Book · 2017 · Political Science
The End of Policing
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But I didn't know half the real story until I read Alex Vatitali's The End of Policing this year. Vatitali points out that the core of broken windows theory is the idea that people have latent destructive traits that are unleashed without constant pressure from authority to conform and behave.
What they say about it
- Reads passages from the text“going to quote now from the book”2
The best things said about it
The End of Policing, both of which are important if not easy reading.
And in the end of policing, Alex Vitali writes, quote, "In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class- action lawsuit against the Birmingham, Alabama schools.
In the 60s and 70s local and state elites used rangers to suppress the political and economic rights of Mexican-Americans and played a central role in subverting farmworker movements by shutting down meetings, intimidating supporters, and arresting and brutalizing pickers and union leaders.
Why people recommend it
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale is a critical examination of modern law enforcement that argues against reformist measures and advocates for dismantling traditional policing structures. Robert Evans heavily featured the book across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards, utilizing it to explore the conservative origins and core principles of broken windows theory. Evans cited Vitale's research to provide statistics from the U.S. Department of Education regarding student arrests, as well as specific examples of excessive force within school systems, such as a class-action lawsuit against Birmingham schools filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Furthermore, Evans drew from the text to detail historical instances of state elites using law enforcement to suppress the political and economic rights of Mexican-American farmworkers, and to trace how Cold War counterinsurgency trainers eventually transitioned into domestic police forces. Evans repeatedly recommended the text as essential, albeit challenging, reading for understanding the systemic roots of police militarization.
Every mention
Robert Evans Um, and all the other really important book, The End of Policing. both of which are important if not easy r… 7
“I'm going to quote now from the book, The End of Policing.”
“Uh, and I'm going to quote again from the book The End of Policing.”
“And in the end of policing, Alex Vitali writes, quote, "In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class- action lawsuit against the Birmingham, Alabama schools”
“And Alex Vitali author of the end of policing writes quote in the 60s and 70s local and state elites used rangers to suppress the political and economic rights of Mexican-Americans and played a central role in subverting farmworker movements by shutting down meetings, intimidating supporters, and arresting and brutalizing pickers and union leaders.”
“Many of the trainers moved in large numbers into law enforcement, including the drug enforcement agency, FBI, and numerous local and state police forces, bringing with them a more militarized vision of policing steeped in cold war imperatives of suppressing social movements through counterintelligence, militarized riot suppression techniques, and heavy-handed crime control.”
“But I didn't know half the real story until I read Alex Vatitali's The End of Policing this year. Vatitali points out that the core of broken windows theory is the idea that people have latent destructive traits that are unleashed without constant pressure from authority to conform and behave.”
“Um, and all the other really important book, The End of Policing. both of which are important if not easy reading.”
