Targets in the New Security Economy

 

Here is my latest at Huffington Post, a piece titled “Targets in the New Security Economy.”  Using the NYPD’s appalling stop-and-frisk procedures as a starting point, I look at the way our booming security economy is based upon (irrational) white fears about people of color.  I include some pretty surprising information about the rise of for-profit prisons and then extend that discussion to our bloated homeland security budget.