The Modern PoliceI. Urban Crisis

A. ViceB. Dangerous ClassesC. The Problem of Anonymity

II. Divided SocietyA. Moral ReformB. Mass PoliticsC. Early American Policing

III. The Birth of the Modern PoliceA. PrecursorsB. ReformsC. The Detective

IV. Myth and RealityA. TheoryB. PracticeC. Failings

Urban Order

• Prostitution, drinking, crime, squalor• Dangerous classes

Anonymous Society

• Market Revolution• Opportunities for crime

Barnum’s Museum, 1850

Divided Society

Moral reform

versus

Mass politics

Mob attacking abolitionist Lucretia Mott

Early American Policing

•Constable

•Night Watch

•Thief Taker

Precursors

• Sir Robert Peel

• London Metropolitan Police

• “Peelers,” “Bobbies”

Reform

• Scope

• Visibility

• Professionalism

New York City Metropolitan Police, 1860

The Principles of Detection

• Invisibility

• Profiling

• Science

Interior, Chief Detective Col. Baker’s office, Washington, DC, 1865

Prevention

Class Control

• Police as social workers

• Chicago Lager Beer riot, 1855

Police inspect lodging house, 1872

Brutality

• Sweat Box

• Third Degree– Sap

“Clubber” Williams

Political Police

Mayor Fernando Wood