"Protect and Serve Each Other": Contentious Politics and Collective Action in a Police Accountability Organization

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  • Kelsey Kisor Southwestern University

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https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v5i2.8268

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This rticle examines the tactics employed by the Peaceful Streets Project (PSP), a police accountability organization in Austin, Texas. Specifically, it explores the activists‘ reasons for addressing police accountability and why the majority of the members are men. Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and organizational materials, the findings suggest that collective action and contentious politics play roles in the activists‘ decisions to address police accountability and their measures for doing so. This study adds to the social movement literature by examining how collective action and contentious politics aid in the tactics for addressing police accountability and the racialized, classed, and gendered dynamics of member participation.

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