The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input

by Tony Cheng

A revelatory look at how the NYPD has resisted change through strategic and selective community engagement.

The past few years have seen Americans express passionate demands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and body cameras has exploded, any changes to police procedures have only led to the same outcomes. Despite calls for increased accountability, police departments have successfully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226830632
• ISBN13: 9780226830636
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"