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2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner A behind-the-scenes
account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For
thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police officers in two
districts in “River City,” a profoundly segregated rust belt
metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly white
neighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in community
problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black communities
reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and
under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing
throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to
alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial
divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race,
despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing
unfolds in cities across America. Drawing on in-depth interviews
and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a
behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguring
segregated landscapes. She illuminates an underexplored source of
racially disparate policing: the role of law enforcement in urban
growth politics. Many postindustrial cities are increasing the
divisions of segregation, Gordon argues, by investing in downtowns,
gentrified neighborhoods, and entertainment corridors, while
framing marginalized central city neighborhoods as sources of
criminal and civic threat that must be contained and controlled.
Gordon paints a sobering picture of modern-day segregation, and how
the police enforce its racial borders, showing us two separate,
unequal sides of the same city: one where rich, white neighborhoods
are protected, and another where poor, Black neighborhoods are
punished.
A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a
segregated city For thirteen months, Daanika Gordon shadowed police
officers in two districts in "River City," a profoundly segregated
rust belt metropolis. She found that officers in predominantly
white neighborhoods provided responsive service and engaged in
community problem-solving, while officers in predominantly Black
communities reproduced long-standing patterns of over-policing and
under-protection. Such differences have marked US policing
throughout its history, but policies that were supposed to
alleviate racial tensions in River City actually widened the racial
divides. Policing the Racial Divide tells story of how race,
despite the best intentions, often dominates the way policing
unfolds in cities across America. Drawing on in-depth interviews
and hundreds of hours of ethnographic observation, Gordon offers a
behind-the-scenes account of how the police are reconfiguring
segregated landscapes. She illuminates an underexplored source of
racially disparate policing: the role of law enforcement in urban
growth politics. Many postindustrial cities are increasing the
divisions of segregation, Gordon argues, by investing in downtowns,
gentrified neighborhoods, and entertainment corridors, while
framing marginalized central city neighborhoods as sources of
criminal and civic threat that must be contained and controlled.
Gordon paints a sobering picture of modern-day segregation, and how
the police enforce its racial borders, showing us two separate,
unequal sides of the same city: one where rich, white neighborhoods
are protected, and another where poor, Black neighborhoods are
punished.
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