David Correia & Tyler Wall：Police A Field Guide (2018)

2018·2.1 MB·English

by  David Correia, Tyler Wall

Police
A Field Guide
David Correia is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies
at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Properties of
Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico.
Tyler Wall is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Police
A Field Guide
David Correia and Tyler Wall
First published by Verso 2018
© David Correia and Tyler Wall 2018
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The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
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Contents
Introduction:
Copspeak and the False Promise of Police Reform
1. Weaponology:
Technologies and Tactics of Police Violence
Gun
Throw-Down Weapon
Taser
Tear Gas
Handcuffs
K-9
Racial Profiling
Stop and Frisk
Rough Ride
Body Cavity Search
Curfew
Rape
Lynching
Starlight Tour
Flashlight
Nightstick
Chokehold
Lapel Camera
Police Helicopter
Traffic Stop
Checkpoint
Pain Compliance
2. The Oath:
Core Values of Police
Private Property
Order
Security
Pacification
Law
Crime
Violence
War
Force
Jurisdiction
The Badge
Thin Blue Line
Professionalization
3. Models of Policing:
How the Police Are Organized and Defended
Police Gangs
Community Policing
Red Squads
CRASH
COINTELPRO
Officer Friendly
SWAT
Militarization
Police Uniform
Slave Patrol
Rent-a-Cop
Police Oversight
Police Union
Police Reform
4. Using the Force:
How Police Impose Order
Search
Patrol
The Beat
Investigation
Discretion
Predictive Policing
CompStat
Ghetto
Gentrification
Broken Windows
Vagrancy
Interrogation
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Pursuit
Crowds
Police Brutality
Arrest
Plain View
Asset Forfeiture
Testilying
Cop
5. Copspeak:
How the Police See the World
Threat
Emergency
Bad Apple
Deterrence
Disproportionate
Ferguson Effect
Furtive Movements
Justified
No Humans Involved (NHI)
Noncompliance
Officer-Involved Shooting
The Public
Reasonable Suspicion
Unarmed
Use-of-Force Continuum
Criminology
Epilogue:
On a World Beyond Police
Introduction:
Copspeak and the False Promise of Police
Reform
Police violence is not a new phenomenon. Nearly fifty years before
Ferguson, Missouri erupted in anger at the police killing of Mike Brown in
2014, James Baldwin wrote that Black communities in the United States are
“policed like occupied territory.”
Fifty years before police demanded Black obedience to mostly white
cops during anti-police violence protests in Baltimore, Milwaukee, Baton
Rouge and dozens of other cities, Baldwin wrote in 1966 that “the law is
meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my
murderer. To respect the law, in the context in which the American Negro
finds himself, is simply to surrender his self-respect.”
Nearly fifty years before Charlotte, North Carolina police refused to
release the video of Keith Scott’s killing because, as the cops claimed, they
needed to finish their investigation of their own killing, Baldwin wrote, “I
have witnessed and endured the brutality of the police many more times
than once—but, of course, I cannot prove it. I cannot prove it because the
Police Department investigates itself, quite as though it were answerable
only to itself.”
Fifty years before waves of police in riot gear used tear gas and
truncheons to protect white-owned businesses in Minneapolis and New
York from Black Lives Matter activists, Baldwin wrote that police are
“present to keep the Negro in his place and to protect white business
interests, and they have no other function. They are, moreover—even in a
country which makes the very grave error of equating ignorance with
simplicity—quite stunningly ignorant; and, since they know that they are
hated, they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more surefire
formula for cruelty.”