to be at the OAH 2026 Conference. It’s wonderful to connect with historians in-person, including authors William Sturkey and @stschrader1.bsky.social!

If you’re also in Philly, visit booth #610 to browse discounted titles across our imprints and meet our team.

Blue Power A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A tour de force ... Read it no...

Policing in America didn’t become impervious to democratic control by accident. This book traces the ascent of police as an autonomous political bloc, recounting how organizers weaponized public reaction to build unions.

By @stschrader1.bsky.social on @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social

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STUART SCHRADER IN CONVERSATION WITH GEO MAHER (AUTHOR OF A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE) 7PM APRIL 16™H AT WOODEN SHOE BOOKS 704 SOUTH ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA *masks required

Hey friends in Philly and historians attending the OAH conference, I will be speaking about BLUE POWER tonight at Wooden Shoe Books. Hope to see you there!

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The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

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Perfect pairing...I had to restrain myself from reprinting the entire tracklist of that LP on page 192.

Cop-Killer Bullets | Stuart Schrader Biaggi’s rise went hand-in-hand not just with law and order politics but with a shift in the balance of power within the police profession writ large—away from the respected chiefs, and toward the ira...

Incredibly excited to share this brief excerpt from BLUE POWER (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social), published online today by
@nplusonemag.com. It's about how a cop who became a member of Congress herded police into a powerful lobbying unit. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

"BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves" by Stuart Schrader (@stschrader1.bsky.social) is now available from Basic Books!

A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.

Badges without Borders by Stuart Schrader - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

My first book is about that very topic! www.ucpress.edu/books/badges...

Badges without Borders by Stuart Schrader - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Yes. For others, see my first book www.ucpress.edu/books/badges...

Cover of Blue Power with Red Emma's detail badge: 4/14 7pm

BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is out TODAY from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social! Pick it up from your favorite infoshop, like @redemmas.org, where I'll be speaking about it tonight at 7pm.

A huge loss, a bad sign. Plus the elimination of Hampshire College means an end to one of the best things about Hampshire: getting to take classes there on UMass tuition. (I did, all the sweeter for having been accepted to but not being able to afford Hampshire.) RIP “the Five Colleges.”

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So excited for the first BLUE POWER event tomorrow (Tuesday) in Baltimore! Events now planned in Philly, DC, NYC, Seattle, and Chicago, all listed here: stuartschrader.com

oh boy do I have a book for you...

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Blue Power Socialist Night School In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful. In city halls, police strong-arm loc...

Next session! Blue Power with Stuart Schrader

How to Hold a City Hostage Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

“Police learned from—in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.”

@stschrader1.bsky.social on his new book, BLUE POWER: HOW POLICE ORGANIZED TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEMSELVES:

"THIS IS AN URGENT BOOK-DEEPLY RESEARCHED AND BOLDLY ARGUED." -Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America

BLUE POWER is out on Tuesday! Still time to preorder from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social with discount code BLUE20: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...

Review: Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves Reviewed by Robert Dubovy In 2010, Heather Ann Thompson wrote that American cities suffered “deep racial and political conflicts” and “experienced tremendous distress from substantial economic disinvestment” after WWII. She challenged researchers to explain how the expansion of the carceral state and the rise of mass incarceration played a role.1 Stuart Schrader’s new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves…

New! Robert Dubovy reviews Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Blue Power promo blurb from Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "BLUE POWER IS A TOUR DE FORCE. BEAUTIFULLY RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN, THIS BOOK SHOWS HOW POLICE OFFICERS TRANSFORMED WHINING ABOUT RESPECT INTO WIELDING POLITICAL CLOUT."

Less than a week until the publication of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves! You can still preorder it from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social with discount code BLUE20 at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...

Yes! Thursday, April 23, 7pm at Word Up: Recirculation wordupbooks.com/event/2026-0...