Introduction

PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

1 “Slangin’ Rocks … Palestinian Style” Dispatches from the Occupied Zones of North America ROBIN D. G. KELLEY

2 Persecution of Negroes by Roughs and Policemen, in the City of New York, August 1900 Citizens’ Protective League, COMPILED BY FRANK MOSS (FROM THE COLLECTION OF ELVIN MONTGOMERY)

3 Police Brutality Portent of Disaster and Discomforting Divergence DERRICK BELL

4 Nation under Siege Elijah Muhammad, the FBI, and Police-State Culture in Chicago CLAUDE A. CLEGG III

PART II. THE POLITICS OF POLICE BRUTALITY

5 “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?” Police Violence and the Black Community KATHERYN K. RUSSELL

6 Obstacle Illusions The Cult of Racial Appearance PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS

7 What’s New? The Truth, As Usual STANLEY CROUCH

PART III. POLICING THE POLICE

8 From the Inside Looking Out Twenty-nine Years in the New York Police Department LIEUTENANT ARTHUR DOYLE (RETIRED)

PART IV. REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE

9 Another Day at the Front Encounters with the Fuzz on the American Battlefront ISHMAEL REED

10 Under the Veil of Suspicion Organizing Resistance and Struggling for Liberation RICHARD AUSTIN

11 Point No. 7: We Want an Immediate End to Police Brutality and the Murder of Black People Why I Joined the Black Panther Party FLORES ALEXANDER FORBES

12 The Crisis of Police Brutality and Misconduct in America The Causes and the Cure RON DANIELS

Biographical Notes

Acknowledgments