Dr. Michael Sierra-Arévalo on Guns, Policing & the Danger Imperative

Dr. Micheal Sierra-Arévalo is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Sociology. From 2020 to 2023 served on the Public Safety Commission for the City of Austin. Today, we discuss Dr. Sierra-Arévalo's extensively researched The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing. Using in-depth interviews and rich ethnographic observations, Dr. Sierra-Arévalo breaks down how the danger imperative is driving police culture and violence within the United States.You can purchase his book The Danger Imperative from the ASU CSGS "Books for a Better Gun Debate" bookshelf on bookshop.org.