Uniform Behavior

This book places in historical context the continuing push-pull dynamics between national politics and the entrenched tradition of local control over law enforcement in the U.S. Drawing on the present sense of urgency around the War on Terror and earlier national political initiatives that have sought to influence law enforcement at the local level, this multidisciplinary collection addresses key questions about how national and geopolitical developments come to shape local policing, and inform who decides how, and to what end, local police forces will maintain public order, interact with local communities, and address issues of accountability, oversight, and reform.

"An exciting collection...of insightful and innovative explorations into the broader history of policing in the U.S." - Petula Iu, Ph.D., Independent Scholar"Time out of mind, one of the hallmarks of American policing has been its localism; there are thousands of police departments, many of them very small. As thisfascinating book shows, after 9/11 police localism is fading. As the rhetoric of the war on crime is being pushed aside by the war on terror, federal policy is constantly intruding at the local level, often in ways that local police did not foresee and do notalways like. These essays also remind us that the intrusion is in fact not so new; it has been going on for decades in myriad ways we have forgotten or never noticed, and similar processes are at work in other countries." - Paul Chevigny, Professor of Law, New York University Law School"This timely collection is united by the theme of the complex interaction between traditionally local police forces and the initiatives, needs and requirements of national authorities. The essays carry us from the 'war on crime' to the 'war on terror.' It is an essential read for scholars interested in a fundamental, sometimes conflicted, evolution of police practices, goals, and responsibilities since the early twentieth century." - Wilbur Miller, Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Autorentext
Stacy K. McGoldrick is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal Poly Pomona. Andrea McArdle is Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law.

Inhalt
Introduction - Stacy K. McGoldrick The Militarization of American Policing: Enduring Metaphor for a Shifting Context - William T. Allison Arriving for immoral purposes: Women, Immigration, and the Historical Intersection of Federal and Municipal Policing - Val Marie Johnson For Speaking Jewish in a Jewish Neighborhood: Civil Rights and Community Police Relations During the Post-War Red Scare, 1919-1922 - Joseph J. Varga Challenging Police Repression: Federal Activism and Local Reform in New York City - Marilynn S. Johnson The Failure of Force: Policing Terrorism in Northern Ireland - Joanne Klein Democracy, Citizenship, and Police Procedure in New Orleans: The Importance of the Local Context for Defining Rights - Anthony Pereira Willie Horton to Osama Bin Laden: The New Framing of Police and Crime in the 2004 Presidential Campaign - Stacy K. McGoldrick Policing after September 11: Federal-Local Collaboration and the Implications for Police Community Relations - Andrea McArdle Transformation: The Emergent Growth of Cooperation Among Police Agencies - Peter K. Manning The Scales of Justice: Federal-Local Tensions in the War on Terror - Kris Erickson, John Carr, Steve Herbert