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Stuart Schrader joins us to discuss the Cold War origins of modern policing, the ongoing ICE and CBP deployments, and Zohran Mamdani’s attempts to reform the NYPD.
Stuart Schrader is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the founding director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is the author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, to be published by Basic Books in April 2026. He is also the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. He lives in Brooklyn.
Twitter/X: @stschrader1
Read the full statement from the family of Jabez Chakraborty here.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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Stuart Schrader joins us to discuss the Cold War origins of modern policing, the ongoing ICE and CBP deployments, and Zohran Mamdani’s attempts to reform the NYPD.
Stuart Schrader is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the founding director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is the author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, to be published by Basic Books in April 2026. He is also the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. He lives in Brooklyn.
Twitter/X: @stschrader1
Read the full statement from the family of Jabez Chakraborty here.
We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded.
For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week.
Subscribe today at turbulencepod.substack.com
Follow along on Twitter/X and Instagram @turbulence_pod
Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman

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