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03131aam a2200385 i 4500 001 4EA9AAF6CD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240217010049 008 230720s2024 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023022359 020 $a 0231198477 020 $a 9780231198479 020 $a 0231198469 020 $a 9780231198462 035 $a (OCoLC)1395554119 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV8141 $b .S533 2023 082 00 $a 363.20973 $2 23/eng/20230829 100 1 $a Sierra-AreÌvalo, Michael, $e author. 245 14 $a The danger imperative : $b violence, death, and the soul of policing / $c Michael Sierra-AreÌvalo. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b [Columbia University Press], $c [2023] 300 $a 348 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "The 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO drew serious attention to the intersection of policing, race, and inequality in the United States. While some argue that mounting scrutiny of police is evidence of a "war on cops," decades of declining line-of-duty deaths contradict this view. Our understanding of how marginalized communities are disproportionately targeted by police through surveillance and coercive force has increased, yet few have pierced the thin blue line to investigate why police officers believe that they are in greater danger. In The Danger Imperative, Michael Sierra-AreÌvalo takes readers inside the institutions of policing, from police academy training to inside police stations to the squad car and street in an effort to understand why the police approach even the most mundane interactions with a plan for sudden and lethal violence. Though justified as safety enhancing, a survival-centric approach to policing - what Sierra-AreÌvalo calls the danger imperative - turns interactions between the police and public into heightened, antagonistic situations. Sierra-AreÌvalo shows how this interaction style is a mechanism for the reproduction of inequalities in police coercion ranging from stops and searches to the use of force, and that these inequitable outcomes are not dependent on officers' immorality. Instead, policing is structured as a constellation of laws, policies, and organizational processes steeped in a violent language of threat of officer safety that leads them to act on implicit biases about who is considered suspicious, guilty, and dangerous. This is, argues Sierra-AreÌvalo, not a failure of the criminal justice system but rather it is the criminal justice system working as intended"-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Survival school -- Ghosts of the fallen -- The threat network -- Going home at night. 650 0 $a Police $z United States. 650 0 $a Police brutality $z United States. 650 0 $a Police-community relations $z United States. 650 0 $a Danger $z United States. 650 0 $a Equality $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217010843.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4EA9AAF6CD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search