Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City

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Index 293 abortion, legalized, and impact on crime rates, 113 accountability of police, ix, xii, 149 activism. See community activism AIDs activists, 185, 192 Alien Tort Claims Act, 196, 197, 206–8 Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, 186 Amnesty International, 88, 92, 122, 155, 161, 167, 168, 193, 196. See also human rights Anemone, Louis R., 24 anti-brutality movement, 10, 183, 223–24, 226, 238, 266 anti-Communist league, 227, 229 anti-gang campaigns, 224–25, 229 Asian American radicals, 226–28 Association Pro-Inmates Rights/Netas, 186, 187 Atlantic Monthly, article on “broken windows ,” 20 Audre Lorde Project, 11, 31, 251; ALP Working Group on Police Violence, 251, 253, 264 Baez, Anthony, 2, 156, 181, 188, 272–80 Baez, David, 272–73, 275–76, 279 Baez, Iris, 180–81, 183, 185, 188, 193, 276, 279 Bai, Jane, 188, 190, 192 Baltimore, Maryland, 5 Barrett, Nicole, 28, 62–63 Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms, 201 Batista, Norman, 156 Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, 55 Bell, Derrick, 243–50, 287, 289 Bellevue Hospital, 58 Bittner, Egon, 150 black community, 85, 226–27, 230–31, 244–45 Black Panther Party, 226, 228 Boria, Daisy, 157 Boss, Kenneth, 2 Bratton, William, 25, 31, 109, 110, 111, 120, 185 bribes, 152 Britain, 5, 201–2 “broken windows” theory, 4, 19, 20, 21, 32, 53, 112, 114 Broadway, 22 Bronx, 1, 155 Brooklyn, 1, 2, 85 Brooklyn House of Detention of Men, 80 Brooklyn South television show, 85–103 Brown, Lee (former police commissioner), 245 Bruce, Lenny, 282–84 Bruder, Thomas, 2 brutality. See police brutality Buffalo, New York, 162 Bumpers, Eleanor, 74 Busch, Gidone (Gary), 51–52, 74, 75, 92, 114 Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), 8, 59, 63–65, 80, 232, 287 Carroll, Sean, 2 Carter, David, 31–33 Castells, Manuel, 9–10 Cedeno, Kevin, 151, 154 Center for Constitutional Rights, 161, 183 Center for Court Innovation, 66 Central Conference of American Rabbis, 63 Charas/El Bohio, 9 Chevigny, Paul, vii, 152, 161, 163, 289 Chinatown, 3, 8, 221–41 Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association , 235 Christadora House, 9 CID (cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment ), 198, 200 Citizens Budget Commission, 111, 120 City Council, 91 Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), 30, 92, 117–18, 136, 168, 185 civilian complaints, ix, 117 civil rights, viii, 2, 6, 10, 12, 60, 152, 158, 167, 198, 250. See also human rights civil rights suits, 185, 188 class issues, 70, 86 Clinton, Bill (President), 211 Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 63 coalitions, 186, 191, 247, 267 Colecchia, Paolo, 157 Coles, Catherine, 25–26 Columbus, Ohio, 162 Commission to Combat Police Corruption , 92 Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV), 11, 185, 188, 190, 221, 223, 237, 289 Commonwealth Fund, 24 community activism, 1, 3, 9, 10, 12, 33–34, 179–93, 226, 238, 245–46, 249, 264, 271 comunity courts, 66–68, 80 Community Mental Health Reinvestment Act, 56–57 community-police relations, viii, ix, 32, 114, 163 community policing, x, 9, 31, 32, 67, 115–16, 245 community policing officer (CPO), 33 Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP), 84 Compstat, 24, 34, 119–20 Convention Against Torture (CAT), 197, 198–201, 204 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), 197, 200, 205 cop shows, 85, 86, 94, 127 corruption. See police corruption Creedmoor Hospital, 59 crime rate and statistics, 23, 60, 68, 86, 88, 112, 118, 120, 283; increase in hate crimes, 253; increase in misdemeanor arrests, 115 criminalization of mental illness, xii, 28, 54, 58–59, 62, 68–70 criminal justice spending, 123 crisis intervention services, 53, 74–75 cruising areas, 29. See also public lewdness Cuomo, Albert, 63 Cuomo, Mario (former governor), 56, 90 customary laws, 197, 202, 205 Daughtry, Herbert, 183, 184, 189 decompensate, 83 Delany, Samuel, 88 demonstrations, 180, 186, 187. See also protests Department of Correction, 108, 121 Department of Mental Health, 78 Desk Appearance Tickets (DATs), 115 deviance, as defined by police, 35 Diallo, Amadou, 1–2, 10, 92, 114, 155, 163, 180, 189, 191, 192, 196, 252, 266 Diallo, Kadiadou, 179 Dinkins, David (former mayor), 56, 89, 111, 116, 123, 190 disorderly behavior, 21, 25–27, 31, 34, 35, 38–39, 62, 63 dollar-van drivers, 223, 225, 231, 233–34 Donohue, John, 113 Dorismond, Patrick, 3, 12, 92, 191 Dowd, Michael, 89 Dragon Gate struggle, 235, 236 Drake, Paris, 63 drinking in public, 6, 21, 26, 27, 40–41, 53, 60, 111 drug trafficking, 24, 27, 61, 66, 116, 119...