Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD

by Max Felker-Kantor

Book Overview

When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty. But the more immediate grievance was anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department. Yet in the decades after Watts, the LAPD resisted all but the most limited demands for reform made by activists and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469659182
• ISBN13: 9781469659183
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"