“It all started with Eddie”: Thanatopolitics, police power, and the murder of Edward Byrne

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Turner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
York City ◽  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Sovereign Authority ◽  
City Police

On February 26, 1988, rookie New York City police officer Edward Byrne was shot dead while guarding a material witness in a drug trafficking case in South Jamaica, Queens. This article considers how state narratives and visual rhetoric emerging from Byrne’s murder emboldened the police power and a revanchist campaign aimed at “taking back the streets” secreted under the war on drugs. As such, this case powerfully illustrates a disparate politics of death and the ways that the state enlists thanatopolitical power in order to reaffirm and reproduce its sovereign authority. Such a reproduction or reanimation of power registers as the state’s ability to unleash violence unequivocally and unequally upon poor and marginalized communities, as later demonstrated by the legal and proper police murder of Sean Bell, a resident of South Jamaica, Queens killed by NYPD agents in 2006.

Varieties of Drug Trafficking Organizations: A Typology of Cases Prosecuted in New York City

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mangai Natarajan ◽  
Mathieu Belanger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
York City ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Drug Trafficking Organizations

This paper examines a sample of 39 drug trafficking organizations prosecuted in New York City federal courts. Using a new two-dimensional typology based on organizational structure and tasks/roles, a considerable variety of organizational types was found. This result has important implications for future research. In particular it suggests the need for caution in generalizing from the findings of single case studies. These studies need to be located in the broader framework provided by the typology. The typology also permits the systematic sampling of trafficking organizations for detailed study. This is particularly important for policy since interventions must be closely tailored to the nature of criminal enterprises.

Abstract 3750: Prevalence of Coronary Artery Disease in New York City Police Officers as Predicted by Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring

Circulation ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 116 (suppl_16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Lin See ◽  
Nikolas Wanahita ◽  
Nir N Somekh ◽  
Stephen E Nelson ◽  
Albert Barrette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
York City ◽  
Early Exposure ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Artery Disease ◽  
City Police

Background: Recent studies in police officers and firefighters have shown that physically taxing and psychologically stressful occupations may increase death from coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to determine if there is an increased prevalence of CAD among members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Methods: A total of 2,068 NYPD police officers and detectives underwent electron beam computed tomography for quantitation of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using the Agatston scoring method. The CAC score is known to correlate with the extent and severity of CAD and is predictive of adverse cardiovascular events. The CAC scores were compared with a gender- and age-specific database developed by Hoff et al (also known as the Kondos database). Patients with CAC scores > 400 and those whose scores fall within the upper quartile for gender and age are generally considered to be at increased risk of adverse events. Results: Participants’ mean age was 42 ± 6 years and 86% were male. More than 50% of males < 65 and females < 60 years of age had scores below the 50 th percentile for their age group (Tables ). A subset of 75 individuals (mean age 41 ± 6; 88% male) with known early exposure to the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse were evaluated; they did not have increased CAC scores (data not shown). Conclusion: There is not an increased prevalence of CAD among members of the NYPD compared to the general population as assessed with CAC quantitation. Early exposure to the WTC collapse does not appear to increase the risk of premature CAD at five years.

Parenting the Dispossessed

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Haldipur
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
High Crime ◽  
Police Activity ◽  
City Police

In the early 2000s, the New York City Police Department implemented policies that called for the aggressive use of “Stop, Question, and Frisk,” in neighborhoods deemed “high crime.” Drawing from approximately 3 years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around three precincts in the southwest Bronx, the current research reveals how parenting youth who live in such neighborhoods is impacted by police activity.

Compstat: The Manager's Perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennaro F. Vito ◽  
William F. Walsh ◽  
Julie Kunselman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
York City ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Written Comments ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University ◽  
City Police

Originally established by Commissioner William Bratton and his colleagues in the New York City Police Department, Compstat has emerged as a new organisational paradigm in policing. This paper presents data drawn from the written views of police managers from across the USA. The respondents were attending the Administrative Officer's Course at the Southern Police Institute of the University of Louisville, Kentucky. During the course of their studies, they read several works on Compstat, including Silverman's (1999) work, NYPD Battles Crime. Content analysis of their written comments reveals the strengths and weaknesses that they associate with the Compstat model.

Evaluation of the New York City Police Department Firearm Training and Firearm-Discharge Review Process

10.7249/mg717 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Rostker ◽  
Lawrence Hanser ◽  
William Hix ◽  
Carl Jensen ◽  
Andrew Morral ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Firearm Training ◽  
City Police
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