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The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as policing)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,283 ratings — published 2017
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as policing)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,034 ratings — published 2013
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as policing)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,719 ratings — published 2021
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as policing)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,027 ratings — published 2021
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as policing)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,181 ratings — published 2010
Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as policing)
avg rating 4.35 — 423 ratings — published 2003
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as policing)
avg rating 4.15 — 278 ratings — published 2016
When Police Kill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as policing)
avg rating 3.84 — 68 ratings — published
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,559 ratings — published 2015
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,237 ratings — published 2007
Chokehold: Policing Black Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,111 ratings — published 2017
Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (American Crossroads) (Volume 56)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.06 — 82 ratings — published
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as policing)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,017 ratings — published 2003
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,410 ratings — published 2018
Police: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.03 — 255 ratings — published 2018
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,045 ratings — published 2017
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.42 — 103 ratings — published 2019
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,541 ratings — published 2017
The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 4.29 — 104 ratings — published 2000
To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as policing)
avg rating 3.83 — 168 ratings — published 2016
No More Police: A Case for Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.58 — 476 ratings — published
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.70 — 177 ratings — published 2017
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.98 — 323 ratings — published 2021
The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.97 — 225 ratings — published
Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,959 ratings — published 2021
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.51 — 824 ratings — published 2020
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.64 — 5,974 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,251 ratings — published 2021
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.88 — 229 ratings — published 2019
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.67 — 141 ratings — published 2020
Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.86 — 22 ratings — published
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,811 ratings — published 2018
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.39 — 197 ratings — published 1978
Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2006
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,389 ratings — published 2017
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.00 — 336,537 ratings — published 2019
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.11 — 149 ratings — published
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.58 — 630 ratings — published 2017
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.89 — 171 ratings — published 2015
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,275 ratings — published 2016
Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 2001
Great British Bobby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as policing)
avg rating 3.87 — 54 ratings — published 2009
Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.48 — 33 ratings — published
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,400 ratings — published 1992
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.62 — 64 ratings — published
Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.07 — 325 ratings — published
Why People Obey the Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 3.70 — 70 ratings — published 1990
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.14 — 399 ratings — published 1999
The Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as policing)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,844 ratings — published 2021
“It won’t bring Lucy and Scarlet back but it will, at least, mean that justice has been done. The words have a cold, biblical ring that surprises him, but when you come down to it that is what police work is all about. Protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty.”
― The Crossing Places
― The Crossing Places
“standard forms are sometimes called conventions, conventions are mightier than armies, police, and prisons. each citizen becomes the enforcer, the doorkeeper, an instrument of the Law, an unfeeling guard punching his fellow man hard in the belly.”
― Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
― Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
