STREET JUSTICE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Street Justice traces the stunning history of police brutality
in New York City, and the antibrutality movements that sought to
eradicate it, from just after the Civil War through the present.
New York’s experience with police brutality dates back to the
founding of the force and has shown itself in various forms ever
since: From late-nineteenth-century “clubbing”-the routine
bludgeoning of citizens by patrolmen with nightsticks-to the
emergence of the “third degree,” made notorious by gangster movies,
from the violent mass-action policing of political dissidents
during periods of social unrest, such as the 1930s and 1960s, to
the tumultuous days following September 11.
　　Yet throughout this varied history, the victims of police
violence have remained remarkably similar: they have been
predominantly poor and working class, and more often than not they
have been minorities. Johnson compellingly argues that the culture
of policing will only be changed when enough sustained political
pressure and farsighted thinking about law enforcement is brought
to bear on the problem.