Open AccessDefunding the ramparts and institutional theory: The master’s tools will fell the master’s house
Author(s) -
Michael J. DeValve
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of community safety and well-being
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-4298
DOI - 10.35502/jcswb.160
Subject(s) - fell , sociology , political science , criminology , law , geography , cartography
Witnessing current events in Ferguson, and now in Milwaukee, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, of course Portland, and now Kenosha, Wisconsin, where protests against police violence are met with yet more police violence, the question naturally arises: Why are police so seemingly insistent on actively working counter to their own organizational best interest? This essay poses this troubling question and derives part of an answer for it from institutional theory.