Simon Balto is assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa.
A compelling regional case study of the Chicago Police Department's
vexed relationship with the African American community dating back
to at least the 1910s and extending through the 1970s."--Journal of
African American History
Chronicles the history of police violence and resistance in Chicago
from the Red Summer of 1919 to the 1970s, a period when the
groundwork for mass incarceration was being laid. . . . Until the
appearance of Occupied Territory, little had been written about
policing in twentieth-century Chicago, one of the most populous and
heavily policed cities in the country, and thus Balto's book is a
welcome addition to this body of scholarship."--Chicago Review
One of the many reasons why Balto's book is so crucial is the way
that he demonstrates how Black Chicagoans have resisted CPD
repression for as long as it has existed, from the NAACP and
Chicago Freedom Movement to the Black Panthers to We Charge
Genocide. . . . Balto's book is an essential hundred-plus year
history."--South Side Weekly
With scrupulous archival detail and sharp analytic focus. . . .
Balto has produced a major work of history, forcing us to reimagine
the political geography of the carceral state in ways that will be
essential for any transformative and more just future."--The
Metropole
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