The Horror of Police

Jarrod Shanahan is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022) and co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System (Reaktion Books, 2022).

Jarrod Shanahan

Send More Cops: On Travis Linnemann’s “The Horror of Police”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Jarrod Shanahan is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois. He is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022) and co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System (Reaktion Books, 2022).