Zero tolerance : quality of life and the new police brutality in New York City / edited by Andrea McArdle and Tanya Erzen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McArdle, Andrea, 1953-

Erzen, Tanya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police brutality--New York (State)--New York.

Police brutality.

New York (N.Y.). Police Department.

New York (N.Y.).

Police administration--New York (State)--New York.

Police administration.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these three men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male police officers, as in these cases, but to an entire set of practices that target homeless people, vendors, and sexual minorities.

To this complex problem, Zero Tolerance responds with a range of scholarship and activism. Offering perspectives from law and society, women's studies, urban and cultural studies, labor history, and the visual arts, the essays assembled here complement and provide a counterpoint to the work of police scholars on this subject.

Framed as both a response and a challenge to official claims that intensified law enforcement has produced New York City's declining crime rates, Zero Tolerance instead posits a definition of police brutality more encompassing than the use of excessive physical force. Further, it develops the connections between the most visible and familiar forms of police brutality that have sparked a new era of grassroots community activism, and the day-to-day violence that accompanies that city's campaign to police the "quality of life."

Contents:

Policing the quality of life. Turnstile jumpers and broken windows : policing disorder in New York City / Tanya Erzen

Policing madness : people with mental illness and the NYPD / Heather Barr

Giuliani time : urban policing and Brooklyn South / Sasha Torres

The police. Can zero tolerance last? Voices from inside the precinct / Jennifer R. Wynn

Girlz in blue : women policing violence in the NYPD / Amy S. Green

No justice, no peace / Andrea Mcardle

Activism. Mothers of Invention : the families of police-brutality victims and the movement they've built / Andrew Hsiao

International human rights law and police reform / Paul Hoffman

Police brutality in the New Chinatown. Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence. Organizing Asian communities

An interview with Derrick Bell : reflections on race, crime, and legal activism / Andrea Mcardle

Organizing at the intersections : a roundtable discussion of police brutality through the lens of race, class, and sexual identities / Dayo Folayan Gore, Tamara Jones, and Joo-Hyun Kang

Bearing witness / Bradley Mccallum and Jacqueline Tarry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081475631X

0814756328

OCLC:

45094047