- Paperback: 316 pages
- Publisher: New York University Press; illustrated edition edition (March 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0814756328
- ISBN-13: 978-0814756324
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,128,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male police officers as in these cases, but to an entire set of practices that target homeless people, vendors, and sexual minorities.
The complexity of the problem requires a commensurate response, which Zero Tolerance fulfills with a range of scholarship and activism. Offering perspectives from law and society, women's studies, urban and cultural studies, labor history, and the visual arts, the essays assembled here complement, and provide a counterpoint, to the work of police scholars on this subject.
Framed as both a response and a challenge to official claims that intensified law enforcement has produced New York City's declining crime rates, Zero Tolerance instead posits a definition of police brutality more encompassing than the use of excessive physical force. Further, it develops the connections between the most visible and familiar forms of police brutality that have sparked a new era of grassroots community activism, and the day-to-day violence that accompanies the city's campaign to police the "quality of life."
Contributors include: Heather Barr, Paul G. Chevigny, Derrick Bell, Tanya Erzen, Dayo F. Gore, Amy S. Green, Paul Hoffman, Andrew Hsiao, Tamara Jones, Joo-Hyun Kang, Andrea McArdle, Bradley McCallum, Andrew Ross, Eric Tang, Jacqueline Tarry, Sasha Torres, and Jennifer R. Wynn.
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This review is from: Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (Paperback)
This collection of essays is uneven in quality. Heather Barr's "Policing Madness: People with Mental Illness and the NYPD" is outstanding. It is well written, even-handed, and reflects the frustration of my own law enforcement experience. Most of the other essays are not so clearly written or reasoned. Taken as a whole, the book does not give a precise sense of where we should go when competing personal and social interests are taken into account. Since the concept of "Zero Tolerance" is such an idiotic and painful assault on what it is to be human, I was disappointed.
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Timely thoughtful analysis,
By Cathy Harris (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (Paperback)
Zero Tolerance offers fresh and necessary perspective on the conflicts between the police, the community and administration policies in New York City. The book highlights the irrationalities inherent in Guiliani's Quality of Life campaign. The contributors' variety of disciplines made the book especially compelling. This is a great resource for civil rights legal practitioners as well as for the academic community.
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Timely thoughtful analysis,
By Cathy Harris - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (Paperback)
Zero Tolerance offers fresh and necessary perspective on the conflicts between the police, the community and administration policies in New York City. The book highlights the irrationalities inherent in Guiliani's Quality of Life campaign. The contributors' variety of disciplines made the book especially compelling. This is a great resource for civil rights legal practitioners as well as for the academic community.
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Uneven,
By Peter Free - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City (Paperback)
This collection of essays is uneven in quality. Heather Barr's "Policing Madness: People with Mental Illness and the NYPD" is outstanding. It is well written, even-handed, and reflects the frustration of my own law enforcement experience. Most of the other essays are not so clearly written or reasoned. Taken as a whole, the book does not give a precise sense of where we should go when competing personal and social interests are taken into account. Since the concept of "Zero Tolerance" is such an idiotic and painful assault on what it is to be human, I was disappointed.
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