Policing the Racial Divide : : Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation / / Daanika Gordon.

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 whiteneighborhoods provided respon...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Urban Governance, Policing, and the Making of a Segregated City
  • 2 The Promises and Perils of the River City Redistricting
  • 3 Policing the East District
  • 4 Policing the West District
  • 5 Policing Segregation Boundaries
  • 6 Policing and the Social Structure of Segregation
  • Conclusion
  • Methods Appendix: Conducting a Critical Police Ethnography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author