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Thwarting Neoliberal Security: Ineptitude, the Retrograde, and the Uninspiring in The Wire

Developments in US policy and governance over the past few decades have deepened economic insecurity in the name of freedom. These developments, commonly referred to by the umbrella term neoliberalism, involve state deregulation of corporate profit-making, the privatization of public goods, and diminished state support for social welfare. Although it is commonly presupposed that neoliberal developments diminish state power, they also intensify it upon the most insecure, marginalized segments of society: the impoverished inner cities and the people, often of color, who live there. People without high capital or the capacity to generate it have become subject to extensive state surveillance and penal sanctions, as both are deployed to control the effects of escalating social and economic insecurity. Within neoliberalism, state responses to economic insecurity are addressed not by mitigating insecurity through social security but by state securitization—securing flows of wealth from the poor. Market freedom combines with government policies that increase control and restraint over the impoverished in order to ensure the freedom of capital and corporate persons. These developments tender a social vision in which all people can be made to turn a profit while money, rather than people, must be set free. They