Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing

by KathleenBattles (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $33.95

  Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude and were ultimately successful in making heroes out of law enforcement officers.