No Place on the Corner

The Costs of Aggressive Policing

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ID19974559
AuthorsJan Haldipur (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages224
Publication date2019-05-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNo Place on the Corner (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9781479869084.001.0001
OpenAlexW4242022880
Open LibraryOL27346178M
ISBN9781479869084
LanguageEN
Citations received11

In the early 2000s, New York City began to experience a surge in “stop, question, and frisks”—a police tactic that became a distinctive feature of the New York Police Department. Young black and Latino men disproportionately became the focus of this approach, which targets residents of selected neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. Nowhere is this issue more critical than in the Bronx, which became “ground zero” for many of these stops. This book draws from approximately three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, beginning in 2011 (the year stops would reach their highest point) and conducted in and around the 40th, 42nd, and 44th Precincts of the southwest Bronx. Relying primarily on participant observation, informal interviews, focus groups, and life-history interviews, this book examines how community members make sense of aggressive policing tactics and explores the strategies and sources of resilience these individuals use to cope. This book takes a close look at residents’ (re)conception of what it means to be a citizen and just how their right to public space has been transformed by aggressive policing tactics. Findings suggest a substantial erosion of faith in local and state institutions. Moreover, these aggressive policing tactics discourage the formation of social ties in the neighborhood—the very networks needed to get ahead

Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Citizenship · Community development · Crime prevention · Immigrants · Police-community relations · united states · Youth

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