Detroit and the problem of order, 1830-1880 : a geography of crime, riot, and policing

Half Title Page Full Title Page ISBN 0-8032-4113-5 CONTENTS List of Tables List of Maps ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION ONE Trouble in the Neighborhoods EARLY GROWTH AND PUBLIC ORDER MAP I-1 : Detroit, 1835 (Burton Historical Collection.) A CHANGING CITY AND THE PROBLEM OF VICE TABLE 1-1 : POPULATION BY WARD AND NATIONAL ORIGIN, 1853 TABLE 1-2 : DISTRIBUTION BY WARD OF SMALL WORKSHOPS AND RETAIL LIQUOR ESTABLISHMENTS, 1857 VIOLENCE AND SPATIAL HEGEMONY TWO The New Downtown THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT THE BACHELOR-TRANSIENT SUBCULTURE TABLE Il-I : BOARDING-HOUSE POPULATION, FIRST AND THIRD WARDS, 1850, 1860, 1870 TABLE Il-2 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF UNATTACHED MALES IN BOARDING HOUSES BY OCCUPATION AND AGE, FIRST AND THIRD WARDS, 1850, 1860, 1870 MAP II-2 : Boarding Houses, Saloons, Billiard Halls, and Vice Areas, 1862. FASHIONABLE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS MAP II-3 : Residences and Businesses of Board of Trade Members, 1864. THREE The Crisis Downtown CRIME AND ITS VICTIMS TABLE Ill-I : COUNTY JAIL COMMITMENTS AND POLICE COURT ARRAIGNMENTS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE, 1847-64 MAP III-1 : Crime Patterns, 1854, 1864 THE PROBLEM OF DISORDER THE CREATION OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE FOUR The Professional Police and the City SPATIAL PATTERNS IN THE EARLY STREETCAR ERA MAP IV-1 : Detroit, 1863. (Burton Historical Collection.) MAP IV-2 : Detroit, 1886. (Burton Historical Collection.) MAP IV-3 : Boarding Houses, Saloons, Billard Halls, and Vice Areas, 1875 THE NEW POLICE AND THE SPATIAL ORDER TABLE IV-1: PERCENTAGE DISTRI BUTION OF POLICE APPOINTEES BY OCCUPATION AND PLACE OF BIRTH, 1865-71 MAP IV-4 : Preprofessional and Professional Police Residences, 1861-71. MAP IV-5 : Suspicious Places Reported by the Police, 1866. PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTS AND THE TRAMP PROBLEM TABLE IV-2 : PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTS, 1865-80 TABLE IV-3 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER AND NON-PUBLC ORDER ARRESTEES BY OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE, 1869-71, 1879-81 TABLE IV-4 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER AND NON-PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTEES BY PLACE OF BIRTH, 1869-71, 1879-81 TABLE IV-5 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTEES AND OFFENDERS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE BY OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE, 1869-71, 1879-81 TABLE IV-6 : PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC ORDER ARRESTEES AND OFFENDERS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE BY PLACE OF BIRTH, 1869-71, 1879-81 THE LEGITIMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL POLICE TABLE IV-7 : SELECTED ARREST PATTERNS OF POLICEMEN BY OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND AND PLACE OF BIRTH, 1869-71 FIVE The Return to Order MOB VIOLENCE IN THE STREETCAR CITY PATTERNS OF CRIME IN THE STREETCAR CITY TABLE V-1 : POLICE COURT ARRAIGNMENTS AND POLICE ARRESTS FOR CRIMES OF THEFT AND PERSONAL VIOLENCE AND FOR PUBLIC ORDER OFFENSES, 1854-85 MAP V-1 : Patterns of Crime and Criminal Residence, 1878-81. TABLE V-2 : POPULATION BY WARD, 1880 DETROIT AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE NOTES ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES INTRODUCTION ONE : TROUBLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS TWO : THE NEW DOWNTOWN THREE : THE CRISIS DOWNTOWN FOUR : THE PROFESSIONAL. POLICE AND THE CITY FIVE : THE RETURN TO ORDER A NOTE ON THE DETROIT SOURCES INDEX