Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD

Author/Contributor(s):	Felker-Kantor, Max
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	02/01/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, antipolice abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a ... timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising"--