Status Updates From Policing the Open Road: How...

[I]n 1928, a New York City police commissioner defended aggressive, even unlawful, police tactics on the ground that "any man with a previous record is public property."

"The lack of remedies reflected the absence of a problem: officers did not go around bothering respectable citizens with searches." Some heavy loadbearing words you have there, using "respectable" and "citizens."

Invoking the panopticon, Foucault and all, as a matter of pragmatism is certainly a bold move, and by bold I mean fucked.

In the words of several scholars, "No form of direct government control comes close to these [traffic] stops in sheer numbers, frequency, proportion of the population affected, and in many instances, the degree of coercive intrusion." (What better way of ringing in 2026 than by looking at what you're up against when arguing for public transportation in the US of A.)

This book is good, it’s just super dry. Which I knew, but still…

Super interesting to view prohibition as the inflection point that led to the creation of the modern police state!!

You know, just another book about how cars are ruining society…