According to Vitale, why is the War on Drugs the most damaging and ineffective form of policing facing us and how does Cooper discuss the “War on Drugs Policing and police brutality”?
Critical Issues in Policing
Book:
Vitale, A. S. (2017). The end of policing. Verso: London and New York.
Directions: Please fully answer each of the following questions.
I Neoliberal Policing
- According to Vitale, why is the War on Drugs the most damaging and ineffective form of policing facing us and how does Cooper discuss the “War on Drugs Policing and police brutality”?
(a) Detail how Vitale believes that no amount of police intervention will ever stamp out our drug use;
(b) Detail how Vitale discusses the history of America’s discriminatory drug war, corruption, racial impacts, and its negative effects on the right to privacy;
(c) Assess the reforms and alternatives Vitale proposes. In your opinion, what is the most favorable, what is the least favorable?
(d) According to Cooper, how has the War on Drugs expanded police powers?
(e) Discuss Cooper’s positions on the different types of violence proposed by WHO: psychological, physical, sexual, and neglectful violence;
(f) Please also watch “Why We Need to End the War on Drugs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWfLwKH_Eko&list=PLTfUWpb_HuyT3 kQPqnev589FR6WeFt-Uf
What have you learned from this YouTube? How does it relate to issues of policing? What major points made by Nadelmann do you agree with? What points do you disagree with? Please explain in detail?
II Common and Control and Beyond Bratton
- Please discuss “The Emergence of Command and Control Policing in Neoliberal New York” by Vitale and Jordan Jefferson. In your discussion please detail:
(a) How is NYPD’s core strategies represent the intense regulation of low-income communities of color as prison-like spaces?
(b) How do Camp and Heatherton define command and control strategies?
(c) How do the authors assess broken windows, and stop, question, frisk?
(d) How does the hands-on governance of poor persons of color and the public space they inhabit extend into the educational system?
(e) How is surveillance another crucial feature in the command and control repertoire?
- Please discuss “Beyond Bratton” by Gilmore and Gilmore. In your discussion please detail why the authors believe that the modern police system is designed to keep the marginalized in their place and to warn of a fate worse than poverty? In that regard, how do Gilmore and Gilmore discuss the following sub-topics:
(a) police violence/police legitimacy;
(b) community policing reborn;
(c) the velvet glove;
(d) counterinsurgency;
(e) devolution and police power;
(f) structure and flow; and,
(g) What conclusions do the authors reach?
III Border Policing
- Please discuss Vitale’s “Border Policing.” In your discussion please answer the following:
(a) Please discuss the author’s review of the history of the southern United States border and the Border Patrol.
(b) Has border policing always been racialized? Please explain.
(c) When did the current intensification of border policing begin and when was it intensified? Explain. What have been the role of ICE, the failed War on Drugs, and the increase of deportations on this topic?
(d) Assess the reforms and alternatives Vitale proposes. In your opinion, what is the most favorable, what is the least favorable? Please explain.
- Please discuss “From the Border to the Core: A Thickening Military Police Assemblage” by Correa and Thomas. How do the authors draw upon the cases of Esequiel Hernandez and Michael Brown to frame the two following question?
(a) How and do what degree has the US-Mexico border served as a staging ground for US (para)military aid surveillance strategies at home and abroad?
(b) How do discourses on America’s urban core compare and contrast with those on the southern border?
III Policing and Politics
- Please discuss “Political Policing” by Vitale. In your discussion, please, among other things, answer the following questions.
(a) Does the author think that police have always been political? Explain.
(b) How does the author trace the history of this concept in other nations?
(c) Does the US have a long history of similar abuse? Explain and refer to the Red Scare, the Palmer raids, the FBI, COINTELPRO, “Red Squads,” and the Civil Rights movement.
(d) How does the author discuss Joint Terrorism Task Forces and Fusion Centers?
(e) How does the author discuss “Entrapment?” Provide examples, including the case of Rezwan Ferdaus and the NYPD “Demographics Unit.”
(f) How does the author discuss “Crowd Control?”
(g) Assess the reforms and alternatives Vitale proposes. In your opinion, what is the most favorable, what is the least favorable?
- Please review the notes of Dr. Calathes, and conduct your own research to assess the historical development of political policing in the United States, including:
(a) the professionalization of the police and the role of progressives;
(b) the successes and limitations of historical and current reforms;
(c) the effect of Ferguson and the shooting of Michael Brown;
(d) attempts to diversity police forces; and
(e) application of wide variety of reform strategies in current period has its origins in crises of 1960’s.
IV The Crisis of Broken Windows and Common Sense
- How do the Mitchell, Attoh, and Staheli view broken windows in their article, “Broken Windows is not the Panacea”: Common Sense, Good Sense, and Police Accountability in American Cities,” Please detail their main points in their sections:
(a) Broken Windows: View from the Neighborhoods
(b) Broken Windows and Community Policing
(c) Broken Windows Is Not the Panacea
(c) Broken Windows and Good Sense
- How does Herzing view broken windows in her article, “The Magical Life of Broken Windows. Please detail her main points, including:
(a) is broken windows a theory or is it “magical?”
(b) her opinion of William Bratton;
(c) quality-of-life and zero tolerance policing;
(d) the Compstat crime stat tracking program; and
(e) the history and current anti-policing organizing activity
Extra Credit:
- Why does Prashad feel that it “Ends Badly?”
- What have you learned from Safety While Protesting: Research on Police Brutality and Abolition
https://libguides.seattlecentral.edu/c.php?g=1046607&p=7594343
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