Michael Shank | The New York Review of Books

Michael Shank

Michael Shank is an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. A former senior congressional staffer and former adviser to the United Nations and the Vatican, he has written extensively on police accountability and militarization and has worked on conflict resolution projects in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. (May 2020)

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How Police Became Paramilitaries

Military hardware not only makes civilian cops look like soldiers; it makes them more likely to act like soldiers, too.

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