Policing Los Angeles : race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD

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Label

Policing Los Angeles : race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD

Title remainder

race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD

Statement of responsibility

Max Felker-Kantor

Creator

• Felker-Kantor, Max

Author

• Felker-Kantor, Max

Subject

• Discrimination in law enforcement
• Discrimination in law enforcement -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• History
• Informational works
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Los Angeles (Calif.), Police Department
• Los Angeles (Calif.), Police Department -- History -- 20th century
• Police
• Police -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Police administration
• Police administration -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Politics and government
• Race relations
• 1900-1999
• California -- Los Angeles

Genre

• Informational works
• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a ... timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising"--
• When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited demands for reform made by activists and residents of color, instead intensifying its power. In Policing Los Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosions of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as book-ends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a gripping and timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Latino/a resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising. -- From dust jacket

Member of

• Justice, power, and politics

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Provided by publisher

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NcU/DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Justice, power, and politics