The Italian Roots of the New York Police Department by Paul - TopicsExpress



          

The Italian Roots of the New York Police Department by Paul Moses Today’s news of frayed relations between police and minority communities in Ferguson, Mo., New York and elsewhere should ring a familiar bell to Italian Americans. Newspapers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offered many accounts of tension and distrust between the police and Italian immigrants—the minority community of the day. And while it’s true enough that Italian Americans have deep roots in the NYPD, therein lies another story: how they achieved acceptance after years of tense relations with police.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:06:40 +0000

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