Kristian Williams - Our Enemies in Blue - Police and Power in America

notesForeword: Police and Power in AmericaFor example, large, bureaucratic, and paramilitary sheriffs departments-like those in Los AngelesCounty and Cook County-are almost indistinguishable from municipal police. In contrast,police in very small communities often have more general duties and personal ties to the peoplethey encounter; these officers will be more "sheriff-like." David N. Falcone and J" Edward Wells,"The County Sheriff as a Distinctive Policing Modality," in Policing Perspectives, ed. Larry K.Gaines and Gary W, Cordner (Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing, 1999), 48-49 and 52,2 Robert Reiner, The Blue-Coated Worker: A Sociological Study of Police Unionism (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. 1978), 269,Chapter 1: Police Brutality in Theory and Practice"NAACP: Police 'Declared War' on Blacks," Cincinnati Post, April 9, 2001, http://www.cincypost.comI2001/aprl9/reay040901 ,html (accessed April 25, 2002).2 "Protest Spills Into the Streets," Cincinnati Post, April 10, 2001, http://www.cinc.ypost,coml2001/apr/ 1 0/prot041001.html (accessed April 25, 2002).3 Craig Garretson, "On 4th Night, All Quiet: Curfew Brings Calm (0 City Streets," CincinnatiPost, April 13, 2001, http://www.cincyposLCom/200 lIaprl 13/curfew04130 l.html (accessedApril 25, 20(2).4 Andrew Conte and Barry M. Horstman, "City Declares Curfew," Cincinnati Post, April 12,200 1, http://www.cincypost.com/2001 /apr/ 1 2/unrest04 1201.html (accessed April 25, 2002),Jennifer Edwards, "Beanbag Guns Fired at Peaceful Marchers," Cincinnati Post, April 16, 2001,http://www.cincypost,com/2001 /apr/ 1 6/bnbags04 1601 .html (accessed April 25, 2002),6 Quoted in Edwards, "Beanbag Guns." A police investigation revealed that six members of theSWAT team were responsible for the attack, two of them instructors at the Cincinnati Police1 raining Academy. Jennifer Edwards, "No Explanation Given Yet in Beanbag Case," CincinnatiPost, April 17, 2001, http://www.cincypost.com/200 lIapr/ 17 /shoot04 170 l .html (accessed April25, 2002).7 Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department [The Christopher Commission], Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department (July 9, 1991),6-7.8 Christopher Commission, Report, 3.9 Quoted in Christopher Commission, Report, 8,10 Quoted in Christopher Commission, Report, 14. Ellipses in original.11 Stacey C Koon with Robert Deitz, Presumed Guilty: The Tmgedy rthe Rodney King Affair(Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1992), 22.12 Christopher Commission, Report, 8 and 1 5.13 Christopher Commission, Report, 11 and 13.14 "The second development that made the outcome of the trial predictable, in retrospect, was thedefense attorneys' ability to put Mr. King, instead of the fo ur white police officers, on trial. ... Itis our contention that the jury agreed with the defense attorneys' p ortrayals of Mr. King as dan-237