The Routledge history of police brutality in America / edited by Thomas Aiello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aiello, Thomas, 1977- editor.

Series:

Routledge histories.

Routledge histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police brutality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself - Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass protests that occurred as a result in 2020. However, the problem of police brutality has been consistent throughout American history. This volume traces its history back to Antebellum slavery, through the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the two world wars and the twentieth century, to the present day. This handbook is designed to create a generally holistic picture of the phenomenon of police brutality in the United States in all of its major lived forms and confronts a wide range of topics including: Race Ethnicity Gender Police reactions to protest movements (particularly as they relate to the counterculture and opposition to the Vietnam War) Legal and legislative outgrowths against police brutality The representations of police brutality in popular culture forms like film and music The role of technology in publicizing such abuses, and the protest movements mounted against it The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America will provide a vital reference work for students and scholars of American history, African-American history, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, and Africana studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Tables

Figures

Introduction

Notes

Section 1: Police Brutality and Race Before World War II

1. Slavery and the Transformation of Southern Policing

2. Policing in Gilded Age Urban Hubs

The Gilded Age

The Establishment of Big-City Police Departments

Policing in the Modern Era

Concluding Thoughts

3. Mob Brutality in Robert Charles's New Orleans

4. Urban Policing and Race Riots in the Era of World War I and the Red Summer

Policing the Black Communities of the Great Migration

Urban Police and Black Soldiers During World War I

The Red Summer of 1919 in Washington and Chicago

After the Red Summer

5. "Killers Who Hide Behind Badges": Race and Police Brutality in the Jim Crow South

Section 2: Police Brutality and Unionism in the United States

6. Policing the Nineteenth-Century American Labor Movement

7. Police Unions and Violence in the twentieth Century United States

Section 3: Police Brutality and Race After World War II

8. The Policing of Black Resistance in World War II

Surveilling Resistance

Alexandria, January 1942

Detroit, June 1943

Harlem, August 1943

At the Summer's End

9. American Policing and the Struggle for Black Civic Rights

Introduction: The War on Black Civic Rights

Civic Rights Distinguished from Civil Rights, Natural Rights, and National Rights

Policing Black Civic Engagement

The Streets

Parks and Recreation

Schools

Conclusion

10. Walking the Tightrope of Self-Defense: Imagery, Rhetoric, and Commemoration of the Black Panther Party

Origins of Self-Defense

The Panther Image and Approach to Self-Defense.

The Case of Bobby Hutton: Understanding Panther Politics through Death

Redefining Victimhood

11. "I Don't Mind Dying": Police Violence, Resistance, and the Urban Uprisings of the 1960s

Police and Enforcing Racial Order in Post-War Cities

Urban Uprising as Anti-Police Protest

Vietnam Here: Police Riot and Retaliatory Violence

Year of the Cop: Victimization and Expanded Authority

Section 4: Police Brutality Against Immigrant and Ethnic Groups

12. Vigilante Policing in Asian American Communities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

13. Latinx Populations and Policing

Conquest

Labor

Youth

War

14. Islamophobia: Supplement for Anti-Black Racism and Policing

Islamophobia in the Service of White Supremacy

Islamophobia And Surveillance

Equating Black Identity Extremists As Muslim

Islamophobia As Supplement For Anti-black Racism: A History

Patterns: Islamophobia and the Anti-black Mukhabarat State

15. From A. Mitchell Palmer to Joe McCarthy: Police Brutality in the Fight Against Communism

A Tradition for Police Brutality: Anarchism and Syndicalism

Preparing for the Palmer Raids

The New Type of Aggressiveness

Violence Toward Any Aliens Should be Scrupulously Avoided

These Splendid Men, These Real Americans

The Police Unleashed

The FBI Raids in Detroit 1940

Whitewashing" the FBI

The End of Police Brutality

Section 5: Police Brutality and Protest in the Era of Vietnam

16. Behind the Billy Club: Chicago Police and the Violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Shoot to Kill

The Yippies are Coming

Convention Eve

Convention Week Begins

The Whole World Is Watching

17. Police Brutality and the Student Movements of the 1960s.

Students and the Antiwar Movement

The Black Student Movement

The Chicano Student Movement

Section 6: The Legal and Legislative History of Police Brutality

18. Police Brutality and The Nonhuman

19. Brutality at the Bar: The Supreme Court and Police Misconduct

20. Chasing the Illusion of Police Reform under Capitalism

The Origins of Policing

The Evolution of Reform

Federal Interest in Reform

Civilian Review Boards, Community Policing, and Police Unions

Federal Intervention in Policing

Reforming the Los Angeles Police Department

The Board of Police Commissioners: Civilian Oversight

Oversight and Racism

Watts and the McCone Commission

Reform Efforts Intensify

Burgeoning Surveillance

Rodney King and the Christopher Commission

The Rampart Scandal and DOJ Oversight

Measuring Change-the Consent Decree and Beyond

Data

Complaints

Complainants by Race/Ethnicity

Serious Disciplinary Allegations

Officer-Involved Shootings (OIS)

