“A constantly evolving conflict among police and civilians”
A message from the dawn of scientific policing
A while back I started reading a book by Michael Casiano called Let Us Alone, about the post-Civil-War development of policing in Baltimore — or, as he has it, “The Origins of Baltimore’s Police State.” The subject has natural appeal to me as (I guess I must consider myself) a new Baltimorean, especially as I’d recently read We Own This City, the really…


