Down, out, and under arrest : policing and everyday life in skid row / Forrest Stuart.
Stuart, Forrest, author.
2016
HV7936.P8 S78 2016eb
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Title Down, out, and under arrest : policing and everyday life in skid row / Forrest Stuart.
Author Stuart, Forrest, author.
ISBN 9780226370958 (electronic book)
022637095X (electronic book)
9780226370811
022637081X
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number HV7936.P8 S78 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.2/320869420979494
Summary In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, sociologist Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk--an arrestable offense in LA. What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? How did we reach a point where we've cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That's the complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in this close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart's years of fieldwork--not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged with managing them--is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced priorities more than on heroes and villains. He reveals a situation where a lot of people on both sides of this issue are genuinely trying to do the right thing, yet often come up short. Sometimes, in ways that do serious harm. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart's book helps us see where we've gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens--and ultimately our society itself--for the better.--From dust jacket.
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