Becoming New York's Finest: Race, Gender, and the Integration of the NYPD, 1935-1980

Name: Becoming New York's Finest: Race, Gender, and the Integration of the NYPD, 1935-1980
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan US
SKU: 9781349458172
Price: 49.49 USD
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Darien, A.

After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing.