Zero Tolerance

Published by New York University Press 2001

Zero Tolerance

Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City

Edited by: Andrea Mcardle and Tanya Erzen

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759721.001.0001

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About this book

Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male police officers as in these cases, but to an entire set of practices that target homeless people, vendors, and sexual minorities.
The complexity of the problem requires a commensurate response, which Zero Tolerance fulfills with a range of scholarship and activism. Offering perspectives from law and society, women's studies, urban and cultural studies, labor history, and the visual arts, the essays assembled here complement, and provide a counterpoint, to the work of police scholars on this subject.
Framed as both a response and a challenge to official claims that intensified law enforcement has produced New York City's declining crime rates, Zero Tolerance instead posits a definition of police brutality more encompassing than the use of excessive physical force. Further, it develops the connections between the most visible and familiar forms of police brutality that have sparked a new era of grassroots community activism, and the day-to-day violence that accompanies the city's campaign to police the "quality of life."
Contributors include: Heather Barr, Paul G. Chevigny, Derrick Bell, Tanya Erzen, Dayo F. Gore, Amy S. Green, Paul Hoffman, Andrew Hsiao, Tamara Jones, Joo-Hyun Kang, Andrea McArdle, Bradley McCallum, Andrew Ross, Eric Tang, Jacqueline Tarry, Sasha Torres, and Jennifer R. Wynn.

Author information

McardleAndrea:

Andrea McArdle is a teacher in, and Faculty coordinator for, the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law.ErzenTanya:

Tanya Erzen has written for The Nation and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. They are both doctoral candidates in the American Studies Program at New York University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Paul Chevigny Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributors Andrea McArdle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Policing the Quality of Life
1 Turnstile Jumpers and Broken Windows: Policing Disorder in New York City Tanya Erzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 Policing Madness: People with Mental Illness and the NYPD Heather Barr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3 Giuliani Time: Urban Policing and Brooklyn South Sasha Torres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
II The Police
4 Can Zero Tolerance Last? Voices from inside the Precinct Jennifer Wynn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5 girlz in blue: Women Policing Violence in the NYPD Amy Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
6 No Justice, No Peace Andrea McArdle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
III Activism
7 Mothers of Invention: The Families of Police-Brutality Victims and the Movement They’ve Built Andrew Hsiao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
8 International Human Rights Law and Police Reform Paul Hoffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
9 Police Brutality in the New Chinatown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
10 An Interview with Derrick Bell: Reflections on Race, Crime, and Legal Activism Andrea McArdle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
11 Organizing at the Intersections: A Roundtable Discussion of Police Brutality through the Lens of Race, Class, and Sexual Identities Dayo Gore, Tamara Jones and Joo Kang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Bearing Witness Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Areas A, B, and C: An Afterword Andrew Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: March 1, 2001
ISBN: 9780814759721