Contents

Introduction:
Copspeak and the False Promise of Police Reform

1.Weaponology:
Technologies and Tactics of Police Violence

Gun

Throw-Down Weapon

Taser

Tear Gas

Handcuffs

K-9

Racial Profiling

Stop and Frisk

Rough Ride

Body Cavity Search

Curfew

Rape

Lynching

Starlight Tour

Flashlight

Nightstick

Chokehold

Lapel Camera

Police Helicopter

Traffic Stop

Checkpoint

Pain Compliance

2.The Oath:
Core Values of Police

Private Property

Order

Security

Pacification

Law

Crime

Violence

War

Force

Jurisdiction

The Badge

Thin Blue Line

Professionalization

3.Models of Policing:
How the Police Are Organized and Defended

Police Gangs

Community Policing

Red Squads

CRASH

COINTELPRO

Officer Friendly

SWAT

Militarization

Police Uniform

Slave Patrol

Rent-a-Cop

Police Oversight

Police Union

Police Reform

4.Using the Force:
How Police Impose Order

Search

Patrol

The Beat

Investigation

Discretion

Predictive Policing

CompStat

Ghetto

Gentrification

Broken Windows

Vagrancy

Interrogation

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Pursuit

Crowds

Police Brutality

Arrest

Plain View

Asset Forfeiture

Testilying

Cop

5.Copspeak:
How the Police See the World

Threat

Emergency

Bad Apple

Deterrence

Disproportionate

Ferguson Effect

Furtive Movements

Justified

No Humans Involved (NHI)

Noncompliance

Officer-Involved Shooting

The Public

Reasonable Suspicion

Unarmed

Use-of-Force Continuum

Criminology

Epilogue:

On a World Beyond Police