of course, account for the name 'mach<strong>in</strong>e.'" Edward C. Banfield <strong>and</strong> James Q. Wilson, City Politics(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press <strong>and</strong> the M.l.T. Press, 1963) . 115. Emphasis <strong>in</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al.4 Banfield <strong>and</strong> Wilson, City Politics, 125.5 Banfield <strong>and</strong> Wilson, City Politics, 116.6 Fogelson, Big-City <strong>Police</strong>, 30.7 Raymond B. Fosdick, AmeriCfln <strong>Police</strong> Systems (New York: The Century Company, 1920),273-74.8 James F. Richardson, The New Yo rk <strong>Police</strong>: Colonial Times to 1901 (New Yo rk: Oxford UniversityPress, 1970), 175-176.9 James F. Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong> <strong>in</strong> the United States (Port Wash<strong>in</strong>gron, NY: National UniversityPress, 1974), 48.10 Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong>, 57-58.11 Richardson, Urban I'olice, 63.12 Fosdick, <strong>America</strong>n <strong>Police</strong> Systems. 101-102 <strong>and</strong> 105.13 Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong>, 58-59; Fosdick, <strong>America</strong>n <strong>Police</strong> Systems, 69-70.14 Richardson, New York <strong>Police</strong>, 228-229.15 Quoted <strong>in</strong> Richardson, New York <strong>Police</strong>, 230.16 Richardson, New York <strong>Police</strong>, 229.17 Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong>, 36.18 Roger Lane, Polic<strong>in</strong>g the City: Boston 1822-1885 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1967), 15-17.19 Lane, Polic<strong>in</strong>g the City, 60,20 Lane, Polic<strong>in</strong>g the City, 77-80,21 Quoted <strong>in</strong> Lane, Polic<strong>in</strong>g the City, 80.22 Fogelson, Big-City I'olice, 18-21.23 Fogelson, Big-City <strong>Police</strong>, 32.24 Richardson, New York <strong>Police</strong>, 182.25 Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong>, 56.26 Quoted <strong>in</strong> 'Xfillialll McAdoo, Guard<strong>in</strong>g (/ Great City (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906), 86.27 Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong>, 32-33.28 Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong>, 33-34.29 Richardson. New Yo rk <strong>Police</strong>, 189.30 Charles Tilly, "War Mak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> State Mak<strong>in</strong>g as Organized Crime," <strong>in</strong> Br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g the State Back,Peter B. Evans et al (Cambridge; Camhridge University Press, 1994), 170-171.31 What is property? Proudhon asked. And his answer, somewhat paradoxically: Property is theft.What is government? we ask ourselves now. And aga<strong>in</strong> a paradox comes <strong>in</strong> reply: Governmentis crime. For more of his Llmous argument, see Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property? (NewYo rk; H. Fertig, 1966).32 Tilly, "War Mak<strong>in</strong>g," 172.33 Tilly, "War Mak<strong>in</strong>g," 181.34 Ibid.35 Allen Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, The Transformation o/ Crim<strong>in</strong>a/justice: Phi/adelphid, 1800--1880 (Chapel Hill:University of North Carol<strong>in</strong>a Press, 1989), 137.36 Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Transformation o/ Crim<strong>in</strong>al justice, 136.37 Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Transformation 0/ Crim<strong>in</strong>al justice, 136.38 Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Transformation o/ Crim<strong>in</strong>aljustice, 145-146.39 Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Transformation 0/ Crim<strong>in</strong>al justice, 148-149.40 Quoted <strong>in</strong> Ste<strong>in</strong>berg. Transformation o/ Crimirlill /ustice, 149.41 Quoted <strong>in</strong> Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Transformation 0/ Crim<strong>in</strong>al justice, 151.42 Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, TransformatiDn 0/ Crim<strong>in</strong>al justice, 151.43 Richardson, Urban <strong>Police</strong>, 25.44 Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Transformation o/ Crim<strong>in</strong>aljustice, 166.45 "On the whole consolidation was, <strong>in</strong> many ways, illusory. Its success depended <strong>in</strong> large part onthe acquiescence of the same politicians whose activities it had been designed to controL ... Theprocedures of ward politics <strong>in</strong>tensified with the rise of a