The Rise Of The Chicago Police Department

Author : Sam Mitrani
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095332
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Chicago Police Department written by Sam Mitrani and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it rooted in class tensions, and the city's lawmakers and business elite fostered the growth of a professional municipal police force to protect capitalism, its assets, and their own positions in society. Together with city policymakers, the business elite united behind an ideology of order that would simultaneously justify the police force's existence and dictate its functions. Tracing the Chicago police department's growth through events such as the 1855 Lager Beer riot, the Civil War, the May Day strikes, the 1877 railroad workers strike and riot, and the Haymarket violence in 1886, Mitrani demonstrates that this ideology of order both succeeded and failed in its aims. Recasting late nineteenth-century Chicago in terms of the struggle over order, this insightful history uncovers the modern police department's role in reconciling democracy with industrial capitalism.

Author : John Joseph Flinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Chicago Police written by John Joseph Flinn and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago (Ill.). Police Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the General Superintendent of Police of the City of Chicago, to the City Council written by Chicago (Ill.). Police Department and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Balto
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occupied Territory written by Simon Balto and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the city's political leadership and police department, who generally sympathized with white Chicagoans and viewed black migrants as a problem population. During Chicago's Red Summer riot, patterns of extraordinary brutality, negligence, and discriminatory policing emerged to shocking effect. Those patterns shifted in subsequent decades, but the overall realities of a racially discriminatory police system persisted. In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression. Balto demonstrates that punitive practices by and inadequate protection from the police were central to black Chicagoans' lives long before the late-century "wars" on crime and drugs. By exploring the deeper origins of this toxic system, Balto reveals how modern mass incarceration, built upon racialized police practices, emerged as a fully formed machine of profoundly antiblack subjugation.

Author : Wesley G. Skogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199889864
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police and Community in Chicago written by Wesley G. Skogan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can neighborhood problems be solved? In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest community policing initiative. Wesley G. Skogan here provides the first comprehensive evaluation of that citywide program, examining its impact on crime, neighborhood residents, and the police. Based on the results of a thirteen-year study, including interviews, citywide surveys, and sophisticated statistical analyses, Police and Community in Chicago reveals a city divided among African-Americans, Whites, and Latinos. By looking at the varying effects community policing had on each of these groups, Skogan provides a valuable analysis of what works and why. As the use of community policing increases and issues related to race and immigration become more pressing, Police and Community in Chicago will serve the needs of an increasing amount of students, scholars, and professionals interested in the most effective and harmonious means of keeping communities safe.

Author : Laurence Ralph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672980X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Torture Letters written by Laurence Ralph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.

Author : Thomas Joseph Jurkanin
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398076111
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago Police written by Thomas Joseph Jurkanin and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book also delves into how the Chicago Police Department battles gangs, guns, drugs, and murder; how Hillard exhibited leadership in good times and in bad times; how Hillard dealt with politicians, the community, cops on the street and the media; how the department handled difficult crimes and their investigations; and how Hillard led, what he learned in the process, and what he accomplished. The book also discusses contemporary police issues including police corruption and brutality, use of force by police, police pursuits, police shootings and deaths, community policing, police accountability, and the use of emerging technologies in the fight against crime."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John J. Flinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Chicago Police written by John J. Flinn and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Joseph Flinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Chicago Police written by John Joseph Flinn and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Joseph Flinn
Publisher : Beaufort Books
ISBN 13 : 9780405033698
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Chicago Police written by John Joseph Flinn and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces the inception of the Chicago police through the late 19th century. Discussions include a detailed account of the induction of a detective force and patrol service. This work was first published in 1887 and is an excellent source of material reflecting the history of the urban police department in general.