I suggest a historical perspective that I only recently discovered: Graeber and Wengrow’s Dawn of Humanity has some very interesting anthropological/archeological examples of how communal police and security has been organized in the past (distant or more recent).
Most notably some cool “clown posse” police that’s cyclical with summer/winter.
Seconded. Lots of fascinating stuff in that book. It really helps the imagination to know some of the huge variety of different ways people organized in the past.
I suggest a historical perspective that I only recently discovered: Graeber and Wengrow’s Dawn of Humanity has some very interesting anthropological/archeological examples of how communal police and security has been organized in the past (distant or more recent).
Most notably some cool “clown posse” police that’s cyclical with summer/winter.
Seconded. Lots of fascinating stuff in that book. It really helps the imagination to know some of the huge variety of different ways people organized in the past.
I’m on like chapter for, and it is FASCINATING
FOUR REAL
… and now I can’t edit it
You should be able to. And it would be great as it would make my all caps joke absolutely inunderstandable, in very internetical way.
Isn’t it?! I have only a few books in my life that had that much impact on my worldview.