The Importance of Institutions and Functions in Policing

The book is called just policing because I think that there are these questions about the function of policing that are really important and that don't go away. Even if you think that institutions of policing are sort of uniformly and hopelessly unjust and irredeemable, right? And then one of the things that I talk about later in the book that's really important is that there's not actually just one police function. So to start, one thing to say is that we can distinguish between institutions or agencies of policing,. The Los Angeles Police Department, and then there are functions of policing.