Book on Race, Immigration, Empire, and the Rise of Modern Policing in New York now under contract.

My book, working title: Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York City, is now under contract with Duke University Press. The book will be a greatly expanded version of my dissertation and will explore how politicians, social scientists, bureaucrats, and beat cops built the New York City Police Department as an amalgam of tactics and technologies imported from all over the globe in an attempt to subordinate the rapidly diversifying industrialized city.