@emfoxwell I think it’s why I like Connelly - there’s definitely a critique of policing in there and alternative conceptions of justice at times. Still though, I question the very idea of punishment and the punitive. Too often - not always, but mostly - the alternatives are still punishing rather than restorative or transformative, or even just forgiving. Society often needs disrupting and the trope of a cop setting society to rights again after such disruption is to excuse and normalise the coercive enforcement by police of a certain kind of ‘order’ in the interests of power and capital. #MarkNeocleous has written some great stuff on this, among others.

It is precisely the repeated formula of crime fiction that, while familiar and entertaining to us who read or watch it, makes it so effective as a propaganda tool. So I remain intellectually conflicted.

Thanks for the link to the book about Connelly- it looks interesting.

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