Title Policing the racial divide : urban growth politics and the remaking of segregation / Daanika Gordon

Published New York : New York University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages) Contents Introduction -- Urban governance, policing, and the making of a segregated city -- The promises and perils of the River City redistricting -- Policing the East District -- Policing the West District -- Policing segregation boundaries -- Policing and the social structure of segregation -- Conclusion Summary A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two districts in "River City," a profoundly segregated rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly whiteneighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in community problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black communities reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race, despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing unfolds in cities across America.Drawing on in-depth interviews and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguring segregated landscapes. She illuminates an underexplored source of racially disparate policing: the role of law enforcement in urban growth politics. Many postindustrial cities are increasing the divisions of segregation, Gordon argues, by investing in downtowns, gentrified neighborhoods, and entertainment corridors, while framing marginalized central city neighborhoods as sources of criminal and civic threat that must be contained and controlled. Gordon paints a sobering picture of modern-day segregation, and how the police enforce its racial borders, showing us two separate, unequal sides of the same city: one where rich, white neighborhoods are protected, and another where poor, Black neighborhoods are punished Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed February 9, 2023) Subject Police -- United States -- Case studies Police-community relations -- United States -- Case studies Segregation -- United States -- Case studies Urbanization -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies Urban policy -- United States -- Case studies Equality -- United States -- Case studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. Equality Police Police-community relations Race relations Segregation Urban policy Urbanization -- Social aspects Social services & welfare, criminology. True Crime. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Case studies Subject United States Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781479814060 1479814067 9781479814077 1479814075

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