The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing - Rilegato

Umbach, Fritz

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ISBN 10: 081354906X ISBN 13: 9780813549064

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-quarters of American police departments claim to embrace the strategy. But decades before the phrase was coined, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department (HAPD) had pioneered community-based crime-fighting strategies.

The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD's community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. The result is a unique perspective on contemporary debates of community policing and historical developments chronicling the influence of poor and working-class populations on public policy making.

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FRITZ UMBACH is an assistant professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.

FRITZ UMBACH is an assistant professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 081354906X
• ISBN 13: 9780813549064
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 233
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile