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100			_aWiggins, Danielle _956376
245			_aOrder as well as Decency: _bDevelopment of Order Maintenance Policing in Black Atlanta/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol 46, Issue 4, 2020 ( 711–727 p.).
520			_aIn 1971, Ebony magazine named Atlanta the country’s “new Black Mecca,” citing its black political and economic leadership as well as the success of black businesses in the city. At this same time, however, Atlanta, like cities around the country, experienced rising crime rates and economic decline in its urban core. This article examines how Atlanta’s black political leaders, supported by both white and black business owners, responded to the crime crisis by privileging the preservation of order and the protection of capital in their public safety policies. It suggests that this commitment to orderliness, often overlooked in examinations of black political culture, undergirded black political leaders’ advocacy of punitive crime control procedures in the postcivil rights era. Analyzing how black political officials and property owners advocated for intensified foot patrol policing and public decency legislation, this article argues that the city’s black political class were early theorizers and codifiers of order maintenance, or “broken windows,” or still “quality-of-life” policing. Consequently, black business owners and municipal officials sanctioned the expansion of police power in low-income urban neighborhoods in the postcivil rights era.
773	0		_09176 _916956 _dThousand Oaks Sage Publications _tJournal of urban history _x00961442
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218822805
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