Last Neighborhood Cops - The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing

Informationen zum Autor Umbach, Fritz Klappentext The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. It draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the New York City Housing Authority Police Department's (HAPD) community-based strategy! while questioning its tactical effectiveness. Inhaltsverzeichnis "Our buildings must be patrolled by foot" : policing public housing and New York City politics, 1934-1960 "A paradox in urban law enforcement" : residents, officers, and the making of community policing in NYCHA, 1960-1980 A confluence of crises : the 1970s and the undermining of community policing The end of community policing, 1980-1995 A return to origins and the merger, 1990-1995 : losing, saving, and losing the housing police again

Product details

• Authors: Fritz Umbach
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2011
• EAN: 9780813549064
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4906-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, USA Nordosten, Mid-Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S., POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)