
Red Lights, Blue Lines
Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”
The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification
by Anne Gray Fischer
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall
by Anna Lvovsky
We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
by Mariame Kaba, edited by Tamara K. Nopper and with a foreword by Naomi Murakawa
March 23, 2023 issue