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Uncle Sam's Policemen - The Pursuit of Fugitives across Borders (Hardcover)
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Uncle Sam's Policemen - The Pursuit of Fugitives across Borders (Hardcover)
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Extraordinary rendition-the practice of abducting criminal suspects
in locations around the world-has been criticized as an
unprecedented expansion of U.S. police powers. But America's
aggressive pursuit of fugitives beyond its borders far predates the
global war on terror. Uncle Sam's Policemen investigates the
history of international manhunts, arguing that the extension of
U.S. law enforcement into foreign jurisdictions at the turn of the
twentieth century forms an important chapter in the story of
American empire. In the late 1800s, expanding networks of railroads
and steamships made it increasingly easy for criminals to evade
justice. Recognizing that domestic law and order depended on
projecting legal authority abroad, President Theodore Roosevelt
declared in 1903 that the United States would "leave no place on
earth" for criminals to hide. Charting the rapid growth of
extradition law, Katherine Unterman shows that the United States
had fifty-eight treaties with thirty-six nations by 1900-more than
any other country. American diplomats put pressure on countries
that served as extradition havens, particularly in Latin America,
and cloak-and-dagger tactics such as the kidnapping of fugitives by
Pinkerton detectives were fair game-a practice explicitly condoned
by the U.S. Supreme Court. The most wanted fugitives of this period
were not anarchists and political agitators but embezzlers and
defrauders-criminals who threatened the emerging corporate
capitalist order. By the early twentieth century, the long arm of
American law stretched around the globe, creating an informal
empire that complemented both military and economic might.
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