1. While you're reading, write down all the words, phrases, and names with which you're not completely familiar. (Remember Haymarket Affair example mentioned in class.) Include your complete list here.
2. (200-word minimum, please include word count) Why did Smith decide to include this history of the CPD here, at the beginning of Part 2? (Why not in Part 1? Why not later, in Parts 3 or 4?)
3. Write down while you're reading and/or after you've read at least ten questions you have about the information included in this history and/or about the CPD's history in general? (Could something have been explained in greater depth? Do you know of something that wasn't addressed at all?) Include your list of questions here.
13 comments:
1. Dissident, chicanery, derision, Haymarket Affair, Civil Service Act of 1895, cadre
2.Word Count 212
I really cant even begin to tell you why he would include the history here instead of the beginning or the next chapter. Not much makes sense about his style so far. It seems like such a random place to include it. Perhaps he has one of those writing styles where he goes back and forward from specific instances to broad scope? Or perhaps he just doesn’t know what he is doing?
One reason that I can imagine he decided to put the history at this point of the book instead of right at the beginning is to possibly generate a bit of personal interest in the book instead of throwing the history at you at the very beginning. In some cases, putting the history at the beginning leads to a pretty slow start. But I think the history that was provided in this case could have easily been put at the beginning without being too slow.
The stories portrayed in this book have the potential to be put together in such a way that they produce a good book, but something about it just is not working so far. I just don’t think that he put enough time into the organization or not enough thought into the flow of this book.
3. How was the star first decided upon as a symbol for ‘the law’?
What exactly was it that caused the riots during the Democratic National Convention?
How could those issues have been avoided?
Why did they pick the South Side for the location of the Police Headquarters?
What is on the Chicago Seal?
What does the motto mean?
What is it that draws people to the Chicago Police Department versus another city?
Has CAPS panned out as Daley had hoped?
What kind of benefits do businesses get from basically having an open door policy with the police? (Giving them free dinner and whatnot?)
1)
- yippies - 51
-New Leftists - 51
-dissident - 51
-Lager Beer Riot - 53
-Temperance Movement - 54
-Railroad Strike of 1877 - 54
-Bertillon System - 56
- jaunt - 62
- cadre - 68
2)
Smith decided to include this history of the Chicago Police Department at the beginning of part two for three reasons; the first being the interest of the general audience. To me, and most likely the general public, this section just was not that interesting, and his writing did not make it any better. This section seemed to drag even more so than the previous. If Smith would have made this the first part, most people would have stopped reading after the first page. The previous part, for the most part, is more of an attention getter and an easier read entertainment-wise.
Smith did not want the overall past of the Chicago Police Department to negatively or positively affect the stories of the individual police officers that were interviewed. He wanted their stories to stand out on their own and hold their own meaning without being muddied or brought up by the general history. Also, the general history is not the point of the book, the individual experiences are. However, an overall history is necessary to have in this book, but Smith made his point stronger by not putting it first.
If Smith put the history any later, it would have been irrelevant. It would have been too late to hold any meaning in the scheme of things. So, although it was rather boring, it was perfectly placed.
Word count: 227
3.)
1.) How is a yippie different from a hippie?
2.) What is the star a symbol for?
3.) When the CPD first came into being, how were other cities police forces?
4.) Did other cities have police forces at all?
5.) How did Chicago’s population grow so fast?
6.) Why didn’t Smith include the Chicago Fire in the history?
7.) What did the police do during the Chicago Fire?
8.) What did the police do after the Chicago Fire?
9.) What encompasses a “Chicagoese dialect?”
10.) How did the CPD and the Chicago Fire Dept. get along?
1.
1968 Democratic National Convention, Abbie Hoffman, Yippies, Fort Dearborn, Know-Nothing party, Railroad Strike of 1877, Haymarket Affair, ward heelers, The Outfit, Big Jim, Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo, The Summerdale Scandal, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Carter Harrison.
2.
