The last neighborhood cops
Subtitle: the rise and fall of community policing in New York public housing
By: Fritz Umbach
Series: Critical issues in crime and society
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780813549064
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our buildings must be patrolled by foot : policing public housing and New York City politics, 1934-1960; title: A paradox in urban law enforcement : residents, officers, and the making of community policing in NYCHA, 1960-1980; title: A confluence of crises : the 1970s and the undermining of community policing; title: The end of community policing, 1980-1995; title: A return to origins and the merger, 1970-1995 : losing, saving, and again losing the housing police.