The new police took nearly a century to penetrate poor urban enclaves.

Evidence

In the following century, where the “laboring” and the “dangerous” classes lived without benefit of that fine distinction the reformers were so anxious to draw (this was a cultural distinction as well as a moral and economic one: and a great deal of legislation and regulation was devised to operate directly on it), some areas preserved for long periods a virtually impenetrable enclave character. It took virtually the whole length of the century before the representatives of “law and order”—the new police—could acquire anything like a regular and customary foothold within them. Yet, at the same time, the penetration of the cultures of the laboring masses and the urban poor was deeper, more continuous—and more continuously “educative” and reformatory—in that period than at any time since. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 995

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior interest in bodily dress as identity signaling and ‘reformatory’ cultural penetration — the police as cultural-educative force parallels moral-panic frameworks. — connects to: Modern policing emerged only in the mid-nineteenth century to handle dense populations; Modern police began only in the mid-nineteenth century as bureaucratic monitoring; American policing descends from slave patrols created in the 1700s. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 356
• SEED: The police as slow cultural-educative penetration into enclave cultures is a strong angle for an essay on how formal law-and-order institutions gradually colonize informal social worlds.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Modern policing emerged only in the mid-nineteenth century to handle dense populations; Modern police began only in the mid-nineteenth century as bureaucratic monitoring; American policing descends from slave patrols created in the 1700s. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 356

Broader Connections

• American policing descends from slave patrols created in the 1700s. #complicates (0.82) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 356