Calling all cars : radio dragnets and the technology of policing / Kathleen Battles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battles, Kathleen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police communication systems.

Law enforcement--Technological innovations.

Law enforcement.

Criminal investigation--Technological innovations.

Criminal investigation.

Police--Equipment and supplies.

Police.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude and were ultimately successful in making heroes out of law enforcement officers.Through close analysis of radio programming of the era and the production of true crime docudramas, Kathleen Battles argues that radio was a significant site for overhauling the dismal public image of policing. However, it was not simply the elevation of the percepti

Contents:

Introduction: Heeding the call

Policing perception : public image management and the creation of the radio crime docudrama

The sound of intimate authority : professionalism and the reformation of police officers

Gang busting : criminals and citizens in a professional world

The dragnet effect : space, time, and police presence

The shadow of doubt and the menace of surveillance

Conclusion: Hearing the echoes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4599-3

0-8166-7336-5

OCLC:

646066576