citywide political mach<strong>in</strong>e. As a result, thepolice hecame closely tied to both the exist<strong>in</strong>g structllre of primary justice <strong>and</strong> the new structure ofurhan politics." Ste<strong>in</strong>berg, Tiwlsformation o/ Crim<strong>in</strong>aljustice, 171.46 Tilly, "War Mak<strong>in</strong>g," 174-175.47 Tilly, "War Mak<strong>in</strong>g," 174. This was not the only path to state-formation, nor does Tilly pretend thatit was. See also: Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capita!, <strong>and</strong> European States, AD 990--1990 (Cambridge,t-..1A: Basil Blackwell, 1990). But neither was the Tudor experience unique. Between 1620 <strong>and</strong> 1680the French state developed along similar l<strong>in</strong>es, beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g with Richelieu. Tilly. "War Mak<strong>in</strong>g," 174.48 The classic political mach<strong>in</strong>es were wither<strong>in</strong>g by the middle of the twentieth century, with251
252Chicago offer<strong>in</strong>g one of the few examples to survive <strong>in</strong>to the 1960s. But even without the mach<strong>in</strong>es,corruption cont<strong>in</strong>ued to be a pervasive fe ature of police departments across the country.Fogelson, Rig- Cit), Po /ice, 1 (,7-168 <strong>and</strong> 172. William Chambliss ,,,"scribes his f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs: "Inmy rescnch on organized criml' <strong>in</strong> Sl'1tdc, Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, I discovered a symbiu[ic rebtiollshipbetween organized crime <strong>and</strong> the police that made it impossible to differentiate between them.Law enforcement officers, from street patrolmen to police chiefs to members of the prosecllt<strong>in</strong>gattoflley" office, not only accepted payotfs frolll people who organized illegal gambl<strong>in</strong>g, prostitution,<strong>and</strong> drug sales, but the police <strong>and</strong> prosecutors were <strong>in</strong>strumental <strong>in</strong> organiz<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> manag<strong>in</strong>gthese activities. Scat tie is not the exception, it is the rule." William J. Chamhliss, <strong>Power</strong>,/'u/itics, rlnr! Crime (Boulder, co: Westview Press, 1999), 1.)6. The mid- <strong>and</strong> Iate- 1990s saw awave of corruption sc<strong>and</strong>als, most notably <strong>in</strong> Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, <strong>and</strong>New Orleans-but also <strong>in</strong> smaller cities like Rochester <strong>and</strong> Clevel<strong>and</strong>. Ofllcers were convictedof charges rdat<strong>in</strong>g 10 hrutality, theft, plant<strong>in</strong>g evidence, drug traHlck<strong>in</strong>g, extortion, <strong>and</strong> murder.ec, t'H example: Amnesty Imcrnational USA, Vll itcd Stllics o/Alllait/l: Rig/w jil ( All (New Yo rk:Amnesty International. 1998), 2:l; Human Rights Watch, Shielrlcd from Justire: Polire Bruta/ityf<strong>in</strong>d Acc(llItI"dJilit)' ill the Unital Stiltes (New York: Hum,lI1 Righb \Vatch, 1 ')')R). 36, 164-165,2'i9-260; <strong>and</strong> Chamhliss, i'll/Ocr. Po/itics, l<strong>in</strong>d Crime, U6-.l7.49 Philadelphia t'lilowed the same path as London, where "<strong>in</strong> 1829 ... local ofIicials helped transferpower to the centre, hecom<strong>in</strong>g consumers of a government service <strong>in</strong>stead of providers." Ela<strong>in</strong>eA. Reynolds, Bej())'{' II,I' Bobhies: n){, Night 1X'litch fllld Polire /?,form ill Jl1etro/,ulittlr/ Londo ll,1720-1830 (Stanf(Hd, CA: Stant(lfJ University Press, 1 ')98), 6.')0 "Because the police organization's structure cast its net over the whole city, an un<strong>in</strong>tended consequenceor the adaptation of t he semi-military model or cornmunicarion meant char the policeended up with access to <strong>and</strong> coord<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g power over the city's daily operations not achieveduntil the twentieth century hy other parts of the city government." Eric H. Monkkonen, j'o/iceill Urhiln /lit/trim, lR60- 1 920 (Cambridge: Camhridge University Press, 1 ')8 1 ) , 15')- 1 (;0.51 Reynolds, l!tjiirf the Bobbies, 21-22.52 Quoted <strong>in</strong> Selden Daskan Bacon, "The Early Development of rhe <strong>America</strong>n Municipal Po lice: ASmdy of the Evolution of formal Controls <strong>in</strong> a Clung<strong>in</strong>g Society, vol. 2." (PhD diss., Yale University,193
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