Policing Los Angeles: race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD

"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 ra...

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Main Author: Felker-Kantor, Max (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
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Keywords:
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Police Department > History > 20th century
Police > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
Police administration > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
Discrimination in law enforcement > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Politics and government > 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 20th century
Los Angeles, Calif. > Polizei > Rassismus > Machtmissbrauch > Geschichte 1965-1992
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1032124946
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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"--
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 youth -- Police crimes and power abuses : police reform and antipolice abuse movements -- The rap sheet : the nimble surveillance state -- Policing an internal border : constructing illegality and exclusive citizenship -- The enemy within : drug gangs and police militarization -- The chickens have come home to roost : police violence and urban rebellion redux
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 335-368
Physical Description:382 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469646831