Publications

Books

The End of Policing. New York and London: Verso. 2017.

City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New
York Politics. New York: New York University Press. 2008

Gaston Donate, Corey Robin, Roberta Satow, and Alex Vitale eds. People, Power, and Politics. New York: Pearson. 2002, 2010.

Book Chapters

"The Limits of Police Reform," in Walter S. DeKeseredy and Elliott Currie eds. Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression:Strategies for Challenging the Rise of the Right. New York: Routledge. 2019

Vitale, Alex S. and Brian Jordan Jefferson. “The Emergence of Command and Control Policing in Neoliberal New York.” In Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton eds. Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. New York: Verso. 2016.

"The Rise of Command and Control Protest Policing in New York City." in John Eterno and Eli Silverman eds. The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices. CRC Press. 2014.

"NYPD and OWS: A Clash of Styles" in Occupy!: Scenes
from Occupied America. New York: Verso Books. 2011.

“The Politics of Protest Policing.” In Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Action. Kathleen Korgen et.al. eds. Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press. 2010.

“Policing Protests in New York City” in Urbanization, Policing and Security: Global Perspectives. Gary Cordner, AnnMarie Cordner and
Dilip K. Das. Eds. New York: Taylor and Francis. 2009.

Articles

Chang, Paul Y. and Alex S. Vitale. "Repressive Coverage in an Authoritarian Context: Threat, Weakness and Legitimacy in South
Korea's Democracy Movement." Mobilization. March 2013.

A. Vitale, Kim, H., and Choi, N. "A Case Study on the Korean National Police's G20 Protest Policing," The Journal of Police Policies, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 27-53. December, 2011 (in Korean).

“The Safer Cities Initiative and the Removal of the Homeless: Reducing Crime or Promoting Gentrification on LA’s Skid Row?” Criminology and Public Policy. November 2010.

“The Command and Control and Miami Models at the 2004 Republican National Convention: New Forms of Policing Protests,” Mobilization.
12 (4) December, 2007.

“From Negotiated Management to Managed  Control: How the NYPD Polices Protests.” Policing and Society. September, 2005.

“Innovation and Institutionalization: Factors in the Development of ‘Quality of Life” Policing in New York City.” Policing and Society. June, 2005.

Sharon Zukin et al. “From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline,” Urban
Affairs Review. May 1998.

“Taming Urban Fear: The Politics of Community and Homelessness,” Found Object. Issue #7. Winter, 1998.

Reports

"Education Equity in New York: The Forgotten Dream." New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. February 2020.

"The Civil Rights Implications of "Broken Windows" Policing in NYC and General NYPD Accountability to the Public." New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. March 2018.

"The Solitary Confinement of Youth in New York: A Civil Rights Violation." New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. December 2014.

An Analysis of the Policing of the NATO Summit in Chicago, May 2012. August, 2012.

An Analysis of Protest Policing by the Korean National Police during the
G20 Summit in November 2010. January 2011.

Rights and Wrongs at the RNC: A Special Report about Police and Protest at the Republican National Convention.
New York Civil Liberties Union. August, 2005.

Arresting Protest: A Special Report of the New York Civil
Liberties Union. New York Civil Liberties Union. April, 2003

Essays, Op Eds, and Short Articles

"Houston Police Want to Target Gang Violence, It Won't Work." Houston Chronicle. January 29, 2019.

"The Criminalization of Youth." Jacobin. August 22, 2018.

"The New ‘Superpredator’ Myth." New York Times. March 23, 2018.

Do the math: More arrests will fill the jail, not close it. SF Examiner. February 24, 2018.

"Jail workers should get on the Rikers closure bandwagon: The old facility is awful for them, too." NY Daily News. Nov 2, 2017.

Abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Nation. October 20, 2017.

Police and the Liberal Fantasy. Jacobin. October 19, 2017.

"The Las Vegas Mass Shooting: Don't Call it Terrorism." The Indypendent. October 6, 2017.

"Trump Is Trying to Militarize the Police. It Won't Make Us Any Safer." Fortune Magazine. August 29, 2017.

"The Threat of Political Policing in the Trump Era." The Nation. May 17, 2017.

"A New Approach to Police Body Cameras." Gotham Gazette. May 4, 2017.

"The Myth of Liberal Policing."  The New Inquiry. April 5, 2017.

"Take steps to protect immigrants from Trump" AM New York. December 8, 2016.

"U.S. police could borrow from British efforts" Courier Journal. November 25, 2016

"Police not adequately trained on mental health: Column." USA Today. November 18, 2016

"Rudolph Giuliani Can’t Stand the Constitution." The Nation. November 17, 2016.

"Eleanor Bumpurs, Deborah Danner, and Finally Fixing Our Emergency Response." Gotham Gazette. October 20, 2016.

"Jail Abuse, Lawsuit Show Need to ‘Raise the Age’." Gotham Gazette. September 20, 2016.

"Giuliani’s Convention Speech Got Everything Wrong About Policing." The Nation. July 19, 2016.

"The Problem is Overpolicing." Truthout. July 9, 2016.

"Demanding Justice is Not a 'War on Cops'".Gotham Gazette. June 21, 2016.

"Could a Doorman Have Saved Akai Gurley’s Life?"Gotham Gazette. April 27, 2016.

"Assessing de Blasio: Policing." Indypendent, March 4, 2016.

"Criminal Justice Reform Act is No Alternative to Broken Windows Policing." Gotham Gazette. January 25, 2016.

"People v. NYPD: Lessons from New York City's Struggle for Less Police." The Abolitionist. Winter 2016.

"More Evidence Punitive NYPD Youth Programs Fail." Gotham Gazette. January 6, 2016.

"A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students." The Nation. October 28, 2015.

