Crisis and Control : The Militarization of Protest Policing.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Policing Waves of Protest, 1995-2013 -- 3. To Serve and Protect Who? Policing Trends and Best Practices -- 4. Local Legitimacy and Struggles for Control -- 5. Officers Under Attack - The Thin Blue Line, Pepper Spray, and Police Identity -- 6. Experts, Agencies, the Private Security Sector, and Integration -- 7. Protest as Threat -- 8. Urine-filled Supersoakers -- 9. Crisis and Control -- Notes -- References -- Index.
An activist's guide to understanding the militarisation of the policing of protest.