Assigned to patrol: neighborhoods, police, and changing deployment practices in New York City before 1930.Abstract: Christopher Thale, "Assigned to Patrol: Neighborhoods, Police, and Changing Deployment Practices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. before 1930" Police are widely assumed to have lost close links to neighborhood as a result of the demise of foot patrol and reformism re·form·ism n. A doctrine or movement of reform. re·form  ist n. which cut off
police from local information and concerns. But as this study of New
York's police shows, police-community ties were always limited, and
department policy was not neighborhood-friendly after the 1860s. A
patrol officer could not possibly know every one of thousands of people
on post, and the instability of urban residence made contact and
knowledge more difficult. So did officers' growing propensity to
live far from where they worked, a propensity encouraged by official
policies. Police ties to the locality were weakened further by
bureaucratic factors such as shift rotations and non-patrol assignments.
Aided by call boxes and other technologies, police management
increasingly regarded patrolmen as interchangeable parts interchangeable partsIdentical components that can substitute one for another, particularly important in manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work, came about by the development of the machine-tool industry by a series of 19th-century in a large policing machine. These changes in official policies, rooted both in managerialism In the field of administration, observers can characterise as managerialism those systems where they perceive a preponderance or excess of managerial techniques, solutions and personnel. and reformism, were effective earlier than has been thought, and are visible in the 1880s, decades before the automobile began to be important in the NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development and well before Progressive reform. |
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