In the wake of the rightwing siege of the US Capitol, which put ‘Blue Lives Matter’ supporters at odds with police protecting the Capitol, the authors look to the history and contours of the ‘counter-subversive tradition’ in the United States and its locus in local police departments. They examine a similar moment of social unrest – the mid-to-late 1960s – and the pro-police organising undertaken by Support Your Local Police (SYLP), a front group of the ultra-right John Birch Society, which blended anti-communism with opposition to the Black Freedom Movement, with particular anxiety about the spectre of united white and black revolt from below and the encroachment of the federal government on local power from above. The campaign also presented a kind of uniquely rightwing anti-statism, largely through the rejection of impediments to local powers and, specifically, the untrammelled power of the cops. In making sense of the Capitol siege, and the years of rightwing organising that preceded it, the article argues that this important precursor to ‘Blue Lives Matter’ presents a schema for understanding longstanding efforts in police organising in defence of what James Baldwin called ‘arrogant autonomy’ – freedom from civilian oversight or political challenges to cop power, and from all challenges to locally entrenched structures of white power.

在美国国会大厦遭到右翼围困之后，“蓝色生活”的支持者与保护国会大厦的警察相抵触，作者们着眼于美国及其“反颠覆传统”的历史和轮廓。在当地警察部门所在地。他们研究了类似的社会动荡时刻-1960年代中后期-以及极右翼的约翰·伯奇协会（John Birch Society）的前线组织-支持您的当地警察（SYLP）进行的支持警察的组织反对黑人自由运动，尤其担心来自下方的白人和黑人联合起义的幽灵，以及来自上方的联邦政府对地方权力的侵害。该运动还提出了一种独特的右翼反国家主义，主要是通过拒绝阻碍地方权力，特别是警察的不受约束的权力来实现的。为了理解国会大厦的围困以及在此之前的右翼组织多年，这篇文章认为，“ Blue Lives Matter”的这一重要前兆提出了一种模式，可以理解警方为捍卫詹姆斯·鲍德温所说的“自大”而进行的长期努力。自治” –从平民监督或政治挑战到警察权力，从所有挑战到地方根深蒂固的白色权力结构的自由。