Jeffrey T. Martin
@jematica
Anthropologist of policing at the University of Illinois. Interested in culture. Focus on East Asia (Taiwan, China, & Hong Kong) and USA.
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What if the job of police is to cultivate the political will of a community to live with itself, rather than enforce law, keep order, or fight crime? cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150174…
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.” 404media.co/doj-deletes-st…
I’m a psychiatrist. In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern. Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast: 🧵
The article "Restoring Justice or Maintaining Control? Revolutionary Roots and Conservative Fruits in Chinese Police Mediation" was announced Best Paper 2024 of the Asian Journal of Criminology. Kudos to Jeffrey T. Martin & Lingxiao Zhou! bit.ly/3X6qkwa @AJOCriminology
Among the most promising military applications of AI is staff work. Tons of routine products—intel summaries, orders, etc.—can be generated much faster by machine. Does this mean staffs will reverse the historic trend and begin to shrink? No: they’re about to explode in size.🧵
“You get into policing to change the world. You get out of policing changed by the world” - retd @AusFedPolice commander Grant Edwards @StrongCmdr
Syllabus for my new class on The Anthropology of Martial Arts academia.edu/113818768/EALC…
even when the truth isn't hopeful the telling of it is
These are times which call for gast above and beyond the flabber.
I have been able to wrench one single drop of goodness from The Machine, it has taken my entire life, destroyed me, and possibly caused me to destroy innumerable other people, but if we put this in the Goodness Bucket, once it reaches a certain level it will be a utopia
What we talk about when we talk about how we talk about what we talk about.
My latest: The arrest of a #HongKong student returning from a Japanese university has evoked fears of the transnational reach of the National Security Law (NSL). I talked to @patrickpoon, @SunnyCheungky and @tomoko_ako about the implication of this case: dw.com/en/hong-kong-s…
the year is 3403 AD, crime is legal and cop's are illegal, only one man is willing to break the law to make the law legal again: Crimecop
“You who sleep in my breast are not met with words but with dispossession within dispossession”
Glad to see this coverage of the Fengqiao model of grassroots social/stability management, which Xi has been emphasizing for several years:
Xi Jinping has revived references to the "Fengqiao Model", a Mao-era reference to a small town that was praised for mobilising people to denounce one another. Xi eschews the chaos of that period, but still believes in using people to police one another economist.com/china/2022/11/…
Please join us for the talk "Fengqiao ModelPolicing in Comparative Perspective" by Prof. Jeffrey T. Martin and Mr. Lingxiao Zhou on Nov 24, 07:30 pm.
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