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The last neighborhood cops : the rise and fall of community policing in New York public housing / Fritz Umbach.
LIBRA HV7936.C83 U43 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Umbach, Gregory Holcomb.
- Series:
- Critical issues in crime and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community policing--New York (State)--New York.
- Community policing.
- Public housing--New York (State)--New York.
- Public housing.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Our buildings must be patrolled by foot : policing public housing and New York City politics, 1934-1960
- A paradox in urban law enforcement : residents, officers, and the making of community policing in NYCHA, 1960-1980
- A confluence of crises : the 1970s and the undermining of community policing
- The end of community policing, 1980-1995
- A return to origins and the merger, 1990-1995 : losing, saving, and again losing the housing police.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813549064
- 081354906X
- OCLC:
- 608295497
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