Bloody Bay

Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Darren A. Raspa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2020
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1753-0 (ISBN)

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Bloody Bay recounts the gritty history of law enforcement in San Francisco. Beginning just before the California gold rush and through the six decades leading up to the twentieth century, a culture of popular justice and grassroots community peacekeeping was fostered. This policing environment was forged in the hinterland mining camps of the 1840s, molded in the 1851 and 1856 civilian vigilante policing movements, refined in the 1877 joint police and civilian Committee of Safety, and perfected by the Chinatown Squad experiment of the late nineteenth century.

From the American takeover of California in 1846 during the U.S.–Mexico War to Police Commissioner Jesse B. Cook’s nationwide law enforcement advisory tour in 1912 and San Francisco’s debut as the jewel of a new American Pacific world during the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915, San Francisco’s culture of popular justice, its multiethnic environment, and the unique relationships built between informal and formal policing created a more progressive policing environment than anywhere else in the nation. Originally an isolated gold rush boomtown on the margins of a young nation, San Francisco-as illustrated in this untold story-rose to become a model for modern community policing and police professionalism.

Darren A. Raspa is a Smithsonian National Museum of American History Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Immersion Scholar and an AFRL STEM program mentor at the University of New Mexico. He is also chief historian and director of the AFRL Phillips Research Site History Office in Albuquerque.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: City on Fire
1. Of Heroes and Hounds: The Chilean Origins of Policing in San Francisco, 1846–1849
2. “AdiÓs, Caballeros”: Multiethnic Vigilantism and Derecho Vulgar in the Hinterlands, 1848–1852
3. English Jim and the Rise of Grassroots Policeways, 1851
4. Vigilant City: Organizing Community Justice, 1856
Interlude: The Politics of Protecting Chinatown, 1856–1876
5. Pick-Handles on the Plaza, July 1877
6. King of Chinatown: Community Policing Alliance and Dissolution, 1877–1906
7. Tiger Eyes, the Jewel of the Pacific, and Reorienting the Policing Model, 1912
Conclusion: Chinese Playground
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	3 photographs, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-1753-5 / 1496217535
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-1753-0 / 9781496217530
Zustand	Neuware