The

The Hello and welcome to behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood, adhering once again to the straight and narrow.

Two guests, two segments today. Stuart Trader will tell us how cops have organized to protect and serve themselves.

And Angela Jones will talk about a topic not frequently on the behind the news agenda, sex, and the social.

Obviously, Trump's peace deal with Iran is the big news of the week, but I thought

I'd let the dust settle a bit before calling in the expert commentary. In the interim, a few words

from frequent behind the newsguess, Ma'in Rabani, who put it well on the outlet formerly known as

Twitter the other day. The U.S. Israeli war against Iran has been such an overwhelming success

that not a single one of the war's objectives, as enunciated by Trump and Netanyahu during its initial days,

has made it into the negotiating agenda.

Regime change in Tehran, unconditional surrender by the Islamic Republic, total Iranian denuclearization,

curbs and Iran's missile programs, conventional military capabilities and

regional alliances. Not one of these issues is even up for discussion. That's the end of Boone's

comment. Of course, there are lots more questions around the future of the region, the U.S. Israel

alliance, and American imperial power to investigate, but we'll do that next week. First, a look at a perpetual feature of

American life, cop power. As I believe I've mentioned in the past, I was struck reading Italian

elite theory a few years ago by the extraordinary development over the last couple of centuries

of civilian control of the military. Yes, of course, the military has an influence on policy and

politics, but civilians generally make the ultimate decisions, and the guys of the big guns generally obey.

But it seems that we can't do the same with our police departments, who literally get away with murder all the time.

How do they have this extraordinary power?

Stuart Schrader's book, Blue Power, How the Police Organized to Protect

...