Policing America [by] Anthony Platt [and] Lynn Cooper.
- Title
- Policing America [by] Anthony Platt [and] Lynn Cooper.
- Published by
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall [1974]
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- Description
- vi, 216 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This is an anthology whose general viewpoint is that police act largely as a state arm for counterinsurgency, encouraged by a growing police-industrial complex. The readings in the book develop the thesis that during the last 100 years police have become an enforcement arm for economic and political interest associated with the capitalistic system both in America and third world countries where the U.S. has investments. The development of electronic criminal information systems and surveillance apparatus under law enforcement assistance administration grants is considered a dangerous trend toward a police-industrial complex. It is suggested that police forces should become increasingly decentralized under community and neighborhood control.
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- Spectrum book
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction -- I. Servants of the state. 1. Political repression and the liberal democratic state / Alan Wolfe -- 2. Domestic law and international order / Eldridge Cleaver -- 3. The cops hit the jackpot / Joseph C. Goulden -- II. Policing the empire. 4. Policing the empire / Michael T. Klare -- 5. World cop: how America built the global police state / Joe Stork -- III. The police industrial complex. 6. Repression--a new "growth industry" / Lee Webb -- 7. Weapons for the homefront / Vince Pinto -- IV. Counterinsurgency. 8. Bringing it back : planning for the city / Michael T. Klare -- 9. Special agent for the FBI / Robert Wall -- V. Policing mass dissent. 10. Detroit 1967 / National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders -- 11. Rights on conflict / Walker Report -- 12. Police view of protest and protestors / Jerome Skolnick -- VI. Crimes by the police. 13. Report on police corruption / Knapp Commission -- 14. Fabricated evidence in the Kent State killings / I.F. Stone -- VII. Controlling the police. 15. Should communities control their police? / David P. Riley -- 16. The defenders : a case study of an informal police organization / Harold A. Nelson.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
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