State Policy Dilemmas

This chapter provides a conversation with Brendan McQuade, an activist scholar, and two police trainers, Jeffrey Goltz and Jhon Sanabria. Brendan McQuade explains how we can reduce our reliance on police organizations as a general emergency service and shift the responsibility of pressing social problems away from police and toward community-based organizations. Jeffrey Goltz and Jhon Sanabria explore current police training innovations in a Latin American community of the U.S. and point toward extreme examples of paramilitary violence as a warning against the possibility of shifting public safety responsibilities to non-state agencies.