Police & the Empire City: race & the origins of modern policing in New York

"During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse city. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the hist...

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Main Author: Guariglia, Matthew (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
New York (N.Y.) > Police Department > History
Police > New York (State) > New York > History
Law Enforcement > New York (State) > New York > History
Racial profiling in law enforcement > New York (State) > New York > History
Discrimination in law enforcement > New York (State) > New York > History
POLICE brutality > New York (State) > New York > History
Police-community relations > New York (State) > New York > History
HISTORY / United States / General
Social Science / Criminology
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations > History
New York, NY > Polizei > Geschichte
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Summary:"During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse city. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia explores the New York City Police Department through its periods of experimentation and violence as police experts import tactics from the US occupation of the Philippines and Cuba, devise modern bureaucratic techniques to better suppress Black communities, and infiltrate supposedly-unknowable immigrant neighborhoods. Innovations ranging from recruiting Chinese, Italian, or German police to form "ethnic squads," the use of deportation and federal immigration restrictions to control local crime-even the introduction of fingerprinting-were motivated by attempts to govern a multiracial city. Campaigns to remake the police department created an urban landscape where power, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, crime, and bodies collided and provided a foundation for the supposedly "colorblind," technocratic, federally-backed, and surveillance-based policing of today"--
Physical Description:267 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478025405
9781478020622