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When Riot Cops Are Not Enough - The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland (Hardcover)
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When Riot Cops Are Not Enough - The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike
King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of
the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the
spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that
movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique
insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city
administrators lost the ability to effectively control the
movement. Drawn from King's intensive field work, the book focuses
on the physical, legal, political, and ideological dimensions of
repression-in the streets, in courtrooms, in the media, in city
hall, and within the movement itself-When Riot Cops Are Not Enough
highlights the central role of political legitimacy, both for mass
movements seeking to create social change, as well as for
governmental forces seeking to control such movements. Although
Occupy Oakland was different from other Occupy sites in many
respects, King shows how the contradictions it illuminated within
both social movement and police strategies provide deep insights
into the nature of protest policing generally, and a clear map to
understanding the full range of social control techniques used in
North America in the twenty-first century.
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