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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.
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.
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