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Book Review: Making News of Police Violence: A Comparative Study of Toronto and New York City

This book addresses the issue of public police violence and examines the political control of police violence in the cities of Toronto and New York. The book is based on an empirical study of citizens’, governmental and law enforcement practitioners’ reaction to the use of excessive force by the police. It is concerned with citizen perceptions of police violence and how media reporting shapes these. The author has developed an events data analysis methodology within a political process model. One consequence of excessive police violence has been that it acts a ‘flashpoint’ leading to rioting. The three days of rioting that followed the acquittal of five white Los Angeles Police Department officers for beating Rodney King an African American motorist resulted in 58 deaths, 2,383 injuries, 17,000 arrests and $785m in property damage. Police violence and its consequences is not a trivial matter. Ross developed a fourstage political process model based on a literature review and interviews with key actors. The model is then applied to police violence in the two cities over a 15-year period. The book has a simple structure with five chapters dealing with the issues of: