Audio: Tom Woods and Ryan McMaken on Policing and Abolishing the FBI

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08/27/2016Ryan McMaken

Last week, Tom Woods and I spoke on the Tom Woods show about the FBI, its origins, and its crimes. We also took a look at some issues surrounding policing and why modern law enforcement is made more dangerous and more difficult by the state's drive to manage and control every aspect of daily life.

We covered several articles from my recent three-part series on policing, found here, and on my article "Abolish the FBI."

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Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy and international relations from the University of Colorado. He was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities and Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.

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