From Enforcers To Guardians A Public Health Primer On Ending Police Violence Hannah L F Cooper by Hannah L. F. Cooper, Mindy Thompson Fullilove 9781421436449, 1421436442 instant download after payment.

Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L.F. Cooper & Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, & nonfatal physical violence as well.

Arguing that excessive police violence has been deliberately used to marginalize working-class & minority communities, Cooper & Fullilove describe what we known about the history, distribution, & health impacts of police violence, from slave patrols in colonial times to war on drugs policing in the present-day United States. 

Finally, the book surveys efforts, including Barack Obama's 2015 creation of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, to eliminate police violence, & proposes a multisystem, multilevel strategy to end marginality & police violence & to achieve guardian policing.

Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes & distributions of excessive police violence—& to develop interventions to end it—From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, & taught about through a public health lens.