History of the Modern Police with Stuart Schrader

Today, Stuart Schrader, a scholar at Johns Hopkins, joins us&#160;to talk about his book:&#160;Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. We go through the history of modern policing in America, how these tactics were spread around the world during the cold war, and finally the repercussions when they came home.<br/><br/>Here is the video that we referenced during the interview:<br/><br/>Excerpt from chapter 5 of&#160;Badges Without Borders, &#8220;Policing and Social Regulation&#8221;<br/><br/>Policing the globe engendered new approaches to governance. The public safety project insisted upon the universality of its approach to crafting the first line of defense, uniting cops from across the United States and across the globe in a single fraternity. Advising police overseas differed from patrolling a beat at home, however. Innovation, flexibility, and patience were essential. The experience affirmed and reinforced police experts&#8217; belief in the vital necessity of cutting-edge policing expertise as a bulwark against societal chaos.<br/><br/>Many older public safety advisors retired from law enforcement when they left the Agency for International Development (AID), but around a hundred rotated back into ordinary police positions at home, now with a new outlook. Lee Echols, who initiated the public safety mission to Bolivia in 1957, was elected sheriff of Yuma County, Arizona, in 1960. A campaign ad included endorsements from Office of Strategic Services director William Donovan and the Office of Public Safety&#8217;s (OPS&#8217;s) Theo Hall. Echols lost a bid for reelection after one term, during which he spent lavishly and implemented rigorous FBI-led in-service training for his men, in effect imitating OPS-style reforms. This vigor was premature, however&#8212;the law and order craze still lay in the future. Echols was obliged to resume overseas advisory work.<br/><br/>After OPS shut down, Adolph Saenz became a prison administrator in New Mexico, recruiting OPS buddie