 Similarly, the only way to police a ghetto is to be oppressive. None of the Police Commissioner's men, even with the best will in the world, have any way of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos and threes controlling. Their...  The Politics of Protest - Page 183de Jerome H. Skolnick, United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence - 1969 - 276 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1969 - 246 pages
...people they swagger about in two's and three's controlling. Their very presence is an insult," he wrote, "and it would be, even if they spent their entire...children. They represent the force of the white world." The Problem: Past and Present Though even the best police work sometimes engenders resentment, there... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1985 - 720 pages
...way of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos and threes controlling. Their very presence is an insult, and it would be,...world's criminal profit and ease, to keep the black man corraled up here, in his place. The badge, the gun in the holster, and the swinging club make vivid... | |
 | George S. Bridges, Joseph G. Weis, Robert D. Crutchfield - 1996 - 522 pages
...way of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos and threes controlling. Their very presence is an insult, and it would be,...their entire day feeding gumdrops to children. They present the force of the white world, and that world's criminal profit and ease, to keep the black... | |
 | William M. Tuttle - 1970 - 334 pages
...possibly understand "the lives led by the people they swagger about in two's and three's controlling. Their very presence is an insult, and it would be, even if they spent the entire day feeding gumdrops to children. They represent the force of the white world." A white... | |
 | Richard Bessel, Clive Emsley - 2000 - 172 pages
...way of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos and threes controlling. Their very presence is an insult, and it would be,...represent the force of the white world, and that world's criminal profit and ease, to keep the black man corraled up here, in his place. The badge, the gun... | |
 | Maurice Isserman, Michael Kazin - 1999 - 369 pages
...determined to keep them in their place. "Their very presence is an insult," wrote Baldwin in 1960, "and it would be, even if they spent their entire day feeding gumdrops to children." So the normal relationship between urban blacks and the police was full of tension and violence, suggested... | |
 | Kenneth T. Jackson, David S. Dunbar - 2002 - 1026 pages
...way of understanding the lives led by the people they swagger about in twos and threes controlling. Their very presence is an insult, and it would be,...world's criminal profit and ease, to keep the black man corraled up here, *The inhabitants of Riverton were much embittered by this description; they have,... | |
 | Ronald Weitzer, Steven A. Tuch - 2006
...where he is." As for blacks' views at the time, police were hardly the friendly bobby on the beat: "Their very presence is an insult, and it would be...spent their entire day feeding gumdrops to children" (Baldwin 1962:67,65). Baldwin's observations were confirmed by two blue-ribbon commissions. The President's... | |
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