I actually feel that putting the department's history at this point rather than at the beginning or somewhere else was a somewhat intelligent move. Placing too much dry historical information at the start of the book would've made the book more boring than it already is and impenetrable to a reader with a even a pretty reasonable attention span. This kind of information appearing too far into the book would have been nonsensical and pointless. It's sort of correct to put it where it is.
Putting the CPD's history at the beginning of the second part and a general Chicago history at the beginning of the first establishes an overall structure to the book that I assume will be continued in the other two parts. The biggest problem I could see with this is that – while I can clearly see the intention – in the choice, I'm not sure that it's actually been followed out so far. The first part's stories didn't connect very much with Chicago's history, except perhaps for Art Hannus's. I would've expected the opening of each part to be relevant to the stories within. I suppose I'll have to read part two to see if Smith can justify the way that he began it, since he couldn't seem to do that with part one.
(Word Count: 217)
3.
a. What exactly transpired at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
b. What was the general opinion of organized crime during Prohibition among the majority of officers?
c. What might've happened to officers at the time who didn't take bribes?
d. What kind of guns, if any, did the first Chicago police officers carry?
e. What kind of guns would the average citizen have carried at the time?
f. Besides the ones mentioned, what kind of new technologies have been introduced into the department in the past fifty years or so?
g. How did the department find officers during World War II?
h. What were things like in Chicago during the Civil War and did it affect the department in any way?
i. Who was the longest serving officer in the history of the department and what is his story?
j. Among officers today, how much attention is paid to the history of the department?
high constable
Fort Dearborn
Chicanery
Lager Beer Riot
Levi Boone
Know-Nothing Pary
Chief Cyrus P Bradley
Emerald Isle
Railroad Strike of 1877
William McGarile
Bertillon System
Lambert Tree Award
Carter H Harrison Gold Medal
Civil Service Act
Superintendent John Joseph Badenoch
Centuries have twice flipped
Alderman
The Outfit
Big Jim
Bugs
LeRoy Steward
Volstead Act (18th Amendment)
Morgan Collins
Superintendent Charles Fitzmorris
Mayor William Dever
Unemployed Boys Bureau
Anthony DeGrazio
Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo
Superintendent Tim OConnor
Superintendent Matt Rodriguez
Frank Milito
Dickie Morrison
Cahoots
Summerdale Scandal
Benjamin Adamowski
“the book cop”
Orlando W Wilson
Richard Lindberg
To Serve and Collect
“shoot to kill” arsonists
Black Panther
Fred Hampton
Mark Clark
Fred Rice
Fraternal Order of Police in 1981
Cabrini-Green
Canaryville
Hot button issues of crime and race
CAPS (Community Alternative Policing Strategy)
Beat meetings
Superintendint Phil Cline
CLEAR computer system
Carter Harrison
Rich Lindberg
Robert Blau in The Cop Shop
Cadre
Jimmy’s Red Hots on Grand Avenue
Winnetka Police
Officer Friendly
Algren’s
Smith included this history at the beginning of Part II because it is such a detailed report of the Chicago Police Department. He gave the reader a basic history in Part I, which was helpful to better understand the officers’ biographies. Seeing that the history in Part I was an introduction to those first biographies, it is a safe assumption that this history will help the reader to better understand what is to come.
The biographies in Part I are what really caught the interest and attention of the readers. Putting the monotonous history after the exciting biographies rather than before them was a smart move on Smith’s part. If he had put all of this earlier, in Part I, the reader could have gotten easily confused and perhaps frustrated with the direction book. It is also possible that the book would not have been as interesting with so many facts in one spot. Likewise, if Smith put this information later, Part III may not make sense, though it’s hard to tell not having read the next section. It seems this that this is the perfect spot for such a fanatical account of the CPD’s past.
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What percent of the CPD officers have roots in Chicago?
Do officers still ostricize those that come to the department from outside Chicago?
Are the officers spread evenly across the districts?
What year did the police records go digital?
Does each city’s police department have its own Academy?
How many years must one attend the CPD’s Academy before becoming an officer?
When were shifts cut from 12 hours?
How high do the star numbers go?
Why does Smith mention so many people only once? Why mention their names at all?
Why do firetrucks respond to call before police do?
