«In praise of War Power, Police Power:

Challenges and exhorts the reader, and is bursting with ideas, connections and complex relations. But from the outset and without pretension, it is clear that the book begs to be taken on a different, altogether grander level. . It is not simply a book about war and police-order, but can be read as a paradigmatic book.»

Illan rua Wall, London Review of International Law

«If you want to understand the origins and purpose of police powers, and their relation to law, to the state, and to bourgeois social order, there is no better author than Mark Neocleous and no better book than this»

David Correia, author of Police: A Field Guide

«Mark Neocleous's modern classic has never been more timely. The substantial new Introduction takes this pioneering text into the present with a trenchant discussion of recent events and debates. In its coruscating critique of the failures of a liberal response to police power, it is, again, a provocative and urgent intervention.»

Stuart Elden

«Neocleous explodes the liberal myth that police exist to to keep us safe or to enforce the law. Instead, they constantly reproduce a social order rooted in race and class exploitation at the heart of racial capitalism.»

Alex Vitale