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Author Felker-Kantor, Max, author.

Title Policing Los Angeles : race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD / Max Felker-Kantor
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages)
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Contents Policing Raceriotland : a journey into racist policing and urban uprising -- The year of the cop : buying and selling law and order -- High noon in the ghetto : occupied territory and resistance to police brutality -- Kid thugs are spreading terror through the streets : legitimizing supervision of black and Latino youth -- Police crimes and power abuses : police reform and antipolice abuse movements -- The rap sheet : the nimble surveillance state -- Policing an internal border : constructing illegality and exclusive citizenship -- The enemy within : drug gangs and police militarization -- The chickens have come home to roost : police violence and urban rebellion redux
Summary "Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a ... timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 27, 2018)
Subject Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department fast
Subject Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Police administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in law enforcement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Discrimination in law enforcement
Police
Police administration
Politics and government
Race relations
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject California -- Los Angeles
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018010264
ISBN 9781469646848
1469646846
9781469646855
1469646854