How policing became the major political issue of our time Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It’s a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to deadly effect. With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and Law Professor Justin Hansford, Director of New York–based Communities United for Police Reform Joo-Hyun Kang, poet Martín Espada, and journalist Anjali Kamat, as well as articles from leading scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and more, Policing the Planet describes ongoing struggles from New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles, London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond. About the Editors: Jordan T. Camp is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His work appears or is forthcoming in venues such as American Quarterly, Kalfou, Race & Class, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, and Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime. Christina Heatherton is an American Studies scholar and historian of anti-racist social movements. She is completing her first book, The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century. Her work appears in places such as American Quarterly and in The Rising Tides of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific, and is forthcoming in volumes such as Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion and Change. She is the editor of Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader. She teaches at Trinity College. |