Confounding Factors

Demographic Changes

Changes in Arrest Levels

Attitudes Toward the Complaint Process

Vulnerability of Arrestees to Intimidation

Implication of Findings for the Period During and After the Consent Decree

Policy and Practice Changes

High-Tech Surveillance

The Los Angeles Case Study Summed Up

21. President's Task Force on Twenty-First-Century Policing

Description of the Problem or Issue

Literature Review

The 1700s to Mid-1800s in America

The 1900s

The 1960s to the Present

Discussion

Progression Toward Police Militarization

National Defense Authorization Act and 1033 Program

Ferguson, Missouri

Analysis

The Legitimate Need for This Type of Equipment.

Effects of Police Militarization on Police Legitimacy and the Citizens Themselves

Task Force on Twenty-first Century Policing Report

Assessment of the Report

Policy and Practice Recommendations

Section 7: Cultural Representations in Literature, Music, and Film

22. Not Only Compton: Gangster Rap, Policing, and Protest

NWA Made Room

Months Later, It Did

23. Police Violence in Film from Blaxploitation to New Black Realism

I Was Born Black and I Was Born Poor

Can You Dig It?

Sire these Lines are Not Homage to Brutality that the Artist has Invented, but a Hymn from the Mouth of Reality

They Want Us to Kill Ourselves

Can't Afford to be Afraid of Our Own People Anymore

Being a Black Man in America Isn't Easy. The Hunt Is on and You're the Prey.

24. Police Brutality and the Black Arts Movement

25. From Dragnet to Brooklyn 99: How Cop Shows Excuse, Exalt, and Erase Police Brutality

Cop Shows and the Construction and Transmission of Law Enforcement Norms

Valorizing Law Enforcement: A Highly Successful Propaganda Effort

Police Violence and Police Brutality

Normalizing and Erasing Police Brutality: From Dragnet to the Golden Age

Component One: Erasing Race

Component Two: Erasing Brutality

Can Cop Shows Do Better?

Section 8: Alterity and Brutality in the Late-Twentieth Century

26. Policing, The Bar, and Resistance

27. Anti-Brutality Activism and Neighborhood Anti-Crime Activism During the 1970s

Paramilitary Policing in the 1970s

The Expanding Anti-Police Brutality Movement

The Two-Pronged Approach

Anti-Police Brutality Activism at the Ballot Box

Anti- Police Brutality Activism in the Courts

Electoral Victories, Legal Defeats, and the Fracturing of a Police Reform Coalition

Notes.

28. The Multiple Meanings of the ASSAULT ON RODNEY KING: Revisiting Grassroots Discourse After the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

The Rise of the Gang Truce Movement

Women's Grassroots Activism: Performing Motherhood

A New Form of Theatre: Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles 1992

29. Police Brutality in 1990s New York City: The Scars of Zero Tolerance and Community Struggles for Justice

Giuliani Time

The Cases that Shook the City

Police Violence Against Black Women, Women of Color, and LGBTQiA+ People of Color

Baez, Rosario, Vega, Huang

Louima

Diallo

30. Enacting and Enabling Violence: Policing Indigenous Communities

Policing the Colonial Project

Police Killing of Indigenous People

Police Violence against Women and Girls

Policing protests-The Indigenous "Terror Threat

Under-Policing: Enabling Violence

Protesting Policing: BLM and ILM/NLM

Section 9: Police Brutality in the Twenty-First Century

31. Make Visible: Akua Njeri, Breonna Taylor, and Critical Amplification of Police Brutality

Theoretical Framework/Perspectives

Akua Njeri, Breonna Taylor, and the Criminalization of Black Women

Black Women and Trauma in the Media

Methods

Results

Significance

Appendix A: Table of Themes Highlighted in Tweeted Articles

32. #BlackLivesMatter

This is not the Civil Rights Movement. This is the Oppressed People's Movement.

Approaches to Protest, Black Feminist Foundations

To Pimp A Butterfly": Impacts of Decentralized Structure

Conclusion: So Just How Do We "Get Free"?

33. Smartphones as Technologies of Accountability: Exposing and Investigating Police Brutality Using Smartphone Cameras

Section One: Smartphones as Technologies of Accountability.

Section Two: Technologies of Accountability in Practice.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge history of police brutality in America

ISBN:

9781003109969

1003109969

1-003-10996-9

1-000-85264-4

1-000-85268-7