Weaponized Policing: Police Violence in São Paulo and LA

How police reproduce social, spatial, and racial inequalities in two global citiesFrom Donald Trump to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, political leaders endorsing "law and order" - specifically through aggressive policing strategies - have supported the formation of carceral states in self-proclaimed democracies.In Weaponized Policing, Sebastián Sclofsky provides a comparative lens on this dynamic, taking a look at police-civilian violence in the United States and Brazil, and its impact on people's understanding of race, space, and citizenship. The book argues that the socio-economic transformations of the last half-century, marked by the rise of neoliberal capitalism, have produced extreme levels of inequality, and created new forms of vulnerability that are managed and reproduced by police.The pacifying processes conducted by the police in their production and reproduction of social order produce the categories of black, poor, and periphery, transforming these subjects into the ultimate "ot