Anna Bowers’s compelling and revealing new article on The [F]law looks at a controversial police technology company that deploys money, influence, and secrecy to benefit its bottom line at the expense of communities that it claims to make “safer.” What
Weapons
Gun control proposals in the United States overwhelmingly focus on regulating individuals: background checks, criminal penalties, storage regulations, and the like. But the problem of gun violence is not a problem of “bad” people: it is a systemic public health
This paper addresses the gaps that allow corporations to deny responsibility for harms caused by their weapons. In the final section, I propose some solutions to hold corporations accountable, or at least blunt some of their influence.