30 Issues | A History of Criminal Justice and Policing

A federal soldier stands guard in a Detroit street on July 25, 1967 as buildings are burning during riots that erupted in Detroit following a police operation.

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University who recently wrote the introduction to The Kerner Report (The James Madison Library in American Politics) (Princeton University Press, 2016), reviews the audio archive of American criminal justice and race relations, including the tumult of 1968.