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

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261n.136, 261n.158, 272n.125, Communist Workers Party, 102278n.79, 297n.23, 297n.24 Community Councils, 231 tJtrlCivil War, 39, 46, 77, 93, 108, 246n.71, Community Mobilization Project, 209 :>
Constables of the Commonwealth(Massachusetts), 264n.29Cook County, Illinois, 156, 237n.1Cook, Tom, 94-95Coolidge, Calvin, 267n.14Cooper, Greg, 294n.129Cooper, Jerry H., 262n.190Cooper, Minette, 272n.105Cordner, Gary, 204corporate crime, 91, 259n.87,259n.89corporatism, 140, 144-148, 208.274n.163. 276n.178Cotton. Douglas MacArthur. 97Cotton, Joseph. 32Council of Federated Organizations(COFO), 96-97Council of Federated Organizations etal. v. L. A. Rainey et at., 97Counderakis, Nick ("Nick Bordoise"),114counter-insurgency, 134, 175, 218,218-221, 247, 287n.120, 295n.155,295n.156, 296n.13County-USC Hospital (Los Angeles,California), 4Creeden, Timothy, 57crime statistics, 19th centurv. 09-70:New York Police Departmnt,217-218, 293n.95; police brutality,243n.128; racial profiling, 85-88,256n.46Crime Stoppers, 217criminal profiling. See racial profilingcriminal syndicalism law, 110Cripple Creek, Colorado, 250n.207Crosby, Peter, 255n.27Crouch. Colin, 140. 274n.163crowd control strategies, EscalatedForce, 183-185, 189, 190, 191, 194,196, 287n.110, Maximum Force,180-182, 183, 283n.16, NegotiatedManagement, 189-191, 192, 193,Show of Force. 181, 182, 183Curry, Tim, 272n.l06Curtis, Edwin Upton, 122, 267n.11Customs Department, 172Cutting, Peter, 43Cyprus, 152Daley. Richard , 21, 131, 186, 189Dallas. Texas, 240n.66Dalton Avenue Raid (Los Angeles,California), 88dangerous classes, 67-68, 71, 75,82. 106, 253n.75. See also brokenwindows theory; homelessness andvagrancy; prostitution; Protestantethics; public order; vice laws andProhibition; zero-tolerance, qualityof-life,and order-maintenancepolicingDARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education),204, 209Davis, Harry L., 264n.36Davis, Mike, 296n.13Davis, Raymond, 210Dawson, Eddie, 103. 262n.188,262n.190Dayton, Ohio, 85Deacons for Defense and Justice, 227Defenders, The, 297n.24Defense Department. See UnitedStates Department of DefenseDemocratic National Convention(1968). 158, 167. 184, 186, 187, 194,283n.8, 285n.69, 285n.79Derllocratic ,Jational Convention(1996) . 167-168Democratic National Convention(2000). 194Democratic Party. 49-52. 53, 55, 56,61, 77, 81, 250n.197, 255n.27. See alsoTammany HallDennis, Dave, 96Denver. Colorado, 91, 100, 135, 156-157, 201, 213, 250n.207Department of Commerce. See UnitedStates Department of CommerceDepartment of Defense. See UnitedStates Department of DefenseDepartment of Homeland Security. SeeUnited States Department of HomelandSecurity326
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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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To the degree that industrializatio
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This analysis does not solve the pr
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well. 1I3 A more telling difference
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down. TIlls breakdown was in each c
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4COPS AND KLAN, HAND IN HANDAND THE
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tom .... A door opens outward on th
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very much like their previous statu
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tious driving, the model of the car
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statistics tell us that police arre
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fits the unit's established modus o
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Police investigators later document
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And let's not forget the enormous r
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area: they would pull up in a squad
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The Klan would meet the bus at the
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___ stoppedin terms of what the Fre
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SELMA, ALABAMA: BLOODY SUNDAYViolen
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point. The Panthers personified eve
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were killed, and ten other people w
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5THE NATURAL ENEMY OF THE WO RKING
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The practices surrounding the enfor
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lar officer's ties to the local com
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monopoly on it. Despite the continu
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troops, fifty cops from the Metropo
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and filled it with tear gas. As the
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Nine workers were arrested, charged
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the courts, and the police could be
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all health and well-being. The main
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ment retaliation, and a formal grie
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In 1912, Herman Rosenthal, a profes
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leadership. Increasingly, the polic
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struggle for status in urban Americ
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than before. But the main effect of
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The police also returned to open el
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policy. Henry Wise, the lawyer for
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the power and rewards of the upper
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found the FOP was sympathetic enoug
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whereas even the rookie patrolman s
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This process then results in a tran
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class. The police rebellion came wh
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is an obvious threat to democracy.T
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speeches, but as the evening wore o
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The Haymarket tragedy ... marked th
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154The role of the red squads furth
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Democratic Convention, and later go
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tion. Bail would be set at astronom
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tapped, then admitted that it was b
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Department's Inspectional Service D
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dissenting group, representing rela
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instructions on infiltrating and di
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convention," was scheduled to coinc
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170supposed to do that."1Z7 Another
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terrorism that covers virtually all
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In a typical case, Hady Hassan Omar
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a threat had already developed. The
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For most of that day, the police we
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the McCartby reportas a "crude and
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practical consequence of the Show o
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Such force took different forms. So
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at Rockefeller Center. Jeff Jones,
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On the tactical level, Stark notes:
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sion and brutal tactics is dangerou
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PLAYING BY THE RULESThe Negotiated
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f-;Cl.But the city council's perspe
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formalizes the strategy of violence
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Militarization ... can be defined i
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The nationwide craze for SWAT teams
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a--institution into believing that
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tiUCommon features seemed to connec
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are not difficult to discern. Mispl
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Community policing does not imply t
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.. Narcotics En forcement Area" sig
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one to the other) . lther than inve
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tubetter terms with the community o
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center . . .. I don't think there's
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urglaries"; "Biber, tell me about t
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Of course, many community policing
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in a long series of institutional s
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Rodney Stark writes, "It is vulgar
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the name of "gang suppression."I.1
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228ed civil rights workers through
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the elderly and unemployed.40 Meanw
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these clumsy efforts. All this occu
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It is tempting to try to distinguis
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sion. Underlying the search for jus
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Page 332 and 333: This collection features studies of
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