Inside the Police-Industrial Complex

‘Almost every social trend has a hyphenated “industrial complex” appended to it these days. President Dwight Eisenhower coined the term in a televised farewell address delivered on his last night in the White House in 1961. He warned that the United States’ “immense military establishment” and the newly dominant American arms industry might, together, exert such immense economic and political pressure that the federal government would become the sole arbiter of the entire enterprise of scientific inquiry and industrial research—and that conflict would become incentivized.

Perhaps because of the term’s origins, commentators who refer to a “police-industrial complex” are usually describing the militarization of police agencies: the steady adoption, which escalated after September 11, 2001, of military technologies and strategies for domestic law enforcement purposes.

But in market terms, there is also a distinct police-industrial complex, in which public-private relationships between law enforcement agencies and a wide variety of for-profit corporations have come to shape our society’s very conceptions of policing and our priorities for justice.’

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