Blue Power: How Police Organized To Protect And Serve Themselves

Blue Power: How Police Organized To Protect And Serve Themselves

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A History Of Police Unions That Reveals How American Law Enforcement Built A Political Movement That Made Cops Untouchable.A Tour De Force ... Read It Now. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Author Of Abolition Geographyin America Today, Police Enjoy Unmatched Power. On The Streets, Officers Employ Violence At Their Own Discretion. Behind Closed Doors, They Are Even More Powerful. In City Halls, Police StrongArm Local Leaders And Nullify Attempts At Public Oversight. And In State Legislatures And Washington, Dc, Police Lobbyists And Union Leaders Zealously Uphold A Bipartisan Consensus Against Even Mild Reform. Yet As Recently As Fifty Years Ago, Police Still Served At The Pleasure Of Democratically Elected Politicians, Not The Other Way Around. In Blue Power, Stuart Schrader Narrates The Rise Of A BottomUp Movement Of RankAndFile Officers Who Lifted Policing Above The Law.Organizers Launched Their Campaign In The 1960S, Courting A Public Backlash To Urban Uprisings And Civil Rights. City By City, County By County, They Formed Unions And Other Organizations And Won Control Over Working Conditions, Impunity From Oversight, And Insulation From Lean Budgets. By The 2000S, This Movement Had Triumphed Nationally, Shoring Up The Power Of The Police To Overrule The Public Interest In The Name Of Law And Order.Through Deep Archival Detective Work, Blue Power Reveals How Police Forced American Democracy To Back The Blue.

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