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Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
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Jeffrey S. Adler has produced as fine a quantitative study of urban life as can be imagined in Murder in New Orleans, which covers the period from 1920 to 1945. He was able to do this partly because of the thorough archives of police, court, and coroner records, supplemented by city directories, census schedules, newspapers, and other materials. These sources, and years of patient work, allowed Adler to assemble rich quantitative and qualitative data sets that provide the foundation for this fascinating study. Along with its archival treasures, New Orleans makes a good location for this work because, in terms of homicide, the city followed an exaggerated version of the trajectory of other major U.S. cities in this period. The insights Adler gleans from this data are multilayered, and only a few can be touched upon in such a brief review. The early and mid-1920s were the most violent...
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The Robert Charles incident led residents and officials to construct a new order guiding New Orleans away from paramilitaries and White mobs toward modern policing as racialized violence.
“As Baker (2021, p. 15) reports, the Robert Charles incident led residents and officials to construct “a new order from violence they had precipitated, guiding New Orleans away from its destructive past of paramilitaries and White mobs and toward a more profitable from of racialized violence: modern policing.””
From To Protect and to Serve: Police, Power, and the Production of Inequality in the United States (2024) · cites this paper as Baker 2021
Resistance and assertiveness of Black southerners produced crises that led to the birth of modern policing across the region.
“Others have shown the ways that resistance and assertiveness of Black southerners produced crises that led to the birth of modern policing across the region.”
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- Authors
- Baker, B. E.
- Affiliations
- Newcastle University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Baker, Bruce E
- ORCID
- Baker, Bruce E
- Venue
- Journal of American History
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2021-06-01
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 176-176
- ISSN
- 0021-8723 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-2314
- OpenAlex
- W3177188239
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Journal of American History (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Keywords
- homicide, New Orleans, urban violence, police records, racial segregation, crime statistics, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
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