1. Lager Beer Riot
Railroad Strike of 1877
Bertillon System
Haymarket Affair
Beat
Civil Service Act
Yippie
New Leftist
2. It is obvious that the author dropped the Chicago Police Department's history in between personal stories in order to hold the attention of the reader and communicate what he might have thought was important to know prior to reading on. The section of the book was very slow, and somewhat poorly written in that there were no hints as to the reason the book had to so painstakingly detail the department's history from day one. Why should I know every single uniform change, policy change, or political involvement change in the department since 1837? How will this help me understand the author's reason for writing the book? I wasn't able to figure it out. The history section, while maybe not intending to, destroyed any interest I had in reading the rest of the book. It was a clever technique that I'm sure the author was aware of though, which was to open with personal stories to "grab" the reader, then drop 17 pages of rambling, then hope they would still want to read on past the history to hear the more exciting and touching stories of the individual police officers. It would have been an extremely poor decision to include this section of the book at the beginning, however regardless of where it is included, the history could have easily been cut in half.
Word Count - 224
3. How much does superstition play in to the process of choosing a star number?
What were some examples of different laws in Chicago when the department began in 1837?
It being a native Chicagoan still important today?
How important was the increase in police officers when the population of the city began to grow?
In what ways could the Chicago Police Department still be considered a political body, if any?
How effective was the Bertillon method?
Does the CAPS system have any influence on cops today (It doesn't seem like it)?
Has the success of the Unemployed Boys Bureau been matched since its existence?
Why was it important for me to know such a detailed history of the department?
Why is the 1968 Democratic National Convention so important?
1.) Yippie, saloon, “they know not what they do”, calaboose, chicanery, Lager Beer Riot, temperance movement, the city seal, Emerald Isle, Railroad Strike of 1877, Haymarket Affair of 1886, Bertillon System, Lambert Tree Award, and Carter H. Harrison Gold Medal, Big Jim, Bugs, the Outfit, Volstead Act, Fraternal Order of Police, and Jimmy’s Red Hots.
2.) I think that Smith decided to include the history of the CPD at the beginning of part two because just like at the beginning of part one he really wants to educate the reader about the topic that he is writing about. If he were to include the history of the department with the history of Chicago in part one it would have been too overwhelming. I think he is trying to share his knowledge of the CPD in a fashion that is not just a typical book format. He first wrote the history of Chicago, then tied in some of the officer stories, and then went back to information on the CPD. He began with the broad “C” of CPD to create a setting and then narrowed in to the “PD” to explain how the police department originated. I think that the order he chose to do this makes sense and is a pretty good idea. If he would have chosen to wait with the history of the department until later in the book, it would have been off beat. It would be confusing to read about all these police stories and then learning about their history. I think it is more effective to give us a little background so that when we are reading the stories we already have some previous knowledge.
Word Count: 225
3.) Why is calling the star a badge so bad? P. 52
What is a detailed meaning of the star?
Why did the CPD choose this to be their symbol?
How long does a person attend the Police Academy?
What is the average age entering the CPD?
Why were student radicals trying to bomb the statue that was made after the Haymarket Affair?
Why is Capone such a celebrity in the eye of the public?
What kind of investigations were they performing before the tools the CPD have now?
How did they identify dead bodies without the technology we have today?
What did they do in the past that may be better than how they do it in the present?
#1.
Yippie, Dissident, Chicanery, Lager Beer Riot, Haymarket Affair, Fervor , “the beat”, Volstead Act, Tenure , The Summerdale Scandal, The book cop, Daley’s “shoot to kill”, Cadre, Carter Harrison, CAPS, CLEAR computer system
#2.
