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Zero Tolerance : Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City / edited by Andrea McArdle and Tanya Erzen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- A fast track book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New York (N.Y.). Police Department.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Police administration--New York (State)--New York.
- Police administration.
- Police brutality--New York (State)--New York.
- Police brutality.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, 2001
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four 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. The complexity of the problem requires a commensurate response, which Zero Tolerance fulfills with a range of scholarship and activism. Offering perspectives from law a
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-5972-6
- OCLC:
- 779828206
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