Policing Los Angeles
Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
By Max Felker-Kantor
392 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 20 halftones, 1 map, 4 graphs, 1 table
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-4683-1
Published: November 2018 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-4684-8
Published: September 2018 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5918-3
Published: February 2020
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In Policing Los Angeles, Max Felker-Kantor narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti–police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosions of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources. His book is a gripping and timely account of the transformation in police power, the convergence of interests in support of law and order policies, and African American and Mexican American resistance to police violence after the Watts uprising.
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Max Felker-Kantor is assistant professor of history at Ball State University.
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