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Black and Blue: the Politics of Policing at the 2004 Republican National Convention Protests
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With the increase in large contentious demonstrations in the last decade has come a variety of new efforts to explain the interactions of police and protestors. The �blue� approach claims that understanding the views and internal procedures of the police must be given primacy. The police have a high degree of bureaucratic autonomy in advanced democracies and make their own determinations about the nature of the threat posed by protest events. The �black� approach argues that the role of the state in repressing political threats is central to understanding these confrontations. Even in democratic settings, political leaders can exert considerable pressure on police in high stakes situations and in fact often have a shared outlook on political protest activity. Based on an analysis of how the New York Police Department (NYPD) handled six demonstrations at the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC). I argue that while each protest was dealt with in a unique way, a general pattern emerged in which the police used either the �soft hat� command and control model or the �hard hat� Miami model. The choice of which approach to use was based on three primary factors: 1) the posture that demonstrators took towards the police, 2) the internal organizational styles of policing used by the NYPD, and 3) the political environment in which the protest occurred. Building on Bourdieu�s concepts of �field� and �habitus� I argue that this three part framework shows that both internal dynamics within police departments as well as external political factors need to be considered. As a result, complaints by social movements and civil libertarians about repressive policing must target both the police and political officials.
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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: With the increase in large contentious demonstrations in the last decade has come a variety of new efforts to explain the interactions of police and protestors. The �blue� approach claims that understanding the views and internal procedures of the police must be given primacy. The police have a high degree of bureaucratic autonomy in advanced democracies and make their own determinations about the nature of the threat posed by protest events. The �black� approach argues that the role of the state in repressing political threats is central to understanding these confrontations. Even in democratic settings, political leaders can exert considerable pressure on police in high stakes situations and in fact often have a shared outlook on political protest activity. Based on an analysis of how the New York Police Department (NYPD) handled six demonstrations at the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC). I argue that while each protest was dealt with in a unique way, a general pattern emerged in which the police used either the �soft hat� command and control model or the �hard hat� Miami model. The choice of which approach to use was based on three primary factors: 1) the posture that demonstrators took towards the police, 2) the internal organizational styles of policing used by the NYPD, and 3) the political environment in which the protest occurred. Building on Bourdieu�s concepts of �field� and �habitus� I argue that this three part framework shows that both internal dynamics within police departments as well as external political factors need to be considered. As a result, complaints by social movements and civil libertarians about repressive policing must target both the police and political officials.

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