Wildcat of the Streets reveals how the “community policing” approach of Mayor Coleman Young (1974–1993) transformed Detroit into a crucial site of experimentation in policing while continuing to subject many Black Detroiters, especially young people, to police brutality and repression.

A sweeping history of urban incarceration in Chicago and Cook County, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care.