Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los
Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast,
heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare,
ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space
and the exercise of power. Author Steve Herbert spent eight months
observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling
story in itself, his fieldwork with the officers in the Wilshire
Division affords readers a close view of the complex factors at
play in how the police define and control territory, how they make
and mark space. A remarkable ethnography of a powerful police
department, underscored throughout with telling on-the-scene
vignettes, this book is also an unusually intensive analysis of the
exercise of territorial power-and of territoriality as a key
component of police power. Unique in its application of fieldwork
and theory to this complex subject, it should prove valuable to
readers in urban and political geography, urban and political
sociology, and criminology, as well as those who wonder about the
workings of the LAPD.
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