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In the postwar years, after excluding women, African Americans,
Latinos, and other minorities from its ranks for most of its
history, the New York City Police Department undertook an
aggressive campaign of integration. This exhaustively researched
study provides the first comprehensive account of how and why the
NYPD came to see integration as a potent political tool,
indispensable to policing. At the same time, it shows how white
male rank-and-file cops at the same time came under siege from an
increasingly controlling management and critical public. The
Policemen's Benevolent Association advocated for higher wages,
better working conditions, and more control over policing practices
while simultaneously fighting to turn back the tide of integration.
Out of a complex and multifaceted story, author Andrew Darien
presents here a nuanced but accessible narrative of civil rights in
the largest municipal police force in the United States - one that
is more relevant than ever as Americans continue to struggle with
the fraught interrelationships of race, gender, and policing.
After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most
of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an
aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is
the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see
integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to
policing.
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