Policing Of The G20 Protests

Author : Margaret E. Beare,Nathalie Des Rosiers,Abigail C. Deshman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774828321

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Putting the State on Trial by Margaret E. Beare,Nathalie Des Rosiers,Abigail C. Deshman Pdf

Canada is often lauded as a model democracy that values the constitutional rights of its citizens. So when over a thousand people – most of whom were peaceful protesters or hapless bystanders – were violently arrested and then detained without charge during the G20 Summit in Toronto in 2010, many Canadians felt shock and outrage. Putting the State on Trial: The Policing of Protest during the G20 Summit examines the political, social, and economic conditions that “allowed” the policing of the summit to culminate in human and civil rights violations. Written by a multi-disciplinary group of scholars and legal practitioners, this book contextualizes events before, during, and after the summit from a range of perspectives. Although the G20 protests serve as a point of departure in every chapter, the contributing authors engage with larger questions about the control of dissent, the impact of the securitization and internationalization of Canadian politics, the implications of legal uncertainty, and the accountability vacuum.

Author : Tom Malleson,David Wachsmuth
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781926662824

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Whose Streets? by Tom Malleson,David Wachsmuth Pdf

In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the front lines and analyses of the broader context, an account that both reflects critically on what occurred in Toronto and looks ahead to further building our capacity for resistance. Featuring reflections from activists who helped organize the mobilizations, demonstrators and passersby who were arbitrarily arrested and detained, and scholars committed to the theory and practice of confronting neoliberal capitalism, the collection balances critical perspective with on-the-street intensity. It offers vital insight for activists on how local organizing and global activism can come together.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0215532503

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Policing of the G20 Protests by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee Pdf

The policing of the G20 Protests in April 2009 was a remarkably successful operation; more than 35,000 protesters demonstrated in the centre of London with a police presence of several thousand, yet there was a minimum of disruption. Aside from a few high-profile incidents, the policing of the G20 Protests passed without drama. However, these incidents and the tactics that led to them caused considerable adverse comment and have the potential to damage the public's faith in the police. The use of containment (detaining people in a confined area for a sustained period of time), and distraction tactics (the controlled use of force against those who appear hostile) while legitimate according to the police rule-book, shocked the public. Whether they should continue to be used must form the basis of a wide-ranging discussion on the future policing of public protests. Police communications with the media and the protesters must also improve. This would require the police, media and protesters to engage better with one another both before and during the protest. There are no circumstances in which it is acceptable for officers not to wear identification numbers and urgent action must be taken to ensure that officers have the resources to display identification at all times; those officers found to be consciously removing their identification numbers must face the strongest possible disciplinary measures. While the vast majority of officers on duty performed very well, the Committee is concerned that untrained and inexperienced officers were placed in such a highly combustible atmosphere. It cannot condone the use of untrained, inexperienced officers on the front-line of a public protest and feel that an element of luck must be attributed to the success of the operation.

Author : Lesley J. Wood
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771131629

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Crisis and Control by Lesley J. Wood Pdf

Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal shifts in political and economic systems are militarizing the policing of protest. The book offers a way to understand the influence of political processes on police practices and provides an empirical study of militarized protest policing from 1995 until the present. Lesley J. Wood shows how protest policing techniques have become more militarized and more dependent on intelligence gathering over the past fifteen years partly as a result of the neoliberal restructuring political, economic and social processes. On an increasingly integrated and tumultuous globe, new militarized technologies, formations and frameworks are diffusing quickly through policing networks. Crisis and Control uses novel theoretical and methodological approaches and a unique range of empirical data to make an important and radical contribution to a growing field.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0215543637

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Policing of the G20 Protests by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee Pdf

Government response to HC 418, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780215532503). This paper replaces HC 301 (ISBN 9780215543486) issued on 22.01.10

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0215543483

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Policing of the G20 protests by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee Pdf

Government response to HC 418, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780215532503). Withdrawn and replaced by HC 201 sessino 2009-10 (ISBN 9780215543639)

Author : Alok Mukherjee,Tim Harper
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771621847

