Dr. Samantha Simon on Police Academies and the Politics of Force

In this episode of Guns Unpacked, Dr. Samantha Simon, an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy and the School of Sociology, joins us from the University of Arizona. Dr. Simon discusses her new book Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence, which examines the effects of police training on officers. She also discusses her experiences while researching for the book, a year-long process of ethnographic fieldwork at four police training academies.You can purchase her book Before the Badge from the ASU CSGS "Books for a Better Gun Debate" bookshelf on bookshop.org.