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Policing Los Angeles : race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD / Max Felker-Kantor.
Loaned to Another Library HV8148.L55 F45 2018
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Felker-Kantor, Max, author.
- Series:
- Justice, power, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department--History--20th century.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department.
- Police--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Police.
- Police administration--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Police administration.
- Discrimination in law enforcement--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in law enforcement.
- History.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Race relations.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 382 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a ... timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the police power
- Policing Raceriotland : a journey into racist policing and urban uprising
- The year of the cop : buying and selling law and order
- High noon in the ghetto : occupied territory and resistance to police brutality
- Kid thugs are spreading terror through the streets : legitimizing supervision of black and Latino/a youth
- Police crimes and power abuses : police reform and anti-police abuse movements
- The rap sheet : the nimble surveillance state
- Policing an internal border : constructing criminal aliens and exclusive citizenship
- The enemy within : drug gangs and police militarization
- The chickens have come home to roost : police violence and urban rebellion redux
- Epilogue: the rampart way: a gang truce, ganster cops, and a consent decree.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469646831
- 1469646838
- OCLC:
- 1029481352
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