Word Count: 213
Reading that chapter was hard for me, I kept getting distracted because that was just boring. All it was, was a bunch of facts, statistics and a timeline of the Chicago Police Department that perhaps only those involved in the CPD would find interesting, or helpful for them at all. Yes, some of the information is helpful for those reading this book but I honestly don’t know why he put it in the beginning of part two. Possibly because there was no where else in the book to put it sensibly? That was all probably too harsh, but part one seemed to also be a lump of background information and then short stories of people in the Chicago Police Department. So why add even more information? The flow of this book seems nonexistent. Background info of CPD families, random stories of CPD officers, then more info on the making and development of the CPD. I think, at least I’m hoping, that he has something wild and great in store for us in the coming chapters that has to do with all the information that Smith has thrown at us. So far, if I were writing this, I would put all the information together, and not have as many of the statistics in there.
#3.
Why are there so many complicated statistics in there?
Why didn’t you go into more depth about Capone?
What is a yippie?
How much did the Great Depression effect the Chicago Police Department (money-wise and crime-wise)?
What was the Chicago Police Department’s involvement in the Great Chicago Fire?
What was the CPD’s community involvement in the beginning and now?
What changed?
Are the star numbers only up to 4 digits?
Were the Police uniforms always navy blue?
Where does “Police” come from?
How did past wars effect the development of the Chicago Police department, if at all?
1. Special operations training unit
2. Fort Dearborn
3. “Calaboose”
4. “Lager Beer Riot”
5. Anti-Catholic Know-Nothing party
6. Railroad Strike of 1877
7. Police matron positions
8. Teamster
9. Bertillon system
10. Tomfoolery
11. Unemployed Boys Bureau
12. CLEAR computer system
I think adding the Chicago Police Department’s history to the beginning of Part 2 is more effective than it would have been if it was in Part 1. Smith used Part 1 first to introduce the reader into basic information about what it means to be a police officer in Chicago. He describes a little of the criminal history of the city and how the police department is viewed by the public in Chicago. I think beginning the book with a complete history of the department would be less interesting and would not catch the reader’s attention as well. After that beginning, Smith begins telling individual stories of different police officers and then brings an end to Part 1. Inserting the department’s history here, in the beginning of Part 2, serves as kind of a bridge into more individual stories, which he starts telling again on page 70 with the personal story of John O’Shea. Smith seems to spread out all of the factual information through the book in between these individualized accounts. This seems to serve as simply written informative background information on the career that the men he describes has chosen. Neither aspect of the book would be as effective without the other counterpart.
Word Count: 206
1. Why did Smith mention early in the book what the reason for the invention of the crime lab in Chicago was, but didn’t mention or elaborate on it here?
2. What kind of medical services did officers get in the beginning of the department?
3. What were the details of the Railroad Strike of 1877?
4. What was the monument that was erected 1889 a statue of?
5. How many officers participated in the “pastimes” Smith mentions? (sleeping and visiting saloons)
6. What are more details on the Outfit?
7. What were some of the major incidents involving the Outfit and the Chicago Police Department?
8. What were the differences in the training and tests officers had to take throughout the history of the department?
9. What were the specific differences in the public’s attitude towards the department over time?
10. What are more details of the unionization of the department?
Question 1
Yippie
Railroad Strike of 1877
Fort Dearborn
Lager Beer Riot
Lambert Tree Award
Bertillon System
Alderman
Volstead Act
Acumen
Question 2
This Chapter in the book includes a lot of negative views on the CPD since it covers much of the Chicago Police Department’s corrupt and less than reputable past. The author is trying to use this book as a whole to give the reader insight into them as to gain more respect for them. Therefore, this chapter would have left the reader with a relatively bad first impression, which really works against his goal for the book. However, this is a large part of their history, which many people know about already, so he couldn’t just take it out even if he wanted to. Smith could have put this chapter later in the book, but I believe he had two important reasons not to. First off, to put the history of anything late in a book is pretty bad flow, it just wouldn’t fit well. Secondly, and more importantly, he doesn’t want to seem like he’s avoiding the topic. Chicago Police are infamous throughout the country for their “colorful past” and quite frankly Smith did nothing to sugarcoat it, he told it exactly the way it happened. He most likely wanted to get on the topic that was likely to be on the readers mind right away to address the issue and put it to rest.
