The Police, the People, the Politics
Author :
Publisher : CHRI
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Police
ISBN : 818820529X
Police, Provocation, Politics
Author : Deniz Yonucu
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501762184
Book Description
In Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Shedding light on counterinsurgency's affect-and-emotion-generating divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the organization of political dissent in a way that both counters existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents emergent ones. Yonucu suggests that in the places where racialized and dissident populations live, provocations of counterviolence and conflict by state security agents as well as their containment of both cannot be considered disruptions of social order. Instead, they can only be conceptualized as forms of governance and policing designed to manage actual or potential rebellious populations.
The People's Police
Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765384272
Book Description
Three New Orleans residents meet at a television station, where a cop calls for the people to rise up against corruption in the Big Easy. But what happens when Papa Legba himself answers their plea?
The Food Police
Author : Jayson Lusk
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307987035
Book Description
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food. Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows? A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes! Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police. Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long overdue skepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite. You'll learn: - Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive). - Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans. - Farm policies aren't making us fat. - Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy. - Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter. - Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evil So before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what is good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late!
A Government of Wolves
Author : John W. Whitehead
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1590799836
Book Description
“A NATION OF SHEEP WILL BEGET A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES”–EDWARD R. MURROW America is fast moving into a state of lockdown. Surveillance cameras, drug-sniffing dogs, SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, blood draws at DUI checkpoints, mosquito drones, tasers, privatized prisons, GPS tracking devices, zero tolerance policies, overcriminalization, free speech zones—these are all symptoms of the emerging police state in America. A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES paints a chilling portrait of a nation in the final stages of transformation into outright authoritarianism, whose citizens have become little more than a nation of suspects to be cowed, corralled, and controlled. Pulling from his extensive knowledge of constitutional law, history, and futuristic films, John W. Whitehead helps readers navigate this treacherous terrain and provides them with a blueprint for hopefully finding their way back to freedom.
Police Reform in Mexico
Author : Daniel Sabet
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804782067
Book Description
The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing on Mexico's municipal police, which make up the largest percentage of the country's police forces. Indeed, organized crime presents a major obstacle to institutional change, with criminal groups killing hundreds of local police in recent years. Nonetheless, Daniel Sabet argues that the problems of Mexican policing are really problems of governance. He finds that reform has suffered from a number of policy design and implementation challenges. More importantly, the informal rules of Mexican politics have prevented the continuity of reform efforts across administrations, allowed patronage appointments to persist, and undermined anti-corruption efforts. Although many advances have been made in Mexican policing, weak horizontal and vertical accountability mechanisms have failed to create sufficient incentives for institutional change. Citizens may represent the best hope for counterbalancing the toxic effects of organized crime and poor governance, but the ambivalent relationship between citizens and their police must be overcome to break the vicious cycle of corruption and ineffectiveness.
Police, Politics, Corruption
Author : Frank McKetta
Publisher : McClain Printing Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2000-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870126116
Book Description
A revealing story of how politics has influenced local state & federal law enforcement from the turn of the last century until very recent times. This hard cover, 201 page book covers not only some vignettes of historical political corruption in police work but some of his personal experiences in coping with the problem. Colonel McKetta offers his perspective on some approaches to lessening the corruptive influence of politics; thus positioning his book as a "primer" in the study of law enforcement in all jurisdictions. The book may be ordered from Polis Publishing, 4107 Park St., Camp Hill, PA 17011. Single copy price = $14.00 plus $3.00 shipping & handling, plus 6% Sales Tax, Total=$18.02 Checks or Money Orders accepted.
The Politics of the Police
Author : Robert Reiner
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
An updated survey of the history, sociology and legal-political aspects of Britain's police force. Discussing the effects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1986) and recent developments in police accountability, it looks at the current state of policing, reform initiatives and future trends.
Authoritarian Police in Democracy
Author : Yanilda María González
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108900380
Book Description
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.
Police Matters
Author : Radha Kumar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501760866
Book Description
Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows. Kumar draws on previously unexplored police archives to enter the dusty streets and market squares where local constables walked, following their gaze and observing their actions towards potential subversives. Station records present a textured view of ordinary interactions between police and society, showing that state coercion was not only exceptional and spectacular; it was also subtle and continuous, woven into everyday life. The colonial police categorized Indian subjects based on caste to ensure the security of agriculture and trade, and thus the smooth running of the economy. Among policemen and among the objects of their coercive gaze, caste became a particularly salient form of identity in the politics of public spaces. Police Matters demonstrates that, without doubt, modern caste politics have both been shaped by, and shaped, state policing. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
