Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part 1: Legal and Societal Limits to Police Power in
Early America (1600s–1800s) 1
Fourth Amendment 1
Fifth Amendment 4
Sixth Amendment 6
Sir Robert Peel and Principles of Modern Policing 8
Bow Street Runners 13
Southern Slave Patrols 15
Colonial Night Watches 18
Pinkerton Detective Agency and Private Policing 20
Law Enforcement in the Wild West 22
International Association of Chiefs of Police 25
Crime Control versus Due Process 28
Part 2: Technological Advances and the Rise of Organized
Crime (1900–1950) 33
Charles Becker (1870–1915) 33
Gangsters of the 1900s 35
Secret Service 39
Teddy Roosevelt’s Fight against Police Corruption 43
ACLU 47
J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), Director of the FBI 50
Wickersham Report on Soaring Crime during Prohibition 55
Brown v. Mississippi 58
National Firearms Act 62