Word Count 216
Question 3
1. How high do the numbers on Police stars go?
2. Why were the prerequisites to being an officer so low before?
3. What level of education do they need today to get an entry level position?
4. Why was an 80 hour work week necessary?
5. How accurate is the Bertillon System?
6. How could they Unemployed Boys Bureau have survived?
7. What is it in the CPD that seems to generate corruption?
8. Exactly how much did crime drop in the trial stages of CAPS?
9. How many patrols do the CPD have out on average for any given day?
10. Given they mixed past of the CPD, is the author truly proud to have a family history that largely revolves around it?
1. Yippies, New Liftists, Railroad Strike of 1877, Haymarket Affair of 1886, The Lambert Tree Award, Carter H. Harrison Gold Medal Award, Big Jim, Bugs.
2.(212) I believe that in part one, Smith wanted to capture the reader’s attention. He figured that if he started to ramble on about the Chicago Police Departments history right off the back that he would start to bore his audience. Instead he started us off with a few interviews, and a few stories to spark our interest. If he would of gave us the history in part three that would have been to late, and it would of looked like he was going backwards. By putting the history in part two it maintains progress in his book to tell us about the Chicago Police Department. It also makes sense to put the history here because it shows the difference as to how things were back then, and how things are now. We have come along way from patrol wagons with horses. We now have automobiles, and helicopters to help protect our city. It shows how the police department has grown more diverse from when they first started. Before you couldn’t find women or African Americans in the Police Department, and now that is something very common to see. This part of the book shows how Chicago has grown as a community. Although there were ups and downs, progress was always made.
3. What was the average salary of a Chicagoan in the 1930’s?
Why was there a law against in alcohol?
Besides Al Capone, who were other major Criminals that the City had Trouble with?
Even though there were nearly 1300 gangs within the city, which were the main ones?
Why were most of the early police officers of Irish decent?
Who set up the first Block Club?
Why did the Chicago Police Department abandon its longtime home at 11th and State, to 35th and Michigan?
Statistically what is Chicago’s worst neighborhood?
Was the Bertillon Method efficient?
What was the Chicago Police Star made out of?
• The Railroad Strike of 1877
• Lambert Tree Award
• Bugs
• The Cop Shop
Smith put the history of the Chicago Police Department in an odd place. The history is usually at the very beginning. However I think that putting it in the second chapter was a good decision. It gave room for a long introduction and opened up the tone and direction with the first the first chapter.
Since Smith didn’t put the history at the beginning, we got to see why he was interested in this project. This was also shown through his descriptions of the other officers and their personal stories. He showed great respect for them by writing about how hard they work and what they go through on a daily basis. Smith also got a chance to talk about his and his family’s history with the force, which is a very important part of the book.
If he had put the history at the beginning of the book instead, the reader would have thought that this was a history book. It would not have gotten the message across in the best way. The way he wrote it shows that there is a reason behind this book and that he has a purpose with it. I have not read the other chapters in the book but I’m sure most of it bases off of the history of the city. Therefore, putting it any further would prevent the book from making sense. The history is very important to the force and where it is today. I think Smith made a good decision by placing it where he did.
(Word Count: 257)
• What happened during the Railroad Strike of 1877 and what caused it?
• What kind of accomplishment is reason for a Lambert Tree Award?
• If any ordinary guy could have become a cop during the early years, what do they require now in order to be an officer?
• Are there sill positions today that are similar to a “police matron”?
• Why were gangs so prevalent in the earlier days in Chicago more than other cities?
• Do the different districts work together at all or are they more like separate cities?
• Did the CAPS program consist of police and citizens or was there some sort of bridge between them?
• How much lower or higher is Chicago’s crime rate today than is past years?
• Is the Civil Service Act still in place today?
• What is the difference between a police Chief and a Superintendant?
