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To Serve and Collect : Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, 1855-1960.
Crooked politicians, gangsters, madams, and cops on the take: To Serve and Collect tells the story of Chicago during its formative years through the history of its legendary police department.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Overview of Chicago Policing; 1. The Police and the Emerging City; 2. Ethnicity, Fraternal Orders, and the Police; Close Up on the Chicago Police: A Ride to Jail in the Patrol Wagon; 3. The Failures of Reform: Chicago under the Police Commission and Civil Service; 4. The Rule of the Club: Policing the Labor Strikes; Close Up on the Chicago Police: Fingerprints Doom a Murderer; 5. The Triangle and the Star: The Cronin Case; 6. Gambling and the Police.
- Close Up on the Chicago Police: The Armory Station
- Home to 100,000 Desperate Characters7. A Juicy Tenderloin: Politics and Graft in the South Side Levee; 8. The Triumph of Vice and Graft during the First Thompson Administration; 9. The Guns of Chicago: The Police, Prohibition, and the Crime Syndicate, 1921-31; Illustrations; Close Up on the Chicago Police Tommy O'Connor Breaks Out; 10. Pawns of the Machine: the Cermak-Kelly-Nash Years, 1933-47; Close Up on the Chicago Police: Confessions of a Vice Cop; 11. A System at Fault, 1947-60; Appendix I: Statistical Data, 1866-1960.
- Appendix II: Law Enforcement in Cook County, 1855-1960Notes on Sources; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.