Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing

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acousmetre, 217–18. See also Chion, Michael; Shadow, The action heroes, 35, 47 Adorno, Theodor, 102 advertising agencies, 30, 35, 38. See also Benton and Bowles Alexanderson, E. F., 252n4 Allen’s Alley, 77 Allport, Gordon. See Psychology of Radio Altman, Rick, 48, 72, 78, 96–97, 247n1, 248n12 American Civil Liberties Union, 195 American Legion, 55 America’s Most Wanted, 233 America’s Town Meeting of the Air, 67, 68 Amos ’n’ Andy, 77, 127, 248n6 antivigilantism, 138–40; in crime drama, 107, 136, 138–40, 144, 145. See also police-citizen relations apprehension model: in crime drama, 36, 39–45, 83, 149, 153–56, 157, 159, 176; in policing, 17, 24–25, 75–76, 121–22, 147–50, 176, 185–86; in vigilante drama, 186, 187–88, 206. See also communication technologies; criminals: mobility; dragnet; dragnet effect; physical mobility; police; police-citizen relations; police radio; radio networks: as metaphor Arnheim, Rudolf, 29 audiences, 30, 48–49, 50, 55–57, 61, 110, 115, 168, 189; Depression-era, 55, 56, 101, 129, 138, 144, 168, 189, 231; juvenile, 62, 64–65, 249n2; working class, 26, 27, 58, 61, 121, 196–97 automobiles, 1, 17, 30, 147–49, 150–53, 157, 171, 185, 230 automobility. See automobile; physical mobility Bain, R., 36, 247n2 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 149, 154 banditry: theories of, 109–11, 145 bandits, 19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 109–20, 130–31; celebrity, 105, 115; in crime drama, 111–20; female bandits, 134–35. See also Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow); criminals; criminals, representations of; Dillinger, John; populism Barnouw, Eric, 29, 94, 156, 218, 253n7 271 INDEX 272 index Bates, Theodore, 203 Benny, Jack, 77 Benton and Bowles, 203 Berg, Gertrude, 77 Black Legion, 54–55, 139–40 Black Mask, 204, 207 “blood and thunder,” 62, 68, 69 Blumer, Blumer and Hauser, 249n2 Boccadero, Arthur, 201–2 Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow), 27, 62–63, 105–6, 109, 111, 170, 196; and Gang Busters, 62, 114–20, 124, 170–71, 194, 197–98. See also bandits; crime drama; criminals, representations of Bordua, David: with Albert Reiss, 230 Boy Scouts of America, 67, 133–34 Brinkley, Alan, 245n7 broadcast flow, 174–75, 186, 245n14 Browne, Nick, 254n14 bureaucracy: in policing, 72, 100, 230–31 call-and-response: in crime drama, 158; in policing, 25, 141, 149, 157–58, 188, 175–76. See also apprehension model; police-citizen relations; police radio Calling All Cars: antivigilantism, 138– 39; call-and-response, 141; citizen interference, 195–96; counterdiscourses , 189, 193–94; criminal claustrophobia, 180; criminal intelligence, 128; Dillinger, 112–13, 126; Don Lee Network, 169–70; dragnet, 167–70, 171; dragnet effect, 174; factualness, 56; forensic science, 80, 88–90; host, 93, 95, 97, 98; juvenile audience, 67, juvenile delinquency, 133–34; origins, 34, 45– 46, 64; police dedication, 90–91, 161; police radio, 2, 160–61, 165, 172; police training, 86; public service, 64, 161; representation of G-men, 113–14. See also crime drama “calling all cars,” 3, 6, 240 Cantril, Hadley: Invasion from Mars, 168. See also Psychology of Radio Cawelti, John, 40–41, 204–5 CBS, 34, 52 character types, 81–83, 106, 189, 248n8; impersonality, 81, 82; personality, 81, 83. See also crime drama Charters, Werrett Wallace, 249n2 Chevrolet, 34, 57, 63–64, 65. See also corporate sponsors Chion, Michael, 217–18, 248n1 Christian Herald, 66 chronotope, 154; dragnet chronotope, 150, 154–55 citizens: attitudes toward crime, 25, 26–27, 105–7, 110; distrust of police, 3, 8, 19, 20, 36, 101, 106–7, 115, 117–18, 120, 135–36, 144–45; noncooperation with police, 194–203. See also police-citizen relations; populism Civilian Conservation Corps, 195 Clarens, Carlos, 26, 245n8, 249n4 class, 4, 8, 9, 19–20, 21–26. See also ethnicity; middle class; social mobility; working class classic detective fiction, 8, 35, 39, 40–41, 42–45, 56, 69, 84, 154–55, 184, 204. See also hard-boiled detective fiction Cmiel, Kenneth, 78–79 Cohen, Lizabeth, 19, 25 Colgate-Palmolive, 34, 57, 198. See also corporate sponsors Collier, Rex, 47, 49, 201 communication technologies, 18; call box, 158; OnStar, 239; teletype, 151, 156, 164–65; teletype as metaphor, index 273 165; two-way communication, 1, 152, 158, 164; use by criminals, 150–51, 163–65; use by police, 25, 151–52, 156, 252n4. See also coordination of police forces; physical mobility; police radio confessionals, 35, 52–55, 61, 69, 121, 192; “truth” in...