Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
- ISBN-10
- 0807050237
- ISBN-13
- 9780807050231
- Series
- Street Justice
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 365
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Author
- Marilynn S. Johnson
Description
A professor of history at Boston college unravels the cycles of police brutality and subsequent reform movements within the history of New York City, beginning with the foundation of the NYPD in 1845 and concluding in the present. Reprint.
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