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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Lexile measure
1550L
Language
English
Description
Lawrence extensively analyzes more than 500 incidents of police use-of-force covered by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991. The incidents include but are not limited to those defined as "police brutality". Lawrence reveals the structural and cultural forces that both shape the news and allow police to define most use-of-force incidents, which occur in far greater numbers than are reported, she says. Lawrence explores the...
5) Contesting the iron fist: advocacy networks and police violence in democratic Argentina and Chile
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Contributions in comparative colonial studies volume no. 46
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
10) Legal tender
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend announces he is dissolving their legal practice for a partnership with another woman, lawyer Bennie Rosato is shocked. Nothing like the shock she gets when police arrive to say the boyfriend is dead and they think she killed him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When Zach, a white boy from Philly, moves to a racially divided town, he befriends Black siblings Capri and Justin, but when the police murder one of their friends, the town erupts into an all-out war, with Capri, Justin, and Zach caught in the middle.
14) River runs red
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the son of a man is killed by two police officers and they are set free, the father takes justice into his own hands.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became cemented into public memory, the American public took to the streets in unprecedented numbers to mourn, organize, and demand changes to the current system of policing. In response, police departments across the country committed themselves to change, pledging...
19) Dear Martin
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.