Who do you serve, who do you protect? Police violence and resistance in the United States
Book - 2016
"This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against Black, Brown, Indigenous and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures. It also makes a compelling and provocative argument against calling the police. Contributions cover a broad range of issues including the killing by police of Black men and women, police violence against Latino and Indigenous communities, law enforcement treatment of pregnant people and those with mental illness, and the impact of racist police violence on parenting, as well as specific stories such as a Detroit police conspiracy to slap murder convictions on young Black men using police informants, and the failure of Chica...go's much-touted Independent Police Review Authority, the body supposedly responsible for investigating police misconduct."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Chicago, Illinois :
Haymarket Books
[2016]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "A Truthout collection"--Cover.
- Physical Description
- x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 179-197) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781608466122
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I. Police Failing to Serve and Protect
- 1. Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life
- 2. Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men
- 3. Amid Shootings, Chicago Police Department Upholds Culture of Impunity
- 4. Beyond Homan Square: US History Is Steeped in Torture
- 5. "Never Again a World Without Us": The Many Tentacles of State Violence Against Black-Brown-Indigenous Communities
- 6. Killing Africa
- 7. Say Her Name: What It Means to Center Black Women's Experiences of Police Violence
- 8. Your Pregnancy May Subject You to Even More Law Enforcement Violence
- 9. Black Parenting Matters: Raising Children in a World of Police Terror
- Part II. Communities Building Resistance and Alternatives
- 10. Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future
- 11. We Charge Genocide: The Emergence of a Movement
- 12. Heeding the Call: Black Women Fighting for Black Lives That Matter
- 13. Our History and Our Dreams: Building Black and Native Solidarity
- 14. A New Year's Resolution: Don't Call the Police
- 15. Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police
- 16. Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Notes
- Index