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Book Report of the Special Citizens Investigating Committee of the Commission Council of New Orleans

Download or read book Report of the Special Citizens Investigating Committee of the Commission Council of New Orleans written by New Orleans (La.). Commission Council. Special Citizens Investigating Committee and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bluecoated Terror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey S. Adler
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 0520385608
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Bluecoated Terror written by Jeffrey S. Adler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States. Too often, scholars and pundits argue either that police violence against African Americans has remained unchanged since the era of slavery or that it is a recent phenomenon and disconnected from the past. Neither view is accurate. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show, in narrative detail, how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans. Wide racial differentials in the use of lethal force and beatings during arrest and interrogation emerged in the 1930s and 1940s. Adler explains how race control and crime control blended and blurred during this era, when police officers and criminal justice officials began to justify systemic violence against Black people as a crucial--and legal--tool for maintaining law and order. Bluecoated Terror explores both the rise of these law-enforcement trends and their chilling resilience, providing critical context for recent horrific police abuses as the ghost of Jim Crow law enforcement continues to haunt the nation.

Book The Ballad of Robert Charles

Download or read book The Ballad of Robert Charles written by K. Stephen Prince and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two police officers and fled. During a manhunt that extended for days, violent white mobs roamed the city, assaulting African Americans and killing at least half a dozen. When authorities located Charles, he held off a crowd of thousands for hours before being shot to death. The notorious episode was reported nationwide; years later, fabled jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton recalled memorializing Charles in song. Yet today, Charles is almost entirely invisible in the traditional historical record. So who was Robert Charles, really? An outlaw? A black freedom fighter? And how can we reconstruct his story? In this fascinating work, K. Stephen Prince sheds fresh light on both the history of the Robert Charles riots and the practice of history-writing itself. He reveals evidence of intentional erasures, both in the ways the riot and its aftermath were chronicled and in the ways stories were silenced or purposefully obscured. But Prince also excavates long-hidden facts from the narratives passed down by white and black New Orleanians over more than a century. In so doing, he probes the possibilities and limitations of the historical imagination.

Book Black Rage in New Orleans

Download or read book Black Rage in New Orleans written by Leonard N. Moore and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Rage in New Orleans, Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. Moore explores a staggering array of NOPD abuses -- police homicides, sexual violence against women, racial profiling, and complicity in drug deals, prostitution rings, burglaries, protection schemes, and gun smuggling -- and the increasingly voceriferous calls for reform by the city's black community. The first book-length study of police brutality and African American protest in a major American city, Black Rage in New Orleans will prove essential for anyone interested in race relations in America's urban centers.

Book Murder in New Orleans

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  • Author : Jeffrey S. Adler
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-08-02
  • ISBN : 022664331X
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Murder in New Orleans written by Jeffrey S. Adler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city’s homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940—over two thousand in all—scouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contexts—legal, political, cultural, and demographic—and emerges with a tale of racism, urban violence, and vicious policing that has startling relevance for today. Murder in New Orleans shows that whites were convicted of homicide at far higher rates than blacks leading up to the mid-1920s. But by the end of the following decade, this pattern had reversed completely, despite an overall drop in municipal crime rates. The injustice of this sharp rise in arrests was compounded by increasingly brutal treatment of black subjects by the New Orleans police department. Adler explores other counterintuitive trends in violence, particularly how murder soared during the flush times of the Roaring Twenties, how it plummeted during the Great Depression, and how the vicious response to African American crime occurred even as such violence plunged in frequency—revealing that the city’s cycle of racial policing and punishment was connected less to actual patterns of wrongdoing than to the national enshrinement of Jim Crow. Rather than some hyperviolent outlier, this Louisiana city was a harbinger of the endemic racism at the center of today’s criminal justice state. Murder in New Orleans lays bare how decades-old crimes, and the racially motivated cruelty of the official response, have baleful resonance in the age of Black Lives Matter.

Book Gambling and Organized Crime  Parts 1  2  3  87 1

Download or read book Gambling and Organized Crime Parts 1 2 3 87 1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gambling and Organized Crime

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Gambling and Organized Crime written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gambling and Organized Crime

Download or read book Gambling and Organized Crime written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates organized crimes illegal gambling activity in dice games, card games, and horse racing. Includes discussion of the role of bookmakers and use of telephone equipment in their illegal gambling activities.

Book Louisiana Reports

Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eavesdroppers

Download or read book The Eavesdroppers written by Samuel Dash and published by New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gambling and Organized Crime

Download or read book Gambling and Organized Crime written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permament Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates organized crimes illegal gambling activity in dice games, card games, and horse racing. Includes discussion of the role of bookmakers and use of telephone equipment in their illegal gambling activities.

Book The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America

Download or read book The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America written by Thomas Aiello and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself. Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass protests that occurred as a result in 2020. However, the problem of police brutality has been consistent throughout American history. This volume traces its history back to Antebellum slavery, through the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the two world wars and the twentieth century, to the present day. This handbook is designed to create a generally holistic picture of the phenomenon of police brutality in the United States in all of its major lived forms and confronts a wide range of topics including: Race Ethnicity Gender Police reactions to protest movements (particularly as they relate to the counterculture and opposition to the Vietnam War) Legal and legislative outgrowths against police brutality The representations of police brutality in popular culture forms like film and music The role of technology in publicizing such abuses, and the protest movements mounted against it The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America will provide a vital reference work for students and scholars of American history, African American history, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, and Africana studies.

Book The Greatest Menace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lee Bernstein
  • Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Greatest Menace written by Lee Bernstein and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernstein (American studies, San Jose State U.) has done a terrific job of recreating in detail the events and instigators of a near-paranoid public attention to the Italian Mafia during the Cold War era. Among the topics are the televised hearings of Estes Kefauver's crime committee, the formation of local crime committees, the role of J. Edgar Hoover and others in fostering an atmosphere of ethnic discrimination and suspicion, the trials of Lucky Luciano, and the role of television shows like The Untouchables and Dragnet to reaffirm notions of civic obligations to fight crime. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Federal Effort Against Organized Crime  Role of the Private Sector

Download or read book Federal Effort Against Organized Crime Role of the Private Sector written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Investigation of Law Enforcement in Buffalo

Download or read book An Investigation of Law Enforcement in Buffalo written by New York (State). Temporary Commission of Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Investigation and Study of the Works Progress Administration

Download or read book Investigation and Study of the Works Progress Administration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: