The History of American Police

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0:00 Intro
3:11 (1600s-1877) Night Watchmen and Slave Patrols
9:19 (1829-1918) Early Modern Policing and the Labor Movement
19:12 (1899-1945) Early Militarization and Prohibition
30:00 (1940s-Early 1970s) The Red Scare and Civil Rights Movement
40:20 (1950s-1970s) Professionalism and Police Unionization
44:44 (1970s-Present) Further Militarization: The Wars on Drugs and Terror
52:41 Conclusion



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References:
Potter, Gary. The History of Policing in the United States. https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plson...
Go, Julian. The Imperial Origins of American Policing: Militarization and Imperial Feedback in the Early 20th Century. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...
Walker, Samuel. The Police in America: an Introduction.
Glaeser, Edward and Sacerdote, Bruce. Why is There More Crimes in Cities?Journal of Political Economy Vol. 107, No. S6
Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.
Hadden, Salley. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas.
ACLU. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Police.https://www.aclu.org/report/war-comes...
Balko, Radley. Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America.


Suggested Content:
YouTube:

Black History in Two Minutes. (The Civil Rights Movement:    • The Civil Rights Movement  )
Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39 (Civil Rights and the 1950s:    • Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Cou...  )
The Philippine Insurrection (1899-1913) and the word ‘Boondocks’ | War and Etymology:    • The Philippine Insurrection (1899-191...  

Podcasts:

Behind the Bastards (Phrenology: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-be...) (Behind the Police: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-be...)
Strange Fruit. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/44057731...



Music:
16 yr old x Eera - Clear Eyes
cameragrammar - netflix n chillwave
Dmitry Sinkovsky - Mystery Sonata (The Annunciation)
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) Mvmt 4
Byron Kingsley - Gangsta's Paradise (Sega Genesis Remix)
Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
nymano - i wish i could sleep
paulie - idw talk
Pete Seeger - Step by Step
Prohibition Blues
Machine Gaming - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name (SNES Remix)
Scott Joplin - The Entertainer
Mike Oldfield (Cover) - Tubular Bells
Vanilla - Time