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Back from the brink : inside the NYPD and New York City's extraordinary 1990s crime drop / Peter Moskos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moskos, Peter, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New York (N.Y.). Police Department--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Crime--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Police--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Police.
- Law enforcement--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Law enforcement.
- Police crackdowns--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Police crackdowns.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1951-.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- In New York during the 1980s and early 1990s crime was seen, justifiably, as out of control. Then, between 1993 and 1996, New York City's murder rate decreased by 50%. 'Back from the Brink' is an unofficial police history and narrative of the people and events that made New York City the safest big city in America. Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former police officer, takes readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into effective law enforcement directly from the police officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s, and won.
- Contents:
- cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Drop Dead (1970s)
- It was mostly a working-class neighborhood
- The cops who got laid off were never the same
- It was important to save the city
- We always seem to resist change
- Crime wasn't addressed in a systematic way
- The lights are out in the city
- 2 Crack, Community Policing, and Crown Heights (1980-1993)
- Cops decide to take the steps of City Hall
- Headquarters didn't want to know a thing
- Community policing
- It was very, very dangerous
- You could make money by making arrests
- The real thing was to avoid scandal
- Safe Streets Safe City
- Crown Heights
- The Democratic National Convention
- 3 NYC Transit Policing and Safer Subway (1984-1995)
- Graffiti was an interesting educational experience
- We can eject people
- You're going to do anything to survive
- People would complain about the quality of life
- Overtime through the roof
- The advocates hit us hard
- We begin applying Broken Windows
- Now we've joined the real police
- 4 Miracles on 42nd Street (1990s)
- Signal the all-clear for mayhem
- We took Bryant Park over
- The Port Authority offered me a job
- Operation Alternative
- Times Square was filthy and run-down
- There is a tendency to romanticize the gutter
- 5 Bratton's Transition (1994)
- Crime and disorder were going to be Giuliani's issues
- We want to bring down crime dramatically
- The story of the squeegees
- The Dirty Thirty
- Fight crime, fear of crime, and disorder
- Does anybody know how many shootings there are?
- Simple solutions involve an enormous amount of training
- 6 Compstat: Accurate Timely Intelligence (1994-1996)
- It was clunky in the beginning
- Compstat was born
- The chief of patrol does not divide by zero
- Crime fell off the table
- Total accountability.
- It changed the culture of the organization
- Don't tell me how hard it is!
- You had to be a tough guy to do it
- 7 Rapid Deployment and Effective Tactics (1994-1996)
- Go out and be cops!
- You're going to have bad incidents
- I worked fourteen hours a day
- I wanted to be an undercover FBI agent
- You have to do that to move up the food chain
- The Broken Windows theory was fundamentally misunderstood
- The crack vials would crunch under your feet
- When you go federal, their whole demeanor changes
- I had guys that cooperated and did five murders
- After we took out one gang, we're on to the next
- Zero tolerance creates a form of zealotry
- 8 Follow-Up and Assessment (1996-2000)
- Are we really fired?
- Good strategies and a lot of hard work
- The Camelot years of NYPD
- The trick is constant enforcement
- ``The job sucks'' again
- A thousand homicides? Impossible
- Postscript
- Glossary
- Methods
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 10, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9780197797808
- 0197797806
- 9780197797785
- 0197797784
- OCLC:
- 1483841561
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