** Foreword: Police and Power in America

** Preface, 2014

*** Suburban Warfare

*** Twice in Two Weeks

*** Officers Down

*** “A Legitimacy Problem”

*** Revisions

** Introduction by Andrea J. Ritchie: Broken Windows, Broken System

** 1: Police Brutality in Theory and Practice

*** The Rodney King Beating: “Basic Stuff Really”

*** A Social Conflagration

*** A Lesson To Learn and Learn Again

*** The Basics

*** Defining Brutality

*** Why We Know So Little about Police Brutality

*** A Look at the Numbers

*** Explaining Away the Abuse

*** The Dangers of the Job

*** Institutionalized Brutality

*** The Police, the State, and Social Conflict

** 2: The Origins of American Policing

*** Characteristics of Modern Police

*** English Predecessors

*** Colonial Forerunners

*** Slave Codes, Slave Patrols

*** Racist Contradictions

*** Across the South

*** City Guards

*** Patrols in Perspective

*** Charleston: “Keeping Down the Niggers”[295]

*** New Orleans: “Barbarism,” “Despotism,” and “A System of Violence”

*** New York: “Almost Every Conceivable Crime”

** 3: The Genesis of a Policed Society

*** Machine Politics, State Power, and Monopolies of Violence

*** The Preventive Ideal, Generalized Powers, and Specialization

*** Urbanization and Industrialization

*** The Demand for Order

*** Imitation, Experimentation, Evolution

*** The Policed Society

** 4: Cops and Klan, Hand in Hand

*** Reconstruction and Redemption: Who Won the War?

*** Slave Patrols Revisited

*** Profiles and Prejudice

*** The Flawed Logic of Racial Profiling

*** Color by Numbers

*** Crackdown in Seattle

*** Stop and Frisk: Racial Profiling on Trial

*** Consequences of Profiling

*** Racial Lines, National Borders

*** White and Wealthy Criminals (an Aside)

*** Secret Societies, Public Terror

*** Birmingham: Bull Connor and the Law

*** The Strange Career of Gary Rowe

*** Selma, Alabama: Bloody Sunday

*** Panthers and Police

*** Greensboro: Death and the Klan

*** Since the Seventies

*** A Storm in New Orleans

*** White Sheets, Blue Uniforms

** 5: The Natural Enemy of the Working Class

*** The Majestic Equality of the Law

*** Strikebreakers, Pinkertons, and Police

*** Moments of Ambivalence[790]

*** Bread and Roses, Bayonets and Cloth

*** General Strike and Reign of Terror

*** “Bought and Paid For”

*** Policing the Abattoir

*** Class Conflict, Continuity, and Change: The Long View

** 6: Police Autonomy and Blue Power

*** From Strikebreakers to Strikers (and Back Again)

*** The Death of the Machines

*** Bureaucratization and Bourgeois Control

*** Professionalization: A Conspiracy Against the Laity[931]

*** Unionization and Blue Power

*** Wage Slaves and Overseers

*** Police Unions Aren’t Unions

*** The Police Union as a Semi-Autonomous Component of the State

** 7: Secret Police, Red Squads, and the Strategy Of Permanent Repression

*** Haymarket: “Anarchy is on trial.”

*** Repression 101

*** The Red Squads

*** A Renaissance of Repression

*** COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Greatest Hits

*** Beyond COINTELPRO

*** The Death of the Red Squads?

*** Secret Files

*** A Shell Game

*** Red Squads Reborn

*** The Unreported Repression

*** “A New Day in Secret Government”

*** Register, Detain, Infiltrate, Entrap

*** The NYPD at War

*** The Other War on Terror

*** Anarchists, Again

*** Looking Left, Leaning Right

*** The Left/Right Imbalance

*** Rethinking Unrest

** 8: Riot Police or Police Riots?

*** Seattle, 1999: Dance Party, Street Fight, No-Protest Zone

*** Assessing the Police Response: “What Not to Do”

*** Early Strategies

*** Rationalizing Force

*** A Glimpse at 1968

*** Anatomy of a Police Riot

*** Revising the Theory

*** Playing by the Rules

*** Toward a New Model

*** Good Protester/Bad Protester; Good Cop/Bad Cop

*** Contested Territory

** 9: Your Friendly Neighborhood Police State

*** Bringing the War Home

*** Funding, Arming, Planning

*** SWAT: From Occasional Shoot-Outs to Routine Patrol

*** The Drug War and Other Dangerous Habits

*** Officer Friendly?

*** Changing Course

*** Pursuing Legitimacy

*** Third-Party Policing and Co-optation

*** Community Policing and Policy Communities

*** The Hard Edge of Community Policing

*** Fixating on Broken Windows

*** The Future (and Past) of Public Order

*** Inoculated City: The New New York[1509]

*** Militarization in the Community Policing Context

*** Community Policing + Militarization = Counterinsurgency

*** Meet the New Cop, Same as the Old Cop[1574]

** Afterword: Making Police Obsolete

*** Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

*** Crime as a Source of State Power

*** The Threat of Community

*** Seattle, 1919: Labor Guards

*** Fight the Power, Serve the People: Deacons and Panthers

*** Gang Peace

*** Feminist Interventions

*** The Accountability Crisis

*** South Africa: Popular Justice and State Power

*** Popular Justice in Northern Ireland: The Other Peace Process

*** The Search for Legitimacy

*** Unanswered Questions (Or, What’s So Funny ’bout Peace, Love and Understanding?)[1734]

** Acknowledgments

** Selected Bibliography

**** Institutionalized Brutality and Police Culture