The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing

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227 INDEX Abraham Lincoln Houses, 19, 20, 29 Adams, Francis, 31 affirmative action, 94, 130–133, 217n44 Ahmed, Hannibal, 74 Albany Houses, 50 Alfred Smith Houses, 88, 99 Alfson, Mary, 1, 47, 103–104, 128 Alfson, Tricia, 47, 129 American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities, 155 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 117 American Jewish Committee, 139 Amsterdam Houses, 19, 20, 28, 47, 86, 88, 186n1 Amsterdam News, 35, 36, 50, 68, 72, 97, 98, 117 Anekwe, Simon Obi, 72 Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, 150, 156–157, 162 architecture, effects on policing strategies, 44, 145–149 Arum, Richard, 114 Atlanta, GA, 46 Atlantic Monthly, 17, 121 Baldwin, Anthony, 30, 31, 34, 35 Baldwin, James, 211n106 Baltimore, MD, 7, 61, 71, 128 Balzano, Joseph, 97, 140 Barbieri, Robert, 60 Bard, Morton, 45, 126 Barker, Vanessa, 117 Biondi, Martha, 32, 35 Blackburne, Laura, 118 Black Liberation Army, 95, 98 Black Panthers, 73, 74, 95, 96 Black Power, 6, 68, 69, 96, 98 Bloom, Nicholas, 32, 34, 63, 108–109, 140 Blue Revolution, 2, 3 Borinquen Plaza, 127 Boston Legal Services, 154 Bratton, William, 168 Brazini, Sal, 31 Breslin, Jimmy, 45 broken windows policing, 16, 17–18, 128, 185n63. See also community policing Bronxdale Houses, 147–148 Bronx Model Precinct, 83–84, 103, 169 Brooke, Edward, 124 Brooke Amendment of 1969, 122, 123–124 Brown, Arthur, 19, 20, 89, 171 Brown, Lee, 162 Burger, Warren, 111 Bushwick Houses, 127 CAPS. See Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy carceral state, 10–11, 156 Caro, Robert, 33 Carson, Sonny, 69 Cassese, John, 70 Castle Hill Houses, 48, 53, 54, 66, 130 Cedeno, Blanca, 115 Chicago, IL, public housing in, 54, 90, 122, 196n47 Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS), 18, 66–67 Children’s Defense Fund, 114 Citizens Housing and Planning Council, 20 Civilian Complaint Review Board, 70 civil liberties, 18, 106, 117 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 131 civil rights movement, historiography of, 5–6, 76 Clinton, Bill, 155–156 Clinton Houses, 150 Clockers (film), 166 Cloward, Richard, 65, 71, 72, 105–107; Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs, 105 cocaine, crack, 10, 120, 125, 138, 143–144, 149–151, 154, 215n23 collective efficacy, 128. See also informal control Colonial Park Houses, 95–96, 97; Colonial Park Houses murders, 95–97 communism, accusations of, in NYCHA, 33–34, 137 communitarianism, 155 community action: groups, 64–65; theory of, 55, 105–114 “community mothering,” 62–63, 155, 158 community organizing, 6, 17, 62, 64, 71 community-oriented policing, 16–17. See also community policing community policing, 1–4, 11–13, 51–52, 77, 170–171; arguments against, 3–4; brief resurgence of, in NYCHA, 161, 162–166; decline of, in NYCHA, 7–8, 101–102, 119, 134–137; defined, 16; emergence of, 15–19; factors in the decline of, in NYCHA, 7–8, 79–117, 119, 134, 135, 142, 163–164, 169; NYCHA residents’ opposition to, 89, 129–130; NYCHA residents’ participation in, 66, 163, 199n98; preventive functions of, 50; vs. reform policing, 25–26, 29–41; role of neighborhood conditions in, 38 Community Service Officer (CSO) Program, 92–97, 208n64; in NYCHA, 93–94; in NYPD, 92–93, 136 Comprehensive Drug Abuse, Prevention, and Control Act of 1970, 153 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, 207–208n57 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 69 Conlon, Edward, Blue Blood, 164–165, 223n9 Cooper Park Houses, 50–51, 64–65, 127 crack. See cocaine, crack crime: rates, in New York City, 137, 138, 142–145, 174; theories of, 30–31, 105, 188n30 criminal justice system, punitive turn in, 8, 10–11, 170, 225n26. See also carceral state criminal justice theory, role of psychology in, 30–31 Cruise, Philip, 33, 34 CSO. See Community Service Officer (CSO) Program Curtis, Fredrich “Butch,” 171 Cypress Hill Houses, 49 Daley, Daniel J., 84 Davies, Garth, 138, 144 Davis et al. v. City of New York, 176 defensible space, 147–149, 220nn91,92. See also Newman, Oscar deindustrialization, in New York City, 87–88 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act. See Model Cities Program Dinkins, David, 118, 125, 162 discrimination, in housing, 24–25, 35–36, 46, 190–191n58 Dominguez, Ralph, 75 Douglas, William, 57 Douglas Houses, 73 Drew Houses, 73 Duke Power, 131 Dumanovsky, Tamara, 143table Dyckman Houses, 99–100 East Harlem Project, 62 East River Houses, 26 Edenwald Houses, 150 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 132 Escalera, Pedro and Rose, 116 Escalera Consent Decree. See Escalera v. NYCHA Escalera v. NYCHA, 10–11, 111, 112–116, 119, 150, 153...