"Calling All Cars" shows how radio played a key role in an emerging
form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression.
Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as
hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude and were
ultimately successful in making heroes out of law enforcement
officers. Through close analysis of radio programming of the era
and the production of true crime docudramas, Kathleen Battles
argues that radio was a significant site for overhauling the dismal
public image of policing. However, it was not simply the elevation
of the perception of police that was at stake. Using radio,
reformers sought to control the symbolic terrain through which
citizens encountered the police, and it became a medium to promote
a positive meaning and purpose for policing. For example, Battles
connects the apprehension of criminals by a dragnet with the idea
of using the radio network to both publicize this activity and make
it popular with citizens. The first book to systematically address
the development of crime dramas during the golden age of radio,
"Calling All Cars" explores an important irony: the intimacy of the
newest technology of the time helped create an intimate
authority--the police as the appropriate force for control--over
the citizenry.
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