The impact of stop-and-frisk policing on a South Bronx community

What’s it like to be stopped and frisked by the police.  Also while walking home from the supermarket with your young children?  How does it feel to receive a phone call from your fourteen-year-old son.  Then who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of colour cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the

Corner.  Furthermore draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx.  Also before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York.  The decision that ruled that the NYPD’s controversial “stop and frisk” policing methods were a violation of rights.

Through riveting interviews and with a humane eye, Jan Haldipur.  Equally important shows how a community endured this aggressive policing regime. Though the police mostly targeted younger men of colour.  Haldipur focuses on how everyone in the neighbourhood.  Not to mention mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters.  Furthermore the district attorney’s office—was affected by this intense policing regime.  Also thus shows how this South Bronx community as a whole experienced this collective form of punishment. One of Haldipur’s key insights is to demonstrate how police patrols effectively cleared the streets.  And residents also made public spaces feel off-limits or inaccessible to the people who lived there.  In this way community members lost the very ‘street corner’ culture that has been a hallmark of urban spaces. This profound social consequence of aggressive policing.  Also effectively keeps neighbours out of one another’s lives and deeply hurts a community’s sense of cohesion.

No Place on the Corner makes it hard to ignore the widespread consequences of aggressive policing.  And tactics in major cities across the United States.

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Dr. Rubinstein

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great insightful read
2 April 2019 – Published on Books-for-everyone.com
Verified Purchase
With criminal justice reform being an important topic.  This book provides an insightful look at the ramifications of certain policies.  Such as stop and frisk. It was a great read to the point that i couldn’t put it down.

Zon SF Customer

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well researched + interesting take
2 April 2019 – Published on Books-for-everyone.com
Verified Purchase
I found this book to be very well researched + provided an interesting perspective on a topic, that is difficult to unpack. There is deep research here that can’t be easily replicated or found via other sources. Well worth the time.

Fred J.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Insightful, Provocative, and Impactful
3 April 2019 – Published on Books-for-everyone.com
An incredibly thought-provoking read that lays bare many of the unintended consequences of stop-and-frisk policing in New York City. The stories of the young adults in the South Bronx. That have been impacted by the policy are both heartbreaking and infuriating. Simply put, this book is an eye-opening experience; by structuring it as an ethnography.  The author puts you in the shoes of those that have struggled to maintain a sense of normalcy in the face of constant police presence. And, at times, harassment. My hope is that moving forward, policy makers and law enforcement officials take time to read.  Alsoconsider the consequences raised in No Place on the Corner — we’d all be better for it.

Shane Hope, M.A.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Important resource on an important topic
18 April 2019 – Published on Books-for-everyone.com
This is a thoroughly researched treatise concerning the affects of over aggressive policing practices on an entire community. Woven through primary sources and deep investigation.  And then presented in a easily digestible narrative.  I’d recommend this book to anyone interested in criminal justice in modern times.