An illustration looking out from behind a rock band onstage and across a large, boisterous, multiracial crowd; behind the crowd, three exaggeratedly large security guards loom over the hall, with their hands on their faces in the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" configuration

Police and security are meant to keep concertgoers safe, but what happens when they do more harm than good? In summer 2020, as America reckoned with a sickness in its system of law enforcement, so too did the music community interrogate the role of police and hired security at concerts. Like the municipalities that explored […]

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