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Excessive Force by Alok Mukherjee,Tim Harper Pdf

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration with Tim Harper, former Toronto Star national affairs columnist, Mukherjee reveals how Police Chief Bill Blair changed the channel after the police-killing of Sammy Yatim. He explains how society has given police tacit approval to cull people in mental health crisis and pulls the curtain back on a police culture which avoids accountability, puts officer safety above public safety, colludes on internal investigations and pushes for use of force over empathy and crisis resolution. The book takes the reader inside the G20 debacle; the police push for an ever-growing budget; the battle over carding, which disproportionately targeted blacks; the police treatment of its own members in mental health distress; and the battles with an entrenched union that pushed back on Mukherjee’s every move toward reform. In spite of, or as a result of all this, Mukherjee played a leading role in shaping the national conversation about policing, sketching a way forward for a new type of policing that brings law enforcement out of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first century. There is no shortage of “inside” police books written by former cops. Here is a rare title—not only in Canada but the Western world—written from the community’s perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Anti-globalization movement
ISBN : 1926662830

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Whose Streets? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canada
ISBN : 149853371X

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Policing and Social Media by Christopher J. Schneider Pdf

This book illustrates the process by which social media and related changes in communication formats have affected the public face of policing and police work in Canada. Schneider argues that police use of social media has altered institutional public police practices in a manner that is consistent with the logic of social media platforms.

Author : Daniel Trottier,Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317655473

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Social Media, Politics and the State by Daniel Trottier,Christian Fuchs Pdf

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.

Author : S. Caroline Taylor,Daniel Joseph Torpy,Dilip K. Das
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466581241

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Policing Global Movement by S. Caroline Taylor,Daniel Joseph Torpy,Dilip K. Das Pdf

The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially‘some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling. Consequently, the policing of human movement within and across borders has been and remains a significant concern to nations. Policing Global Movement: Tourism, Migration, Human T

Author : Isabel Ortiz,Sara Burke,Mohamed Berrada,Hernán Saenz Cortés
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030885137

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World Protests by Isabel Ortiz,Sara Burke,Mohamed Berrada,Hernán Saenz Cortés Pdf

This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of outrage and discontent, a time that has already produced some of the largest protests in world history. This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption. It also analyzes who was demonstrating in each protest; what protest methods they used; who the protestors opposed; what was achieved; whether protests were repressed; and trends such as inequality and the rise of women’s and radical right protests. The book concludes that the demands of protestors in most of the protests surveyed are in full accordance with human rights and internationally agreed-upon UN development goals. The book calls for policy-makers to listen and act on these demands.

Author : Rinaldo Walcott
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771964081

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On Property by Rinaldo Walcott Pdf

Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award • Longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care.

Author : Matt Foot,Morag Livingstone
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839762512

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Charged by Matt Foot,Morag Livingstone Pdf

Charged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, in their pursuit of more control, how do the police manage crowds, provoke violence and even break the law? Since the 1980s under successive governments the police have been allowed to suppress protests, using aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. The landscape of how police deal with protest changed following criticism of the police during the 1981 Brixton riots. New military-style tactics were sanctioned by the Thatcher government, in secret. Over the next forty years those protesting against racism, unfair job losses, draconian laws, or for environmental protection were subject to brutal tactics. In the aftermath, media attention denigrates protesters while the police are praised and continue to act with impunity. Looking through these moments of conflict widens our understanding of policing public order to reveal the true character of the state. Since the 1980s successive governments, from Thatcher to Johnson, covertly plot to suppress protests, using standardised aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti poll tax campaigners, student protestors and Black Lives Matter. The voices of protesters however have been undeterred.

Author : Donatella Della Porta,Herbert Reiter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081663064X

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Policing Protest by Donatella Della Porta,Herbert Reiter Pdf

The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. In contemporary democracies, police departments have two different, often conflicting aims: keeping the peace and defending citizens' right to protest. This collection, the only resource to examine police interventions cross-nationally, analyzes a wide array of policing styles. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, the contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods and the consequences of policing protest.