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Police brutality
- Title
- Police brutality / Louise I. Gerdes, book editor.
- Publication
- San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
- Description
- 206 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Current controversies
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-199) and index.
- Contents
- Police brutality is a serious problem / The Progressive. -- Police officers use deadly force too frequently / Amnesty International. -- The media underestimate police brutality / Michael Novick. -- Some prisons condone guard brutality / Douglas Dennis. -- The extent of police brutality is exaggerated / Arch Puddington. -- The use of deadly force is sometimes necessary / Randy Tedford. -- The police rarely use excessive force / International Association of Chiefs of Police. -- The force used against political demonstrators is appropriate / James J. Fotis. -- Racism promotes police brutality / Salim Muwakkil. -- The police are not racist / Michael Levin. -- Aggressive policing encourages police brutality / Joseph D. McNamara. -- Aggressive policing does not encourage police brutality / George L. Kelling. -- Antiterrorism measures encourage law enforcement agencies to harass immigrants / Jane Bai and Eric Tang. -- Antiterrorism measures target only terrorists / John Ashcroft. -- Militarism in police departments encourages police brutality / Diane Cecilia Weber. -- Aggressively policing the poor leads to abusive police practices / Daniel HoSang. -- The war on drugs promotes the unnecessary use of deadly force / Paul Armentano. -- Public protest against police brutality promotes accountability / Edward Lewis. -- Police-brutality protests discourage effective policing / Tamar Jacoby. -- The police must discontinue the practice of racial profiling / David Cole. -- Unproven accusations that the police use racial profiling discourage effective policing / William Norman Grigg. -- Early warning systems reduce police misconduct / Samuel Walker, Geoffrey P. Alpert, and Dennis J. Kenney. -- Citizens should have access to accurate data on the 0 use of deadly force / James J. Fyfe. -- Video cameras curtail police brutality / Richard D. Emery. -- Federal lawsuits against police departments effectively punish police brutality / Alexis Agathocleous. -- Federal intervention in police department policies discourages effective policing / Darlene Hutchinson. -- Civilian oversight promotes impartial investigation of police misconduct / Emma Phillipps and Jennifer Trone. -- Civilians cannot objectively oversee police practices / Bill Rhetts. -- Police chiefs should be given the authority to discipline officers / Anonymous. --Police culture makes it difficult to prosecute police brutality / Jerome H. Skolnick. -- The courts do not adequately punish police departments that use racial profiling / David Cole. -- Civil lawsuits rarely lead to punishment of police brutality / Human Rights Watch. -- Juries are reluctant to convict police officers / Scott Turow.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-1588
- ISBN
- 0737716274 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9780737716276 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 0737716282 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780737716283 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003060738
- OCLC
- 52757208
- Title
- Police brutality / Louise I. Gerdes, book editor.
- Imprint
- San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 2004.
- Series
- Current controversies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-199) and index.
- Added Author
- Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-1588