The Minneapolis Reckoning (eBook)

Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America

Michelle S. Phelps (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24600-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd's murder The eruption of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in 2014 spurred a wave of police reform. One of the places to embrace this reform was Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city long known for its liberal politics. Yet in May 2020, four of its officers murdered George Floyd. Fiery protests followed, making the city a national emblem for the failures of police reform. In response, members of the Minneapolis City Council pledged to ';end' the Minneapolis Police Department. In The Minneapolis Reckoning, Michelle Phelps describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition.Phelps explains that the council's pledge did not come out of a single moment of rage, but decades of organizing efforts. Yet the politics of transforming policing were more complex than they first appeared. Despite public outrage over police brutality, the council's initiatives faced stiff opposition, including by Black community leaders who called for more police protection against crime as well as police reform. In 2021, voters ultimately rejected the ballot measure to end the department. Yet change continued on the ground, as state and federal investigations pushed police reform and city leaders and residents began to develop alternative models of safety.The Minneapolis Reckoning shows how the dualized meaning of the policeas both the promise of state protection and the threat of state violencecreates the complex politics of policing that thwart change. Phelps's account of the city's struggles over what constitutes real accountability, justice, and safety offers a vivid picture of the possibilities and limits of challenging police power today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus. 2 maps. 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Agape • Behavioral Crisis Response • Better Police Contract • Black America • Black Americans • black lives • Black Northsiders • Black Panther Party • Black Power • Black Visions • Brooklyn Center • castile • Charter Commission • Civilian Police Accountability Council • Civil Rights Act • Civil War • Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB) • Councilmember Cunningham • Crime • Cub Foods • Cup Foods • Dakota • DeJuan • Democrats • Facebook • Farmer-Labor • Ferguson • Fort Snelling • George Floyd • George Floyd Square (GFS) • Hennepin County • Hispanic • Hmong • Hmong American • Human Rights • imani • Indigenous • Inequality • Ithaca • Jewish • Kerner Report • Local politics • MAD DADS • Marlon • Michelle Phelps • Minneapolis City Council • Minneapolis Police Department • Minneapolis Public School • Minneapolis Reckoning • Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) • Minnesota Supreme Court • MPD • Murderapolis • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) • National Guard • National Night • northeastern • North Minneapolis • Office of Police Conduct Review (OPCR) • Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) • Pandemic • Plymouth Avenue • Police Conduct Oversight Commission • policepolice reform, police abolition, police violence, politics of policing, Minneapolis Police Department • Policing the Progressive City: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America • Powderhorn Park • Race • Racial Justice • Racism • Relationships Evolving Possibilities (REP) • Republican • Rondo • Ruszczyk • Scandinavian • Senate • Somali • south minneapolis • Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) • Star Tribune • Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar (TCC4J) • urban inequality • Violence • World War
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24600-9 / 0691246009
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24600-0 / 9780691246000