The first study to compare police violence in the United States with that in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drawing on years of field research, Paul Chevigny investigates torture and the use of deadly force, in addition to less drastic forms of violence, in a broundbreaking examination of police brutality in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Kingston, Jamaica.

The country's leading expert examines police brutality in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Kingston, Jamaica.