Gotham's war within a war: policing and the birth of law-and-order liberalism in World War II-era New York City

"A surprising history unfolded in New Deal- and World War II-era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guard...

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