Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-30
Books mentioned on Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier
If you thought police were deadly up till this point, wait until you hear about what unionization did to the U.S.
Robert Evans recommended The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale, discussed Police Administration, The Unheavenly City by Edward C. Banfield, and Crime Human Nature by James Q. Wilson and others, and criticized The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Police Administration
Discussed“and he wrote a book called Police Administration in 1943. And this was sort of a reaction to how most cops in big cities were drunken gangsters.”
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The End of Policing
The End of Policing by Alex S.
Recommended“But I didn't know half the real story until I read Alex Vatitali's The End of Policing this year. Vatitali points out that the core of broken windows theory is the idea that people have latent destructive traits that are unleashed without constant pressure from authority to conform and behave.”
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The Unheavenly City
The Unheavenly City by Edward C.
Discussed“Banfield's big work was the 1970 book the unheavenly city which is basically an extended argument that poor people and this is me now not Vitali the unheavenly city city is an extended argument that poor people can't be helped and so welfare programs are a waste of money”
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Crime Human Nature
Crime Human Nature by James Q.
Discussed“Wilson co-authored the book Crime and Human Nature with Richard Hearnstein, which argued that there were important biological determinants of criminality.”
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Critiqued“language about IQ and body type opened the door to a kind of sociobiology that led Hearnstein to co-author the openly racist The Bell Curve with Charles Murray, who was also a close associate of Wilson. So, The Bell Curve, if you're not aware, is a thoroughly discredited book about IQ and race that has earned a place of honor”
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