The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing
Title
The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing
Creator
Fritz Umbach, Gregory Holcomb
Description
The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD’s community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. (Rutgers Univ. Press)
Umbach, Gregory Holcomb. 2011. "The last neighborhood cops the rise and fall of community policing in New York public housing." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
