Protect and Serve

About this Episode

We’re back. After an introductory, warm-up conversation about swearing (in which we do not swear) and travels, we talk with Seth Stoughton about policing in America. What should a police officer and a police force be? Warriors or guardians? Seth teaches us some history and shares his own experiences as a former police officer. Also how to pronounce Stoughton.

This show’s links:

• Seth Stoughton’s faculty profile and writing
• Seth Stoughton, Law Enforcement’s ‘Warrior’ Problem (read online here if you don’t want the PDF)
• Seth Stoughton, A Former Cop on What Went Wrong in McKinney
• Seth Stoughton, What a Police Expert Calls the Most Ignored Cause of Cop Violence
• Klein et al., The Good Stranger Frame for Police and Military Activities
• Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
• All Thing Considered, Police-Involved Shootings Highlight Problem With Law Enforcement 'Culture'
• Seth Stoughton, What Would a Better Ferguson Response Have Looked Like?
• U.S. Department of Justice, Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
• This American Life, Right to Remain Silent; see also Graham Rayman, The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct
• Jamelle Bouie, Criminal Neglect