Policing the City: An Ethno-Graphic

Author

Frédéric Debomy

Original Work

Policing the City

Translator

Rachel Gomme

Language

English

Year

2022

Publisher

Other Press

Country

United States

Pages

112

ISBN

9781635422504

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What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from tragic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping accounts obscure two crucial aspects of police work: the tedium of everyday patrols under constant pressure to meet quotas, and the banality of racial discrimination and ordinary violence. Around the time of the 2005 French riots, anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin spent fifteen months observing up close the da— Google Books