Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
Jeffrey S. Adler, "Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing "
English | ISBN: 022664331X | 2019 | 280 pages | PDF | 1018 KB
English | ISBN: 022664331X | 2019 | 280 pages | PDF | 1018 KB
New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city’s homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940—over two thousand in all—scouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contexts—legal, political, cultural, and demographic—and emerges with a tale of racism, urban violence, and vicious policing that has startling relevance for today.
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