Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The View From the Streets
- Part II Do We Need Public Police?
- 3 Why We Need Police
- 4 Police Abolitionist Discourse? Why It Has Been Missing (and Why It Matters)
- 5 The Police as Civic Neighbors
- 6 Pretext and Justification: Republicanism, Policing, and Race
- 7 The Paradox of Private Policing
- Part III The Law of Policing
- Part IV Police Force and Police Violence
- Part V Discrimination
- Part VI Technology
- Part VII Reform
- Index
6 - Pretext and Justification: Republicanism, Policing, and Race
from Part II - Do We Need Public Police?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2019
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The View From the Streets
- Part II Do We Need Public Police?
- 3 Why We Need Police
- 4 Police Abolitionist Discourse? Why It Has Been Missing (and Why It Matters)
- 5 The Police as Civic Neighbors
- 6 Pretext and Justification: Republicanism, Policing, and Race
- 7 The Paradox of Private Policing
- Part III The Law of Policing
- Part IV Police Force and Police Violence
- Part V Discrimination
- Part VI Technology
- Part VII Reform
- Index
Summary
On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott – a father, former Coast Guard officer, forklift operator, and licensed massage therapist who was engaged to be married – was driving his twenty-five-year-old Mercedes to buy auto parts in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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