The Blue Parade.
Reppetto, Thomas A. The Blue Parade. New York: Free Press, [1978]. x, 373 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with orange and gray stamped spine, fine in very good dust jacket. Internally clean. $20. * An analysis tracing the development of American policing from its nineteenth-century municipal origins through the modern era. Reppetto, a former Chicago police commander and criminal justice professor, utilizes police department archives, legislative reports, and contemporary news accounts to examine the institutional evolution of law enforcement. This work details the structural transformation of metropolitan departments, exploring the impact of political corruption, the introduction of early civil service reforms, the professionalization campaigns of the twentieth century, and the evolving legal frameworks surrounding police authority, community relations, and the administration of urban justice.
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