...This chapter looks more deeply at the effects of police budget and other resource limitations to argue that many areas of policing fall short, even as protest control excels. It recounts frontline stories and interprets them with the intent of establishing a more complete picture of what policing...

...This chapter reviews police reports about capacity to respond to different types of crime, and in the process invokes a broader definition of coercive capacity. It emphasizes that discussions of coercive capacity typically focus on protest control and political policing, primarily because...