scholarly journals Researching at the community-university borderlands: Using public science to study policing in the South Bronx

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett G. Stoudt ◽  
María Elena Torre ◽  
Paul Bartley ◽  
Evan Bissell ◽  
Fawn Bracy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Police Department ◽  
The South ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Public Science ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Research Action

This article is a case study of the Morris Justice Project (MJP), a participatory action research (PAR) study in a South Bronx neighborhood of New York City (NYC) designed to understand residents’ experiences with and attitudes towards the New York Police Department (NYPD). An illustration of public science, the research was conducted in solidarity with an emerging police reform movement and in response to an ongoing and particularly aggressive set of policing policies that most heavily impacts poor communities and communities of color.  The case study describes a set of ongoing participatory, research-action, “sidewalk science” strategies, developed in 42 square blocks of the South Bronx, designed to better understand and challenge the ongoing structural violence of the carceral state. Collaboratively written with members of the Morris Justice collective, we tell our story across three sections that outline the genesis of the project, describe our major commitments, and offers PAR and public science as a possible “intervention” in traditional university practice.

scholarly journals Police Misconduct, Community Opposition, and Urban Governance in New York City, 1945–1965

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themis Chronopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
World War ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Black Freedom

In the post–World War II period, the police department emerged as one of the most problematic municipal agencies in New York City. Patrolmen and their superiors did not pay much attention to crime; instead they looked the other way, received payoffs from organized crime, performed haphazardly, and tolerated conditions that were unacceptable in a modern city with global ambitions. At the same time, patrolmen demanded deference and respect from African American civilians and routinely demeaned and brutalized individuals who appeared to be challenging their authority. The antagonism between African Americans and the New York Police Department (NYPD) intensified as local and national black freedom organizations paid more attention to police behavior and made police reform one of their main goals.

scholarly journals The Rebuilding of the South Bronx after the Fiscal Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 932-959
Author(s):  
Themis Chronopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Government ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Public Subsidies ◽  
The One

This article explores the rebuilding of the South Bronx since 1977. This rebuilding represents an important public policy accomplishment, since the South Bronx was one of the most physically devastated areas in the United States. In terms of economic policy, the rebuilding of the South Bronx defies linear narratives. One the one hand, public–private partnerships, which represent some of the most important features of urban neoliberalism, were used heavily in the revitalization of the South Bronx. Community organizations that had been rebuilding areas in the South Bronx in the 1970s and the 1980s were required to conform to the requirements of the market, if they were to continue participating in urban development. On the other hand, the building of housing for low- and moderate-income people is not exactly a neoliberal economic policy, since these housing units were built with public subsidies and regulated by government agencies. In its insistence to rebuild the South Bronx as well as other physically devastated areas, the city government of New York became involved in creative financing by incorporating nongovernment organizations that were ran by accomplished businesspeople but remained nonprofit. And whatever the original intentions of city administrations in building and preserving affordable housing in the South Bronx may have been, the accommodation of so many low-income people performing low-paying but essential jobs has contributed to the making of a more vibrant urban economy, even if these same people are not necessarily the ones benefitting from New York’s economic dynamism.

Prevalence of and Risk Factors for HTLV-I and HTLV-II Infection Among Patients at a Hospital in the South Bronx, New York*

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Stephanie H. Factor ◽  
Kathleen L. Irwin ◽  
Renu B. Lal ◽  
Donna Rudolph ◽  
J. Todd Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
New York ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

A New Consul

2020 ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Charles D. Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Important Change ◽  
The South ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Emancipation Proclamation ◽  
New York Police Department

This chapter highlights Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation that promised freedom to millions of slaves in the South. It also explicates how the proclamation coincided with an important change in Nassau: Sam Whiting's tenure in the Bahamas came to an end. After dealing with the August accusations against him by William Butler, Whiting had been busy in September dealing with Dacotah and other issues. The chapter then explains how he caused a “disgraceful scene” in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen on the British Queen. After Whiting wrote to Secretary of State Seward acknowledging the acceptance of his resignation and asserting that he would continue in his duties, the chapter demonstrates Seward's task on finding a replacement. The chapter introduces New York Police Department Chief Clerk Seth Hawley, and discusses his awareness of the trade between New York and Nassau.

Kindred Spirits

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

In this chapter, the author shares the wisdom and wit of some extraordinary people, the “kindred spirits,” as well as the lessons he has learned from each of them, such as Tony Butler, who made his home in the tunnels of the New York City subway; the photographer Margaret Morton, who took pictures of the structures where many homeless people live in the tunnels and under the bridges of Manhattan; Ethel Mohamed, a seamstress who began to embroider her memories after the death of her Lebanese husband; Moishe Sacks, a retired baker and the unofficial rabbi of the Intervale Jewish Center in the South Bronx; Kewulay Kamara, from whom he learned about how an ancient mythology can shape a way of life far from its indigenous roots; former medicine show doc Fred Bloodgood; the young subway graffiti writer Skeme; and Mae Noell, from whom he learned about publishing, finding your voice, and sticking to your guns. The author concludes by recounting some wonderful expressions he has picked up from his travels.

Prevalence of and Risk Factors for HTLV-I and HTLV-II Infection Among Patients at a Hospital in the South Bronx, New York

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Stephanie H. Factor ◽  
Kathleen L. Irwin ◽  
Renu B. Lal ◽  
Donna Rudolph ◽  
J. Todd Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
New York ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx

scholarly journals Battling in the Bronx: Social Choreography and Outlaw Culture Among Early Hip-Hop Streetdancers in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imani Kai Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The South ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Life Lessons ◽  
Social Choreography ◽  
The Impact

This article closely examines oral histories of b-boys Aby and Kwikstep, b-girl Baby Love, and poppers Cartoon and Wiggles, and the social choreography necessary to navigate the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s that has an indelible link to four core battling principles as articulated by 1970s b-boy Trac2: survivalism, strategizing, nomadism, and illusionism. By comparing and contrasting foundational elements of battling techniques with life lessons about growing up in the Bronx, the comparison signals the impact of “outlaw culture” within hip-hop, and the counterdominant sensibilities taught in battle cyphers.

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