Pacifying the Homeland
Subtitle: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780520299757
Subjects: Terrorism, prevention; National security, united states; Intelligence service, united states
Description: "In the last decade, the United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called "fusion centers." Fusion centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have repeatedly criticized these centers for failures. Why have these security systems persisted? 'Pacifying the Homeland' travels inside the world of intelligence fusion and sees past the apparent failure of fusion centers, to reveal a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation"--Provided by publisher.