Beat Cop to Top Cop : : A Tale of Three Cities / / John F. Timoney.
Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the histor...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Be Careful What You Wish For
- Part I. New York City
- 1. Getting on the Job
- 2. The South Bronx
- 3. From Sergeant to Management
- 4. Captain Timoney
- 5. Chinatown
- 6. Back to Headquarters Under Dinkins
- 7. The Bratton Era Begins
- 8. CompStat, Crowd Control, and the “Dirty Thirty”
- 9. The Beginning of the End
- 10. Interregnum
- Part II. Philadelphia
- 11. Philadelphia, Here I Come
- 12. Pugnacious Philly
- Part III. Miami
- 13. Paradise Found: Miami
- 14. Free Trade, Free Speech, and the Politics of Policing
- Conclusion: Where We Were, Where We Are
- Index