Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv Prologue: Analogies of Empire 3 1 Capillaries of Empire 15   U.S. Colonial Police 2 Colonial Coercion 59 3 Surveillance and Scandal 94 4 Paramilitary Pacification 126 5 Constabulary Covert Operations 175 6 Policing the Tribal Zone 206 7 American Police in Manila 236 8 The Conley Case 268 9 President Wilson’s Surveillance State 293   Philippine National Police 10 President Quezon’s Commonwealth 349 11 Philippine Republic 372 12 Martial Law Terror 397 13 Unsheathing the Sword 433 14 Ramos’s Supercops 452 15 Estrada’s Racketeering 471 16 Extrajudicial Executions 498 17 Crucibles of Counterinsurgency 521 Notes 541 Index 637 viii Contents ...