Rosa brooks podcast
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Rosa Brooks
Rosa Brooks is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and a law professor at Georgetown University. She previously worked at the Pentagon as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; in 2011, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Brooks has also served as a senior advisor at the US Department of State, a consultant for Human Rights Watch, and a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines, and she is a frequent television guest, with appearances on the Charlie Rose Show, the Rachel Maddow Show, the Today show, Meet the Press, and Erin Burnett OutFront. Brooks lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband Joe, her daughters Anna and Clara, and a Brittany spaniel named Scout.
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Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law, has spent much of her career observing the relationship between violence and law enforcement. She has worked in the State Department and at the Pentagon, and has taught courses on international law and national security. In 2016, Brooks published “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything,” an examination of the military’s outsized role in the execution of American foreign policy. Five years ago, Brooks decided to train as a reserve police officer in Washington, D.C. She participated in training courses, and, from 2016 to 2020, patrolled the District of Columbia for twenty-four hours each month. Her new book, “Tangled Up In Blue,” documents her time as a reserve officer, and presents a larger critique of contemporary policing. Brooks is particularly interested in the ways that cops are trained to anticipate violence. “The chief lesson learned at the academy,” she writes, is that “anyone can kill you at any time.”
I recently spoke by phone with Brooks, who also co-founded the Innovative Policing Program at Georgetown.
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About Rosa Brooks
Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown’s Innovative Policing Program. From 2016 to 2020, she served as a reserve police officer with the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. She has worked previously at the Defense Department, the State Department and for several international human rights organizations. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal, and she spent four years as a weekly opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times and another four as a columnist for Foreign Policy. Her most recent book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016; it was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and named one of the five best books of the year by the Council on Foreign Relations.
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