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Kristian Williams presents American Methods
Monday May 12, 7PM @ Red Emma's
In the US a police officer is more likely to kill a civilian than be killed by one. Between 1996 and 2005, 575 officers were killed in the line of duty—an average of 64 deaths per year. Yet in a recent joint investigation, ColorLines and The Chicago Reporter found that approximately “9,500 people nationally were killed by police during the years 1980 to 2005.” That’s 380 civilian deaths per year, roughly six times the amount of police fatalities. The Bureau of Justice reports a steady decline in police fatalities since the early 1970s. The same cannot be said about the rate of deadly police force, whether deemed “justified” or “wrongful” by police standards, against civilians. Don't miss this special presentation by author Kristian Williams of his latest book American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination!
Kristian Williams is the author of American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination
(2006), shortlisted for the Oregon Book Award, Confrontations: Selected Journalism (2007),
and Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (revised edition, 2007). His writing
has appeared in national publications such as CounterPunch, Columbia Journalism Review,
In These Times, The Progressive, and in the collection We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise
of Global Anti-Capitalism. He is a member of Rose City Copwatch in Portland, Oregon.
“American Methods cogently gives the reader evidence of how the US
uses torture to control society and to protect US hegemony, compelling
us to rethink power and to question the terror enacted in the name of
democracy.”—ColorLines
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