The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification by Anne Gray Fischer. University of North Carolina Press, 298 pp., $29.95
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall by Anna Lvovsky. University of Chicago Press, 337 pp., $105.00; $35.00 (paper)
We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba, edited by Tamara K. Nopper and with a foreword by Naomi Murakawa. Haymarket, 206 pp., $45.00; $16.95 (paper)
At the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, where I taught for twenty-three years, I consistently had police officers, their partners, and their children as my students. Most were Italian American or Irish American, but in recent years I saw more Latino, Asian,…