"Weed Is Basically Legal in New York City Now, but Only If You're White." Vice. October 23, 2015. (w Theodore Hamm).

"No, Protests Against Police Brutality Are Not Increasing Crime." The Nation. September 3, 2015.

"PBA Continues Misguided Resistance to Reform." Gotham Gazette. August 31, 2015.

"Why are New York cops shaming homeless people?" Al Jazeera America. August 16, 2015.

"Cuomo Should Properly Fund CUNY, Not Shift Burden to City."
Gotham Gazette. August 3, 2015.

"The Solution to Homelessness is Housing, Not Policing." Gotham Gazette. July 17, 2015.

"Two Very Different Ways to Punish Killer Cops" The Nation. May 5, 2015.

"At Last Night’s Solidarity March, the NYPD ‘Came Out Swinging.’" The Nation. April 30, 2015.

"Don’t count on Loretta Lynch to tame the police." Al Jazeera America. April 30, 2015.

"Community Leaders Do Work to Stop the Violence." Gotham Gazette. April 28, 2015.

"Time for City to Overhaul Drug Strategy" Gotham Gazette. April 17, 2015.

"DOJ report fails to address Ferguson’s major problems: Community policing reforms will not help communities of color." Al Jazeera America. March 12, 2015.

"Obama’s Police Reforms Ignore the Most Important Cause of Police Misconduct." The Nation. March 6, 2015.

"The Limits of Community Policing." Gotham Gazette. March 2, 2015.

"Changing the Role of Police." Clarion. January, 2015.

"What Does it Mean to be Anti-Police?" The Nation. December 23, 2014.

"What's the NYPD doing with an LRAD?" Gotham Gazette. December 18, 2014.

"We Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops. Here’s what we actually know about proposed police reforms." The Nation. December 4, 2014.

"Ferguson Cops Forcefully Mismanaged Protests; Other Cities Did Better." Dissent Newswire. November 28, 2014.

"Why police are rarely indicted for misconduct." Al Jazeera America. November 24, 2014.

"Report Shows Extent of Racialized Criminalization over last 30 years." Gotham Gazette. October 29, 2014.

"Board of Correction Urgently Needs Reform." Gotham Gazette. October 23, 2014.

"De Blasio's New Progressive Criminal Justice Initiatives Overshadowed by Prospect of More Police." Gotham Gazette. October 7, 2014.

"Suited for Subversion (Ralph Borland)" Design and Violence, Museum of Modern Art. October 1, 2014.

"NYPD Adopts Less Confrontational Posture at Climate Protests." Gotham Gazette. September 23, 2014.

"The Fight Against Pathways at CUNY" Academe. September/October 2014.

How to End Militarized Policing: We can undo the policies facilitating police violence in Ferguson. The Nation. August 18, 2014.

"The Neoconservative Roots of the Broken Windows Theory." Gotham Gazette. August 1, 2014.

"Paying in Blood for Over-policing: Broken Windows is the new Stop and Frisk." Daily News. July 18, 2014.

"What's So "Progressive" about 1000 New Police?" Gotham Gazette. May 22, 2014.

"Police Reforms Next Step." The Indypendent. February 25, 2014.

In the Wake of Sandy Hook, Who is Responsible For Making Us Safe? The Indypendent. December 26, 2012.

Botched Investigation in Queens Shows Need for Independent Police Prosecutor. The Indypendent. August 22, 2012.

"Riot Gear’s Evolution." New York Times. December 3, 2011. with Chi Birmingham.

"NYPD and OWS: A Clash of Styles" in Occupy!: An OWS Inspired Gazette. New York: N+1. no.2 November 2011.

"Disorderly Conduct? How Protesting Became a Crime in
NYC." WNET Metro Focus. October 26, 2011.

"Rule of Law Vs. The Forces of Order," Occupied Wall Street Journal. November 2, 2011.

"Direct Action Gets the Goods" Civic Institute [Instytut Obywatelski]. October 14, 2011. Warsaw, Poland. (in Polish)

“Three Strikes for Three Strikes.” 2002. Radical Society. No.2, November.

“Fighting Against the Rockefeller Drug Laws.” 2002. Left Turn.” No. 7, October/November.

“New York City” in Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. Ronald Gottesman, editor. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1999.

“Writing the Body Grotesque,” Culture Shock. Spring 1995.

“Fear of a Black Culture,” Culture Shock. Spring 1995.

“Homes Not Jails: The Thanksgiving Day Takeovers,” Z
Magazine. February 1993.

Book Reviews

"5 Books: Who Polices the Police?" The Nation. December 23, 2014.

Book Review: Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department. Contemporary Sociology. 43:5. September 2014. 701-702.

Book Review: "Urban Radicalism: A Review of Harvey's Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolutions." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 25:1. March 2014.

Book Review: Shut Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era – By Amory Starr, Luis Fernandez, and Christian Scholl. Working USA. 15:3, September 2012, 453-455.

Book Review: The Policing Web. By Jean-Paul Brodeur.
Social Forces. 90 (4). June 2012

Book Review: “Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement, by Luis Fernandez.”  Mobilization. 13:3 September, 2008. p. 339-340.

Book Review: “Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community, by Steve Herbert.” Police Practices and Research. 9:1, March 2008. p. 71-75.

Book Review: “Reclaiming the Streets: Surveillance, Social Control and the City, by Roy Coleman.”  Contemporary Sociology. 35:2, March, 2006. p. 179-181.

Documentaries

"The Morris Justice Project." Forthcoming 2015

"Black in America: Black & Blue." CNN. November 2014. (Consultant)

"Preemepting Dissent." DVD. 2013

"Some Assembly Required." The First Amendment Project. Court TV, The Sundance Channel, DVD. 2004.