Bloody Bay - 9781496217530

Bloody BayGrassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco\nAuthor(s): Darren A. Raspa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496217530, 978-1496217530\nSynopsis\nBloody Bay recounts the gritty history of law enforcement in San Francisco. Beginning just before the California gold rush and through the six decades leading up to the twentieth century, a culture of popular justice and grassroots community peacekeeping was fostered. This policing environment was forged in the hinterland mining camps of the 1840s, molded in the 1851 and 1856 civilian vigilante policing movements, refined in the 1877 joint police and civilian Committee of Safety, and perfected by the Chinatown Squad experiment of the late nineteenth century.\n\n From the American takeover of California in 1846 during the [url] War to Police Commissioner Jesse B. Cooks nationwide law enforcement advisory tour in 1912 and San Franci.