Cop City Swagger - by Mercedes Eng (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A finalist for the 2025 Vancouver Book Award!

Investigating whose safety really matters in the most expensive city in the nation, cop city swagger conducts a threat assessment of Vancouver's police. Holding close lived and living connections to the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown neighbourhoods, Eng juxtaposes the police's and the city's institutional rhetoric with their acts of violence against marginalized people, presenting a panoramic media montage of structural harm and community care.

Review Quotes

"Powerful and convincing." --Clint Burnham, Some magazine

"Enraging and clarifying in equal measure. I am holding it close as a text to help me make sense of the wild present we are moving through--a possible map to all the love for the world that surges up after an unwavering refusal of the police." --Emily Guerrero, C Magazine