Our enemies in blue
Subtitle: police and power in America
By: by Kristian Williams.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Police -- United States; Police brutality -- United States; Police misconduct -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Police brutality in theory and practice; title: The origins of American reading; title: Modern policing and the expansion of state power; title: Cops and Klan, hand in hand; title: Police control and class conflict; title: Class dominance and police autonomy; title: Secret police, red squads, and the strategy of permanent repression; title: Riot police or police riots?; title: Your friendly neighborhood police state.