Donner,F. Protectors of Privilege. 1990
Donner, Frank. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in
Urban America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 503 pages.
As a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union Project on
Political Surveillance and someone who had been identified as a Communist in
front of Congressional committees during the 1950s, it's not surprising that
Connecticut-based attorney Frank Donner (1911-1993) emerged as the foremost
scholar of U.S. domestic political surveillance. He wrote two major books on
the subject: "The Age of Surveillance" (1981) on political intelligence by
federal agencies, and "Protectors of Privilege" (1990), which looks at
surveillance by police departments in major U.S. cities.
"Protectors of Privilege" is a book that could not have been written
had it not been for a broad coalition of citizen groups in major U.S. cities
that addressed the issue of police intelligence during the late 1970s and
early 1980s. The ACLU and American Friends Service Committee helped with the
organizing, and by the mid-1980s many major cities had enacted laws that
forced their respective police departments to reveal and/or destroy their
political intelligence files, and curtail their activities. This was the
case in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia, each of which gets
its own chapter in this book. Other chapters cover lesser cities and provide
historical background dating from the turn of the century.
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