Guariglia Police and the Empire City

Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Matthew Guariglia traces the history the New York City Police Department between the 1840s and 1930s to show how race, immigration, and empire informed and explicitly shaped policing in New York.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guariglia, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Race, Legibility and Policing in the Unequal City
1. Becoming Blue: New York Police’s Earliest Encounters with Race and Ethnicity, 1845–1871 24
2. Racial Heirarchies of Crime and Policing: Bodies, Morals, and Gender in the NYPD, 1890–1897 44
3. Colonial Methods: Francis Vinton Greene’s Journey from Empire to Policing the Empire City 71
4. The Rise of Ethnic Policing: Warren Charles, Cornelius Willemse, and the German Squad 93
5. Policing the “Italian Problem”: Criminality, Racial Difference, and the NYPD Italian Squad, 1903–1909 107
6. “They Needed Me as Much as I Needed Them”: Black Patrolmen and Resistance to Police Brutality, 1900–1913 135
7. “Police are Raw Materials”: Training Bodies in the World War I Era 153
8. Global Knowledge/American Police: Information, International Collaboration, and the Rise of Technocratice “Color-Blind” Policing 176
Conclusion. Policing’s Small Toolbox and the Afterlives of Ethnic Policing 199
Acknowledgments 207
Notes 211
Bibliography 235
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Guariglia is Affiliated Scholar at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, Senior Policy Analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and coeditor of The Essential Kerner Commission Report.