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    Police arrest an African-American protester, whose face is bloodied following a confrontation with police, during an anti-Vietnam War protest near 14th street in Manhattan, New York City, New York following the Kent State shooting, May 7, 1970. (Stuart Lutz/Gado/Getty)

    How armed police officers on campus have become a ubiquitous part of American college life

    Angela Wright: Over 100 American universities have contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense. This has allowed universities to procure grenade launchers, armoured vehicles and military assault rifles like the M-16.

    New York police on motorcycles wrap a demonstration in fog to prevent the demonstrators at the march-past in front of a building in which President Herbert Hoover is speaking in New York, 1930. (Photo by Imagno/Hulton Archive/Getty)

    How the Anti-Saloon League, responsible for Prohibition, shaped modern racist policing

    Prohibition created the perfect storm for the mass incarceration of ethnic minorities, who’d been driven into the contraband trade through inequality of economic opportunity, then zealously policed for being involved

    American crime writer Don Winslow on guns, politics, drugs, and the police

    The author takes inspiration from The Sopranos, The Wire and—in his new book, The Force—hip-hop