Police in a Multicultural Society

by Barlow, David E.; Barlow, Melissa Hickman

• ISBN13: 9781577661290
• ISBN10: 157766129X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART ONE: THE ROLE OF POLICE	1	(48)
Multiple Perspectives on the Role of Police	5	(14)
Multicultural Mosaic of U.S. Society	6	(1)
Criminal Justice Education	7	(4)
What Police Do	11	(6)
The Value of Historical Perspective	17	(1)
Conclusion	17	(1)
Notes	18	(1)
A Historical Analysis of Municipal Policing in the United States	19	(30)
Preindustrial Policing	19	(4)
Industrial Policing	23	(5)
Specifically Tailored Social Control	28	(4)
Modern Policing	32	(8)
Postmodern Policing	40	(6)
Conclusion	46	(3)
PART TWO: POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS	49	(74)
Underpolicing	53	(26)
White Violence	53	(1)
Radical Reconstruction	54	(1)
Jim Crow	55	(5)
World War I	60	(2)
Red Summer	62	(1)
World War II	62	(2)
The Civil Rights Movement	64	(10)
Underpolicing in Milwaukee	74	(3)
Conclusion	77	(1)
Notes	78	(1)
Overpolicing	79	(20)
Fear of Rebellion	79	(2)
Regulation of the Poor	81	(3)
Police Harassment and Brutality	84	(7)
Rodney King	91	(1)
Institutionalized Racism	92	(4)
Conclusion	96	(3)
Police-Community Relations Programs	99	(24)
Critical Events Converge	99	(2)
Innovative Responses to Challenging Situations	101	(2)
Race-Relations Training	103	(2)
Revisited Concepts	105	(5)
A New Urgency	110	(4)
Untenable Relationships	114	(2)
Expectations and Potential Pitfalls	116	(2)
Conclusion	118	(3)
Notes	121	(2)
PART THREE: POLICE AND REBELLION	123	(82)
From Slavery to Jim Crow	127	(20)
Early Struggles against Enslavement	127	(2)
The Colonial Period	129	(1)
The United States of America	130	(9)
Political Struggles	139	(2)
Sabotage	141	(5)
Conclusion	146	(1)
Agitation vs. Accommodation	147	(18)
Conciliation	147	(1)
Opposing Voices	148	(1)
Rebellion in the Streets	149	(2)
Economic Rebellion	151	(5)
New Leaders Emerge	156	(5)
Courtroom Justice	161	(1)
Direct Action and the Mean Streets	161	(2)
Conclusion	163	(2)
Modern Urban Rebellions	165	(20)
Motivations for Riots as Protests	165	(3)
The Watts Riot	168	(5)
Summer of 1967	173	(6)
Rippling Effects of the Civil Rights Movement	179	(5)
Conclusion	184	(1)
Rebellion in Los Angeles, 1992	185	(20)
The Role of the Police	185	(16)
Conclusion	201	(4)
PART FOUR: MARGINALIZED POLICE OFFICERS	205	(84)
Native American Police Officers	209	(14)
Introduction	209	(1)
Native American Tribal Police	209	(1)
The Occupying Army	210	(2)
The Formation of Tribal Police	212	(3)
Self-determination vs. Social Control	215	(4)
American Indian Policy: 1887-1998	219	(2)
Conclusion	221	(2)
African American Police Officers	223	(32)
Community Empowerment	224	(8)
Individual Empowerment	232	(3)
The Role of Minority Police Organizations	235	(6)
Social Control	241	(8)
Who Influences Whom?	249	(4)
Conclusion	253	(2)
Women Police Officers	255	(20)
Police Matrons	255	(2)
Policing Women and Children	257	(2)
The Transformation Begins	259	(3)
The Second Generation of Women Officers	262	(1)
Women on Patrol	263	(3)
Resistance to Women Police	266	(2)
A Hostile Environment	268	(4)
Conclusion	272	(3)
Gay and Lesbian Police Officers	275	(14)
Multiple Challenges	275	(1)
Coming Out	276	(6)
The Recruitment of Gay and Lesbian Police	282	(2)
Impact of Gay and Lesbian Police Officers	284	(1)
Conclusion	285	(4)
Afterword: Police and Society	289	(8)
Power and Interests	290	(2)
Class	292	(5)
References	297	(8)
Index	305