Los Angeles and New York in the Americas -- Los Angeles -- New York City -- New York and the Unites States -- The Unites States, Latin America, and the Caribbean -- Sao Paulo -- Buenos Aires -- Jamaica -- Mexico City.
In this study of the use of violence by police forces in Latin America and the United States as well as in the Caribbean, Paul Chevigny investigates torture and the use of deadly force, in addition to less drastic forms of police violence.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Los Angeles and New York in the Americas -- Los Angeles -- New York City -- New York and the Unites States -- The Unites States, Latin America, and the Caribbean -- Sao Paulo -- Buenos Aires -- Jamaica -- Mexico City.
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Publishers Weekly Review
The author is a professor at NYU Law School who has written a classic book on excessive police violence in New York City (Police Power, Pantheon, 1969). The present work displays his same thorough scholarship, fieldwork, and access to guarded sources, such as internal police memos, but its subject matter goes beyond "policing the police" to bring together many strands of contemporary policing. First, it enters the complex field of comparative policing by considering six different police forces: Los Angeles, New York, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Jamaica, and Mexico City. Second, it becomes a sociological study of the circumstances in which societies may resort to excess police violence as a method of social control. Third, in its thoughtful analysis and prescriptions in areas such as civilian review, it furthers understanding of the interdependence of components of criminal justice systems. The text is readable but not flamboyant. Highly recommended for criminal justice collections.-Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Chevigny's 1969 study of "police abuse" in New York City set some basic guidelines for analyzing police brutality in U.S. cities. In the 1980s, Human Rights Watch asked the New York University Law School professor to study police in Jamaica and Latin-American cities. The author draws on those investigations--and on studies of U.S. police forces after the Rodney King incident--in this comparative analysis of police violence in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Jamaica, and Mexico City. Chevigny identifies societal factors that account for differences in the level of official violence each city tolerates, or demands, including military involvement in domestic peacekeeping and police forces structured on a military model, citizens' sense of participation and confidence in the legal order, and accountability in relations between citizens and government. Chevigny recognizes the ambiguous mission of the police in most nations and urges that--particularly when fear of crime tempts citizens to accept police violence as a necessary evil--a wide range of institutions, including local, national, and international oversight bodies, be used to keep arbitrary police violence under control. --Mary Carroll
Edge of the knife
APA
Chevigny P., . (1995). Edge of the knife: police violence in the Americas. New York: New Press.
Chicago
Chevigny Paul, . 1995. Edge of the knife: police violence in the Americas. New York: New Press.
Harvard
Chevigny P., . (1995). Edge of the knife: police violence in the Americas. New York: New Press.
MLA
Chevigny Paul, . Edge of the knife: police violence in the Americas. New York: New Press. 1995.
