THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 142: How Municipal Politics Help Shield Law Enforcement From Accountability w/ Max Felker-Kantor

The fight against police violence has become a central part of the political discourse in contemporary America post George Floyd. The slogan, "Defund the Police," came about in the wake of that George Floyd Moment. Remedies from police cameras, challenging police unions, and tampering down the use of the police officers Bill of Rights have been suggested to cut down on the numbers of police killings of unarmed civilians. But there are institutional mechanisms that entrench police representation in the upper echelons of municipal governments that also have a strong role in providing cover for police when they abuse their power and cause harm to civilians. In this episode we will ask: "How does Municipal Politics help shield police from accountability?"   About Max Felker-Kantor (https://www.maxfelkerkantor.com/): Dr. Max Felker-Kantor is the author of Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). He is an American historian who specializes in twentieth century American and African American history with a focus on race, policing, and social movements. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Truthout, History News Network, and Knock L.A. His articles and book chapters have been published in the Journal of Urban History, Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Boom California, Black and Brown Los Angeles: A Contemporary Reader, the Pacific Historical Review, and the Casden Annual Review.   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/7SZSs-PpSKE   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert