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Traces police brutality cases in NYC (the city with the oldest and most comprehensive records on the issue) and the anti-brutality movements that sought to eradicate it, from the years after the Civil War through the 1960s. Johnson's main argument is that the idea of police brutality—what exactly it is, who its victims are, and why it occurs—is historically constructed. In the late 19th century, police brutality was understood as an outgrowth of the moral and political corruption of Tammany Hall; in the heavy immigration years of the early 20th, it was redefined as a racial/ethnic issue, one linked intimately with the issues of civil rights; and during Prohibition, police violence was connected to police corruption related to the underground liquor trade and the "war on crime" the federal government declared in response.
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