Dirty Work: Police and Community Relations and the Limits of Liberalism in Postwar Philadelphia
Dirty Work: Police and Community Relations and the Limits of Liberalism in Postwar Philadelphia
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肮脏的工作：战后费城的警察和社区关系以及自由主义的局限性
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2017
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T. Chronopoulos
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Eric Schneider;C. Agee;T. Chronopoulos
警察对非裔美国人的虐待是20世纪60年代城市起义的直接触发因素，平民对警察行为的审查成为民权自由主义的核心原则。费城警察顾问委员会（英语：Philadelphia's Police Advisory Board）（PAB）是美国第一个独立的民事审查委员会（英语：Civil Review Board）（1958），它未能改善警察与社区之间的紧张关系，这表明民权自由主义的局限性：无法面对警察作为“肮脏工人”的角色，他们在战后的城市中履行着未被承认但被广泛要求的维持种族等级制度的职能。非裔美国工人阶级是警察暴行的最常见受害者，他们开始将民事审查视为一种伪装，并拒绝了民权自由主义者的有限愿景。PAB的失败表明，如果没有更广泛的推翻种族等级制度的承诺，警察改革是不可能的。
Police abuse of African Americans was an immediate trigger for the urban uprisings of the 1960s, and civilian review of police actions became a central tenet of civil rights liberalism. The failure of Philadelphia’s Police Advisory Board (PAB), the nation’s first independent civilian review board (1958), to meliorate police–community tensions suggests the limitations of civil rights liberalism: an inability to confront the role of police as “dirty workers,” who performed the unacknowledged but widely demanded function of maintaining racial hierarchy in the postwar city. Working-class African Americans, the most frequent victims of police brutality, came to see civilian review as a charade and rejected the limited vision of civil rights liberals. The PAB’s failure shows that police reform is impossible without a broader commitment to overturning racial hierarchy.