Stuart Schrader
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Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@BasicBooks, 2026) and Badges Without Borders (@ucpress, 2019)
Brooklyn, etc
Joined November 2011
In my new article “Cop Cities Mock Cities,” out yesterday in @LAReviewofBooks, I step back and ask how we got to the point that 70 police training facilities are planned. When it comes to contemp urban political economy, what does the cop city represent?
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RT @nikhil_palsingh: The truth about US decline is that factory towns became prison towns which became deportation hubs. A return to the ol….
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ICE wants to make immigration enforcement as efficient as FedEx or Amazon. Louisiana was poised for this moment.
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BLUE POWER, Basic Books, 2026.
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Today’s beach read: Police Against the Movement, by @JoshClarkDavis. It is SO good! Out in October.
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RT @PrisonPolicy: 🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda. The actual sco….
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RT @nikhil_palsingh: Hard to over-emphasize how central this has been to hollowing the center and fueling the right over the past decade.
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RT @poltheoryother: .@adam_tooze on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza:
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This is the first article I have seen with a cyclist who explains—and opposes—how Israel engages in sportswashing w/ the team Israel Premier Tech.
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Sporting event of the year begins in like 12 hours!.
👑 A crown is waiting for its Queen on the #TDFF2025 !. Qui se verra couronnée sur le #TDFF2025 ? 👑. 👋 @GoZwift l #WatchTheFemmes. 🎨
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're pro….
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RT @llchristyll: Naidu on Columbia’s settlement: “New civil rights violations will be imagined, new vistas of anti-Americanism on campus wi….
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When the government is often behaving unchecked by the law, the idea of a binding contract is a fantasy.
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Including a commitment to appoint “three dozen public safety officers with arrest powers.”.
Breaking News: Columbia University will pay a $200 million fine to settle a dispute with the Trump administration and restore research funding to the school.
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A memorial to the disappeared.
The clerks at the store where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
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I appreciated @EmmaJanePettit’s effort to Chotiner the clowns who wrote this dumb paper.
Just read this paper discussed in the @chronicle reported by @EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11 .
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RT @llchristyll: “The extent to which the Administration acted on close to five thousand tips from Canary Mission and from Betar U.S….which….
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In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.
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But surely if universities take on massive amounts of debt to create AI institutes it will pay off.
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RT @dcli: I wrote for @JewishCurrents about the history of international law and the question of Palestine, and the bloodstained lever that….
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Palestinian history shows that armed struggle campaigns often catalyze gains in international lawmaking.
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“The de Blasio story serves as an illustration of the significant, and wildly undemocratic, power that cops and their unions have over the elected mayors that they supposedly serve.” (cf, Schrader, Blue Power, 2026).
This is the best argument I've seen for Zohran dumping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. From @ghostrunnerblog .
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RT @postoctobrist: the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a….
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