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In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Drawn from King's intensive field work, the book focuses on the physical, legal, political, and ideological dimensions of repression-in the streets, in courtrooms, in the media, in city hall, and within the movement itself-When Riot Cops Are Not Enough highlights the central role of political legitimacy, both for mass movements seeking to create social change, as well as for governmental forces seeking to control such movements. Although Occupy Oakland was different from other Occupy sites in many respects, King shows how the contradictions it illuminated within both social movement and police strategies provide deep insights into the nature of protest policing generally, and a clear map to understanding the full range of social control techniques used in North America in the twenty-first century.

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By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal. --George Ciccariello-Maher author of We Created Chavez, Building the Commune, and Decolonizing Dialectics

By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal. --George Ciccariello-Maher author of We Created Chavez

Vital, important and compelling, Mike King offers a nuanced accounting of the cat-and-mouse game of social protest and social control. Grounded in the experience of <i>Occupy Oakland, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough</i> is immensely relevant to the upcoming generation of militant activists, engaged scholars and community police. --Micah White author of The End of Protest

Clear, concise, and compelling, <i>When Riot Cops Are Not Enough</i> is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research. --Patrick Gillham department of sociology, Western Washington University

Clear, concise, and compelling, <i>When Riot Cops Are Not Enough</i>is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research. --Patrick Gillham Department of Sociology, Western Washington University

Clear, concise, and compelling, <i>When Riot Cops Are Not Enough</i>is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research. --Patrick Gillham department of sociology, Western Washington University

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MIKE KING is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.  

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