The Vigilant Citizen : Everyday Policing and Insecurity in Miami / Thijs Jeursen.
Jeursen, Thijs, author.
2023
HV8148.M43 J48 2022
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Title The Vigilant Citizen : Everyday Policing and Insecurity in Miami / Thijs Jeursen.
Author Jeursen, Thijs, author.
ISBN 9781479816569
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479816569.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 14 b/w illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9781479816569.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV8148.M43 J48 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.2/309759381
Summary How the problematic behavior of private citizens-and not just the police force itself-contributes to the perpetuation of police brutality and institutional racism"Warning: Neighborhood Watch Program in Force. If I don't call the police, my neighbor will!"Signs like this can be found affixed to telephone poles on streets throughout the US, warning trespassers that the community is an active participant in its own policing efforts. Thijs Jeursen calls this phenomenon, in which individuals take on the responsibility of defending themselves and share with the police the duty to mitigate everyday insecurity, "vigilant citizenship."Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Miami and sharing the stories and experiences of police officers, private security guards, neighborhood watch groups, civil society organizations, and a broad range of residents and activists, Jeursen uses the lens of vigilant citizenship to extend the analysis of police brutality beyond police encounters, focusing on the often blurred boundaries between policing actors and policed citizens and highlighting the many ways in which policing produces and perpetuates inequality and injustice. As a central premise in everyday policing, vigilant citizenship frames racist and violent policing as matters of personal blame and individual guilt, ultimately downplaying the realities of how systemically race operates in policing and US society more broadly. The Vigilant Citizen illustrates how a focus on individualized responsibility for security exacerbates and legitimizes existing inequalities, a situation that must be addressed to end institutionalized racism in politics and the justice system.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Contents
Introduction: At the End of the Day Everybody Goes Home
1. Places and Partnerships of Policing
2. Do the Right Thing
3. Guns for the Good Guys
4. Looking through the Law
Conclusion: American Values?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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