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" Our enemies in blue : "
Kristian Williams ; introduction by Andrea J. Ritchie
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BL
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593171
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b422390
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| Main Entry
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Williams, Kristian
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| Title & Author
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Our enemies in blue : : police and power in America /\ Kristian Williams ; introduction by Andrea J. Ritchie
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| Edition Statement
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Third edition
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572 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9781849352154
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: 1849352151
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| Notes
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Previous edition published in 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [527]-546) and index
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| Contents
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Police and power in America -- Police brutality in theory and practice -- The origins of American policing -- The genesis of a policed society -- Cops and Klan, hand in hand -- The natural enemy of the working class -- Police autonomy and blue power -- Secret police, red squads, and the strategy of permanent repression -- Riot police or police riots? -- Your friendly neighborhood police state -- Making police obsolete
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Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police misconduct in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, peace keepers have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful.-- Page 4 of Cover
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Police-- United States
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Police brutality-- United States
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Police misconduct-- United States
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Police-- United States-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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363.2/32
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HV8138.W615 2015
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