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Stacy Halloran has lived most of her life in 1950s-era housing
development Arboria Park. But her beloved neighborhood may not
survive much longer. Despite her parents’ entreaties to “stay
in the yard where it’s safe,” the Park is where young Stacy
roams in quest of “real life.” Through her wanderings, she
learns about the area’s agricultural history; meets people from
backgrounds different than her own; watches her siblings develop
interracial and same-sex relationships; helps launch the local
punk-rock scene; and finally, settles as a wife and mother. As the
neighborhood declines (along with her relationship with her
mother), Stacy considers moving on to rescue herself and her
daughter. But then a massive highway project threatens the
ever-resilient Park—and it’s Stacy’s task to rally family,
friends, and neighbors to save it.
This book armed activists on the streets-as well as the many who
have become concerned about police abuse-with a critical analysis
and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The
book contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we
speak the language of police legitimation through the art of
euphemism. So state sexual assault become "body-cavity search," and
ruthless beatings become "non-compliance deterrence." A Field Guide
to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted
language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we
talk about law enforcement. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and
frisk," and "Rough ride," the authors expose the way "copspeak"
suppresses the true meaning and history of policing. Like any other
field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. The
book argues that a redefined language of policing might help chart
a future free society. Now in an expanded and updated edition,
including explanations of newsmaking new terms, like "dead names",
"kettling", and "qualified immunity", as well as a new foreword by
leading criminal justice advocate Craig Gilmore
This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand
for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order,
by arguing that the police project, in order to fabricate and
defend capitalist order,must patrol an imaginary line between
society and nature, it must transform nature into inert matter made
available for accumulation. Police don 't just patrol the ghetto or
the Indian reservation, the thin blue line doesn 't just refer to a
social order, rather police announce a general claim to
domination--of labor and of nature. Police and police violence are
modes of environment-making. This edited volume argues that any
effort to understand racialized police violence is incomplete
without a focus on the role of police in constituting and
reinforcing patterns of environmental racism.
This book will arm activists on the streets-as well as anyone with
an open mind on one of the key issues of our time-with a critical
analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of
policing. The book contends that when we talk about police and
police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through
the art of euphemism. So state sexual assault become "body-cavity
search," and ruthless beatings become "non-compliance deterrence."
A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and
taken-forgranted language of policing, a language we're all forced
to speak when we talk about law enforcement. In entries like
"Police dog," "Stop and frisk," and "Rough ride," the authors
expose the way "copspeak" suppresses the true meaning and history
of policing. Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is
hidden in plain view. The book argues that a redefined language of
policing might help chart a future free society.
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