Policing The Southern City

Author : Dennis Charles Rousey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0807120464

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Policing the Southern City by Dennis Charles Rousey Pdf

In this first book-length study of the police in a nineteenth-century southern city, Dennis C. Rousey demonstrates that the distinction of introducing the first major reform of the traditional colonial police system belongs not to any of the large northeastern cities in the mid-1800s, as is generally understood, but to Deep South cities of a much earlier period. As early as the late 1700s, Rousey argues, southern cities, including New Orleans, developed military-style municipal police forces to deal with their large concentrations of slaves, making the southern concept of the role of police markedly different from that of the North, whose forces at the time consisted mainly of unarmed constables and night watchmen. Rousey's examination reveals a great deal about the city itself - its complex ethnic and racial traditions, its fluctuating economy, its politics, and its judicial organization and standards. A wealth of comparative data from Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile places the New Orleans police force within the context of law enforcement systems of this period this period throughout the Deep South.

Author : Steven Elliot Tripp
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814782378

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Yankee Town, Southern City by Steven Elliot Tripp Pdf

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order? Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping events--Secession, Civil War, Black Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By looking at life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.

Author : Scott Memmel
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826275011

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Pressing the Police and Policing the Press by Scott Memmel Pdf

In the second half of 2020 and continuing into 2021, protests against racial injustice spread across the United States after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis Police Department officers. Members of the press covered these demonstrations, documenting what transpired and conveying the important messages involved. In so doing, the news media held law enforcement accountable through critical reporting on the actions of the police, with police officers responding in part by intimidating journalists in the field using force and arrest—this in the name of keeping the peace and protecting the public from further harm. What transpired during this troubled time cast a bright light on the contemporary relationship between the press and police in the United States. The relationship between these two fundamental institutions is, however, a long and complicated one, dating back to colonial British North America. In the mid-19th century, (1830s–1850s) both the press and the police began to take their modern forms, and since then have continued to develop, routinely interacting with each other as journalists and police officers often found themselves responding to the same crimes and events. At times, members of both institutions managed to co-exist or even cooperate and made efforts to help one another, while at other times they butted heads to the point of conflict, the professional boundaries between journalists and police officers seemingly blurred. As both the press and the police have fallen under deep scrutiny in more modern times, the present moment marks what is, perhaps, an opportune time to focus on the political, economic, social, and technological problems they face. In “Pressing the Police and Policing the Press,” Scott Memmel offers the first book-length study of the history and legal landscape of the press-police relationship. Each chapter focuses on interactions between the press and the police during a particular era, introducing relevant societal context and how both institutions evolved and responded to that context. Memmel concludes his study with recommendations on how, going forward, the press and the police might work together to tackle some of the similar issues they face and better serve the public.

Author : Dennis J. Stevens
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781284110111

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An Introduction to American Policing by Dennis J. Stevens Pdf

"An Introduction to American Policing, Second Edition" connects the US criminal justice system, criminology, and law enforcement knowledge to the progress of the police community. It is the perfect resource for a Police Science course.

Author : Adam H. Domby,Simon Lewis
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823298174

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Freedoms Gained and Lost by Adam H. Domby,Simon Lewis Pdf

Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these struggles took varied enormously, extended geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influenced political and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation even today. The fight to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms for America’s Black population led to the apparently concrete and permanent legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the revised state constitutions, but almost all of the latter were overturned by the end of the century, and even the former are not necessarily out of jeopardy. And it was not just the formerly enslaved who were gaining and losing freedoms. Struggles over freedom, citizenship, and rights can be seen in a variety of venues. At times, gaining one freedom might endanger another. How we remember Reconstruction and what we do with that memory continues to influence politics, especially the politics of race, in the contemporary United States. Offering analysis of educational and professional expansion, legal history, armed resistance, the fate of Black soldiers, international diplomacy post-1865 and much more, the essays collected here draw attention to some of the vital achievements of the Reconstruction period while reminding us that freedoms can be won, but they can also be lost.

Author : Dwight Watson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603446198

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Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990 by Dwight Watson Pdf

Examines the racial history of the Houston Police Department, drawing on police records and contemporary accounts to look at how Houston, and other police departments, responded to social, political, and institutional change from 1930 to 1990.

Author : Kristian Williams
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849352154

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Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams Pdf

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.

Author : John Bardes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469678191

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The Carceral City by John Bardes Pdf

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders were deeply reliant on coercive state action. Authorities built massive slave prisons and devised specialized slave penal systems to maintain control and maximize profit. Indeed, in New Orleans—for most of the past half-century, the city with the highest incarceration rate in the United States—enslaved people were jailed at higher rates during the antebellum era than are Black residents today. Moreover, some slave prisons remained in use well after Emancipation: in these forgotten institutions lie the hidden origins of state violence under Jim Crow. With powerful and evocative prose, Bardes boldly reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history. Racialized policing and mass incarceration are among the gravest moral crises of our age, but they are not new: slavery, the prison, and race are deeply interwoven into the history of American governance.

Author : Viola Franziska Müller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469671079

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Escape to the City by Viola Franziska Müller Pdf

Viola Franziska Muller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Muller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192583055

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A Short History of Police and Policing by Clive Emsley Pdf

The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of 'policing' that existed in the past. It examines the historical development of the various bodies, individuals, and officials who carried these out in different societies, in Europe and European colonies, but also with reference to countries such as ancient Egypt, China, and the USA. By demonstrating that policing was never the exclusive dominion of the police, and that the institution of the police, as we know it today, is a relatively recent creation, Professor Emsley explores the idea and reality of policing, and shows how an institution we now call 'the police' came to be virtually universal in our modern world.

Author : Jay R. Williams,Lawrence J. Redlinger,Peter K. Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : PURD:32754075292106

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Police Narcotics Control by Jay R. Williams,Lawrence J. Redlinger,Peter K. Manning Pdf

Author : Baltimore (Md.) POLICE DEPT.,Baltimore (Md.). Police Commissioner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Police
ISBN : UIUC:30112062054843

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Report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore to His Excellency the Governor of Maryland, for the Year .. by Baltimore (Md.) POLICE DEPT.,Baltimore (Md.). Police Commissioner Pdf

Author : Ben Jones,Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479803729

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The Ethics of Policing by Ben Jones,Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice system From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement have brought race and policing to the forefront of national debate in the United States. In The Ethics of Policing, Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars across the social sciences and humanities to reevaluate the role of the police and the ethical principles that guide their work. With contributors such as Tracey Meares, Michael Walzer, and Franklin Zimring, this volume covers timely topics including race and policing, the use of aggressive tactics and deadly force, police abolitionism, and the use of new technologies like drones, body cameras, and predictive analytics, providing different perspectives on the past, present, and future of policing, with particular attention to discriminatory practices that have historically targeted Black and Brown communities. This volume offers cutting-edge insight into the ethical challenges facing the police and the institutions that oversee them. As high-profile cases of police brutality spark protests around the country, The Ethics of Policing raises questions about the proper role of law enforcement in a democratic society.

Author : Donald G. Nieman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0815314493

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Black Southerners and the Law, 1865-1900 by Donald G. Nieman Pdf

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135604660

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Institutional Life by Neil L. Shumsky Pdf

First Published in 1996. Volume 8 in the 8-volume series titled American Cities: A Collection of Essays. This series brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 8 discusses several institutions that are uniquely urban: voluntary associations, vigilance committees, and organized police forces. These articles attempt to consider race and ethnicity class, gender, and the various experiences of different groups of Americans.