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the courts, and the police could be minimized, and where the strength of theworkers was greatest-on the shop floor.The institutionalization of class conflict has changed unions and strikes, certainly;it has also changed the means of controlling the working class, and therole of the police in particular. Police tactics, strategies, and organization haveall changed as the forms of conflict have changed. All the while, the basic aimsof policing-control of the powerless, defense of the powerful-have remainedessentially the same. The relationship between these changes and continuitieswill be examined in the chapters that follow.119
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY•J O YJ
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(e) 2007 by Kristian WilliamsIntrod
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acknowledgmentsBOOKS DO Nar WRITE T
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ZSugE-
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forewordPOLICE AND POWER IN AMERICA
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1POLICE BRUTALITY IN THEORY AND PRA
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copter. Of these, ten Los Angeles P
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way of understanding the lives led
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vidual officer, perhaps it leads us
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given incident, while excessive use
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The difficulties in measuring exces
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up, a very large number of citizens
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(5) Unintentionality."[0 lffi cers
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Between 1995 and 2000, 360 cops wer
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emember that the available statisti
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even be supported by the lieutenant
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standing of those with power-those
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specialized function, and professio
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TIlere is a further advantage to th
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and frequently drunk.In 1727,Joseph
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the town, preparing elections, impr
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In fact, the first major reform of
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of personal honor. No White man sho
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stopping slaves whenever they were
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Charleston formed a City Guard in 1
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civil rather than military activity
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and Watch. This body was responsibl
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t::Uviolence, the committee argued,
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ity by policemen, dismissing thirte
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Political corruption was not new to
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3THE GENESIS OF A POLICED SOCIETYIN
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first moment, the importance of pol
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deals could be quite profitable for
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suppressing such riots. Not that th
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influence in wards where popular su
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delphia, investigated vegetable mar
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quo (that is, to protect the intere
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Page 122 and 123: 5THE NATURAL ENEMY OF THE WO RKING
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evealed an extensive pattern of pol
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''A NEW DAY IN SECRET GOVERNMENT "I
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interim regulation, detainees who h
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word of a dirty cop and every reaso
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8RIOT POLICE OR POLICE RIOTS?DESPIT
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ubber bullets, and "beanbag guns,"
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Reading, when troops killed eleven
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Troops on riot duty should keep in
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in Mississippi. In February 1968, t
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ANATOMY OF A POLICE RIOTTelevised f
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validated; Mayor Daley continued to
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let crowds dwindle on their own. Po
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to play the game by its usual rules
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act in minor or symbolic ways to ke
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9YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD POLICE
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Police planning also quickly turned
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''waste'' their capabilities. To ju
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in property based on searches condu
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ity groups, and establishing partne
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can run the gamut from watching nei
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them to increase their power, they
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class-always targeting the poor, fo
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used foot patrols, bike patrols, ho
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cuffing them like criminals. Boston
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dog,) 38 will behave properly even
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a great deal of organizational flex
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equipment to go into a neighborhood
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afterwordMAKING POLICE OBSOLETEIT I
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and with a minimum of bullying. Wha
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power, or direct attempts to replac
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stand together and defend themselve
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apartheid era, vigilantism is more
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with violence?O Since 1999, the CR]
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The Blue Book suggests these indica
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notesForeword: Police and Power in
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1984J Bllsic Human Rights Instrumen
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79 This parallel was brought to my
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125 Lundman llses the term "organiz
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contemporary public, government-con
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slave system remained a greater pri
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150 Quoted in Bacon, "Early Develop
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of course, account for the name 'ma
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ston, 1980), 29.71 Lundman , Police
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James Baldwin, "A Report from Occup
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in determining action in any single
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I am a White person. That I should
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136 Mary Frances Berry notes: "The
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Times, June 9, 1985.191 Some resear
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40 Yellen, Labor Struggles, 179. On
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Having accepted the NLRB as a legal
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ended when each striker was fined $
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71 Both quoted in Hays, "Politics o
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Black police associations demonstra
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expanded in the pages that follow.
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7 Henry David, The History of the H
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82 Donner, Protectors 0/ Privilege,
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chive.aclu.org/congress/110101a.htm
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175 Kitson, Low Intensity Operation
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53 Stark, Police Riots, 6.54 Quoted
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109 In the Progressive Era, "The im
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soldiers ride in you should see tho
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68 Cordner, "Elements of Community
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people is ordinarily so high as to
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140 Quoted in Bratton, Turnaround,
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1992),85; and Randall G. Sheldon et
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46 Lee and Seekings, "Vigilantism a
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81 Auld et aI., "Our Practice," 3.4
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to include the voices of those who
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Gooding-Williams. New Yo rk: Routle
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Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the Cit
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POWER MO
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Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopol
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November 1999 WTO meeting in Seattl
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This classic text of radical crimin
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See note under "Chapter 4: Cops and
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indexAbel, Richard, 298n.38, 300n.7
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Blue Flu. See police unions, police
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261n.136, 261n.158, 272n.125, Commu
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Department of Justice. See UnitedSt
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Giuliani, Rudolph, 21, 136, 147, 21
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John Birch Society, 135, 162, 165,
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McNamara, Edmund L., 288n.5 Mississ
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North Carolina State University, 85
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-police political activity. See pol
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after Rodney King's beating (1992),
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298n.38, 298n.45, 299n.51,299n.52,
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United States Drug Enforcement Vill
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