Kristian Williams

Kristian Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America; Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime; and Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising (all from AK Press).

The Normandale Park Shooting

A New McCarthyism?
Against the Current, No. 240, January/February 2026

A Primer on Abolition
Against the Current No. 227, November/December 2023

The Black Panthers in Portland
Against the Current, No. 159, July/August 2012

Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
Against the Current, No. 150, January/February 2011

Critical Resistance at 10
Against the Current, No. 139, March/April 2009

Cops Against Brutality
Against the Current, No. 126, January/February 2007

American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap
Against the Current, No. 123, July/August 2006

Caging Race & Gender
Against the Current, No. 114, January/February 2005