Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870

McHale, Vincent E.; Miller, Wilbur R.

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“…Identification and authorization were thus in full display: In both cities, policing the problems that followed from modernization required effective weaponry, robust legal authority, and expanded jurisdiction that the police had lacked in earlier years. Although the reports show that both sets of antagonisms prevailed in both cities, nonetheless their emphases diverged in ways that corroborate histories of policing in Chicago and New York (Balto, 2019; Dale, 2022; Guariglia, 2019; Miller, 1999; Mitrani, 2013).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Meanwhile, in both cities raged bitter strikes, bloody counter‐clashes, devastating fires, financial crises, housing shortages, and they did so in the shadow of Prohibition, one deadly global pandemic, countless wars, and more. The CPD and NYPD were thus called on to impose order during a historical period characterized by massive unrest (Monkkonen, 1981; for Chicago, see Mitrani, 2013; for New York, see Miller, 1999; Richardson, 1970).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…New York's police department likewise originated in law earlier than in fact. The Municipal Police Act passed in 1844 codified a watch system that proved unable to quell violent disorders until the NYPD was established at the New York City Council's request the next year (Miller, 1999; Richardson, 1970). The institutional uncertainty that overshadowed both departments’ genesis endured for decades: Shortly before the Civil War, both departments had imperfectly resolved jurisdictional disputes between rivalrous law enforcement agencies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The second set of insights is methodological and follows from the first. Police history's rich criminological heritage rarely yokes the strengths of comparative methods (for notable exceptions, see Bayley, 1990; Churchill, 2017; Emsley, 2000; Mawby, 1990; Miller, 1999). That rarity weakens criminologists’ grasp of how similarly situated police departments differ in their interpretations of how to confront similar problems.…”

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Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923

Koehler

Cheng

2023

Criminology

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We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into question. By comparing annual reports that the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department published from 1877 to 1923, we observe two techniques in how the police enacted that settlement: identification of the problems that the police believed themselves uniquely well equipped to manage and authorization of the powers necessary to do so. Comparison of identification and authorization yields insights into the role that these police departments played in convergent and divergent constructions of disorder and, in turn, into Progressivism's varying effects in early urban policing.

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Section: Comparing Chicago and New Yorkmentioning

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Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923

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Cheng

2023

Criminology

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“…Durante o período entre 1650 e 1850, grande parte dos Estados europeus buscaram a formação de uma polícia moderna (MONET, 1986). foi instituída uma polícia em Londres (MONET, 1986), considerada a primeira polícia moderna estabelecida em um país representativo (MILLER, 1999). Após trinta anos, esse modelo londrino foi expandido para o resto do país (MONET, 1986).…”

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Análise Da Gestão Operacional Do Policiamento Preventivo De Uma Operação De Segurança Pública: O Estudo De Caso Da Operação Gávea Presente

ALBERTO ADREGA FONSECA

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This monograph presents an analysis of a public security operation involving proximity policing that operates in Rio de Janeiro in the neighborhoods of Gávea, Lagoa and Jardim Botânico. The main objective of this study is to help improve the population's safety and sense of protection by analyzing operation activities, identifying bottlenecks and proposing solutions. To support this study, the main policing strategies from the origins of the police to the present are presented in the theoretical framework. The characteristics of the operation are presented in the case studies. In the discussion of the results, the literature presented and demonstrated in practice in the operation is cited, as well as the problems, advantages and benefits of the strategies used are reported. Finally, proposals for solutions to the main challenges are presented. The most relevant improvement opportunities identified are: stabilizing the daily availability of public security agents through the use of civilian agents, and increasing clarity, control and transparency over the activities and performance of agents. Taking advantage of these opportunities has great potential to increase the quality of service provided to citizens and increase the quality of life in the neighborhoods studied.

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A History of Private Policing in the United States. By Wilbur R. Miller (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 248 pp., hardcover £85, ISBN 978-1-4725-3336-4)

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2019

The British Journal of Criminology

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Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870

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Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923

Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923

Análise Da Gestão Operacional Do Policiamento Preventivo De Uma Operação De Segurança Pública: O Estudo De Caso Da Operação Gávea Presente

A History of Private Policing in the United States. By Wilbur R. Miller (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 248 pp., hardcover £85, ISBN 978-1-4725-3336-4)

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