6. Prioritization of Life as a Guiding Principle for Police Use of Deadly Force

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Police Ethics after Ferguson 1
4. Part I. The Role of Police
5. 1. Clashing Narratives of Policing? 25
6. 2. Legitimate Policing and Professional Norms 39
7. 3. Reward and “Real” Police Work 66
8. Part II. Use of Force
9. 4. Soldiers and Police 93
10. 5. When Police Do Not Need to Kill 107
11. 6. Prioritization of Life as a Guiding Principle for Police Use of Deadly Force 120
12. Part III. Race, Bias, and Resistance
13. 7. Policing Narratives in the Black Counterpublic 149
14. 8. Police Ethics through Presidential Politics and Abolitionist Struggle 179
15. Part IV. Policing’s Past and Future
16. 9. Police and Slave Patrols 205
17. 10. From Protection to Predation 222
18. 11. Police, Drones, and the Politics of Perception 248
19. 12. Predictive Policing and the Ethics of Preemption 268
20. Acknowledgments 293
21. About the Editors 295
22. About the Contributors 297
23. Index 301