| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Lawless policemen -- A New Deal in law enforcement -- Say a few nasty things about the police -- Withdrawal of the police army of occupation in Harlem -- As opposed to police brutality as we are to lawlessness -- When a mayor thought more of law and order and human decency than of votes -- Making the word "Negro" synonymous with mugger -- But nightsticks never cure anything |
| Summary |
"For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings-portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property-to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. As the Depression and wartime conditions spurred youth crime, white New Yorkers' anxieties-about crime, the movement of Black people into white neighborhoods, and headlines featuring Black 'hoodlums' emblazoned all over the white media-drove their support for the expansion of police patrols in the city, especially in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Though Blacks also called for police protection and for La Guardia to provide equitable municipal resources, they primarily received more punishment. This set the stage for the Harlem uprising of 1943. Shannon King uncovers how Black activism for safety was a struggle against police brutality and crime, highlighting how the police withholding protection operated as a form of police violence and an abridgement of their civil rights. By decentering familiar narratives of riots, King places Black activism against harm at the center of the Black freedom struggle, revealing how Black neighborhoods became occupied territories in La Guardia's New York"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.). Police Department -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.). Police Department. fast (OCoLC)fst01837588 |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Racism in law enforcement -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
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Police-community relations -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
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Police -- Complaints against -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
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Public safety -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY / African American & Black
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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Police-community relations.
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Police -- Complaints against.
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Public safety.
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Racism in law enforcement.
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New York (State) -- New York.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9798890863317 |
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