Cop watch : spectators, social media, and police reform /

"This book discusses alterations in the role of the new media in amplification of (primarily) negative views of policing. It also shows changes in the sources that shaped public opinion in the last 30 years. It later highlights changes in policing and the views of the police and their craft in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Toch, Hans
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2012.
Series:	Psychology, crime, and justice series.
Subjects:	Police > United States. Police brutality > United States. Police-community relations > United States. Police. Police brutality. Police-community relations. United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The clamorous chorus
The concern with the injustice or unfairness of police interventions
A concern about police brutality or disproportionate police response
Sensing an unbridgeable divide
Rank-and-file resistance to community relations reforms
The birth of modern policing
A video clip in Seattle
A posthumous chorus and street justice in Seattle
Learning to live with due process
Volatile scenarios in the ghetto.