Title Police and the Empire City : race and the origins of modern policing in New York / Matthew Guariglia

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations Contents Becoming blue : New York police's earliest encounters with race and ethnicity, 1845-1871 -- Racial hierarchies of crime and policing : bodies, morals, and gender in the NYPD from 1890 to 1897 -- Colonial methods : Francis Vinton Greene's journey from empire to policing the Empire City -- The rise of ethnic policing : Warren Charles, Cornelius Willemse, and the German Squad -- Policing the "Italian problem" : criminality, racial difference, and the NYPD Italian Squad, 1903-1909 -- "They needed me as much as I needed them" : Black patrolmen and resistance to police brutality, 1900-1913 -- "Police are raw materials" : training bodies in the World War I era -- Global knowledge/American police : information, international collaboration, and the rise of technocratic "colorblind" policing 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject New York (N.Y.). Police Department -- History SUBJECT New York (N.Y.). Police Department fast Subject 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 Discrimination in law enforcement Ethnic relations Law enforcement Police Police brutality Police-community relations Racial profiling in law enforcement SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- History Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2023003685 ISBN 1478027541 9781478027546

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