What would you ask Jake Monaghan?
Policing, cities, housing, liberalism, and nonideal theory
This Friday at 2pm, we’ve got the final Substack Live of the summer, featuring Prof. Jake Monaghan, an expert on the ethics and politics of policing.
Jake is the author of Just Policing, which is a phenomenal book, as well as a number of excellent articles on cities, housing, structural injustice, and (of course) a bunch of issues related to policing—the policing of protests, “broken windows,” and much more.
If you’ve got questions for Jake, put them below! Otherwise, I’m just going to ask him about his favorite bars in LA and favorite season of The Wire.
P.S.
If you’d like to see my review of Just Policing, originally published in Ethics, you can find it here:
I haven’t been able to read his book but I assume he talks about this in detail: how does non-ideal theorizing fit with police discretion? My understanding is that Jake believes that good policing must involve some sort of police discretion, but it seems like many critics of police today argue for exactly the opposite, that police must have less discretion and must follow strict guidelines.