New PDF release: The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment

The Chicago Police division is notorious for high-profile situations of overt corruption, violence and racism. for instance, among March 2011 and September 2015, voters around the urban filed greater than 28,000 allegations of police misconduct, with 2,000 fees coming from a unmarried local. In The battle on Neighborhoods, Ryan Lugalia-Hollon and Dan Cooper interview citizens, cops, group activists, judges, businesspeople, and those that were out and in of the penal method in Austin, a majority black local on Chicago's West facet, the place the incarceration price is forty-two occasions better than the highest-ranked white neighborhood. via first-hand reporting and cautious research, Lugalia-Hollon and Cooper convey how punitive sanctions have systematically maintained a perpetual kingdom of sickness and disenfranchisement in the neighborhood instead of a feeling of public security and safety. This development could be noticeable national: in towns around the nation, particular neighborhoods are punished and starved of funding in optimistic neighborhood constructions which may let citizens to arrive their complete potential.

Incisive and informative, The struggle on Neighborhoods makes the case for a progressive reformation of our policing version that shifts concentration from punishment and police-mandated arrest quotas, and lifts up the ability of citizens, beaches up local constructions, and addresses the results of trauma and poverty. What the authors demand eventually is a profound shift in how we predict approximately making an investment in city communities--away from the perverse misinvestment of incarceration and towards a version that invests in people.