1. Names: Abbie Hoffman, Marshal Pidgeon, Roy Dillon, John O’Bryant, Joseph Sevick, Detective Thomas Fallon, Officer Patrick Durkin, Officer Oreste Gonzalez, Officer Joey Cali, Officer James Henry Camp, Sergeant Hector Silva, John Shrigley, William Ogden, Bukner Morris, Benjamin Raymond, Chief Cyrus P. Bradley, William McGarigle, Superintendent John Joseph Badenoch, Big Jim, Bugs, LeRoy Steward, Superintendent Charles Fitzmorris, Superintendent Morgan Collins, Mayor William Dever, Patricia Leeds, Anthony Degrazio, Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo, Superintendent Tim O’Connor, Superintendent Matt Rodriquez, Frank Milito, Dickie Morrison, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Benjamin Adamowski, Orlando W. Wilson, Richard Lindberg, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Matt Rodriguez, Superintendent Phil Cline, Carter Harrison, Rich Lindberg, Robert Blau, Fireman John O’Shea, Sergeant Bill Jaconetti, Winnetka Police Chief Joe DeLopez, and “Uncle Willie” Calbrese,
Places and Things: Fort Dearborn, Lager Beer Riot, the temperance movement, the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know Nothing part, Emerald Isle, Railroad Strike of 1877, Chicago Police Academy, The Lambert Tree Award, the Carter H. Harrison Gold Medal, Civil Service Act, Unemployed Boys Bureau, Damen Avenue station, The Summerdale Scandal, School of Crimnology at UCLA, the Fraternal Order of Police, CAPS, the CLEAR computer system, and Jimmy’s Red Hots.
Words and Phrases: Calaboose, the infirm, ward heelers, alderman, tomfoolery, and Officer Friendly.
2. The reason I believe Smith chose to include the history portion at beginning of Part 2 and not the other Parts of the book is I think he likes to give some background knowledge before be begins his new Parts. In Part 1 he also gives a history lesson to better help why Chicago police are tough and to help give some perspective for the stories leading up to it. So I think the more detailed history portion at the beginning of Part 2 gives the reader a chance to understand how police force was created, what were it’s struggles, and where is the CPD now. But more I think to show how it grew, because it seems we will be reading accounts from retired figures, which will probably deal with how they fought crime when they were on the beat. So to give us an understanding of the different forms the CPD has taken it gives us, the reader, a chance have background knowledge that normally we would not have. Because I must of highlighted almost every name in this chapter because I before reading it I had no idea who these people and events were. That being said I found this chapter to be overwhelming because of the vast amounts of names and dates, and since generally I skip over dates and names. So when I had to focus on the names I did not know I found it difficult to take anything away from the text besides the general feeling that Smith really loves the CPD.
3. 1. How and why did Sergeant Hector Silva die?
2. Why did early Chicago patrol officers work 12 hours each day of the week without substitution?
3. What was the first type of patrol car used? Ford?
4. When the police teamed with Northwestern University to create the city’s first crime laboratory, what were the tools they used to fight crime?
5. Who was Dickie Morrison?
6. Why was Dickie Morrison considered one of Chicago’s wittiest burglars?
8. In the 1980s the CPD entered the technological boom with what new tools and gadgetry?
9. Who invented the CLEAR computer sysem?
10. How did early patrolmen hide their star? Did the general public know who the police were anyways?
1. Haymarket Affair, Civil Service Act, railroad strike of 1877, Jaunt, Temeperance movement.
2. I feel that smith probably thought a history of CPD is probably dry and trite to have the book start off. The average reader is probably not intrested in taking on so much information at once. Smith probably decided to warm the reader up a little by making part 1 more interesting than part two. However, I feel that putting all this in later would leave the reader confused, so I think his placement was very appropriate espically for writing that really is all fictious and leaves small room for intreptaion. Smith was able to take boring information, and make it intresting so I believe some credit is due there, but at the same time I find this story just extremely boring and dry. I've perosnally never cared about the police, not that I have a problem with them or no respect. I just some how have found a way to make crime and criminal science boring to me. I feel that smiths writings and stories are well written and organized, but there is something that has just left me uninterested with this story.
3. How the CPD motto made?
Why is the star used as a symbol?
What is a yippie?
How did the CPD and the fire squad get along?
How did the CPD help the fireman during the chicago fire?
What kind of guns did the CPD first carry?
What makes the CPD different from other stations?
How many "dirty cops" affected the law than?
how does open door policy help our cith and police force?
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