Police and the Empire City

Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York

Matthew Guariglia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

277 Seiten

2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2062-2 (ISBN)

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During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police Department 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 imported tactics from the US occupation of the Philippines and Cuba, devised modern bureaucratic techniques to better suppress Black communities, and infiltrated supposedly unknowable immigrant neighborhoods. Innovations ranging from recruiting Chinese, Italian, and German police to form “ethnic squads” to 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 color-blind, technocratic, federally backed, and surveillance-based policing of today.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	11 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2062-8 / 1478020628
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2062-2 / 9781478020622
Zustand	Neuware