The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles

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A critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los AngelesThe Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a raci...

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Authors: Gascón, Luis Daniel (Author) ; Roussell, Aaron (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY New York University Press [2019]
In:Year: 2019
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Keywords:
Police-community relations > California > Los Angeles
Police > California > Los Angeles
Police > Complaints against > California > Los Angeles
Hispanic Americans > California > Los Angeles
African Americans > California > Los Angeles
Social Science / Criminology
Black studies
Latino studies
advocacy
civilian review boards
collaborative ethnography
collaborative governance
community governance
community policing
consumer capitalism
corporate sponsorship
crime prevention
genealogy
governmentality
grassroots activism
language differences
legality
liberalism
moral order
neighborhood disputes
pathologization
police accountability
police authority
police commission
police legitimacy
police workforce
policeability
postindustrial city
post-civil rights era
public complaints
public perceptions
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781479871209
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Summary:A critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los AngelesThe Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a racial panacea—is not the solution it seems to be. Tracing this policy back to its origins, they focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, which first introduced community policing after the high-profile Rodney King riots. Drawing on over sixty interviews with officers, residents, and stakeholders in South LA’s “Lakeside” precinct, they show how police tactics amplified—rather than resolved—racial tensions, complicating partnership efforts, crime response and prevention, and accountability. Gascón and Roussell shine a new light on the residents of this neighborhood to address the enduring—and frequently explosive—conflicts between police and communities. At a time when these issues have taken center stage, this volume offers a critical understanding of how community policing really works
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Roots, rebellion, and reform -- 2. The making of lakeside -- 3. Organizing the division -- 4. Complaint encounters -- 5. No place for the mom- and- pops -- 6. The politics of partnership -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological appendix: On police and partner ethnography -- Participant appendix: who’s who in the text -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the authors
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource 15 black and white illustrations
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781479870318
DOI:10.18574/9781479870318
Access:Restricted Access