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The rise of the Chicago Police Department: class and conflict, 1850-1894

By sam , Mitrani

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780252038068, 9780252095337, 0252095332
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3044184 bytes)
Series
Working class in American history
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\273
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Law enforcement;Law enforcement--Illinois--Chicago

Description

In this work, 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.

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