1. New York City, The New York City—Rand Institute Annual Report (New York, 1970), 1–2. The Harvard-educated Szanton was a former “whiz kid” on Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s Policy Planning Staff.

2. Letter, Szanton to Lindsay, 30 September 1970, Reel 8, Records of the John V. Lindsay Administration, Subject Files—Confidential, 1966–73, New York City Municipal Archives (NYCMA), New York.

3. Letter, Szanton to Lindsay, 26 October 1970, in ibid.

4. Szanton to Lindsay, 30 September 1970, Reel 8, Records of Lindsay Administration, in ibid.

5. “City Hires Rand Corp to Study Four Agencies,” New York Times, 9 January 1968, 31.

6. Szanton to Lindsay, 13 January 1971, Reel 8, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files—Confidential, 1966–73, NYCMA; “City-Rand Consultant Institute Ending Because of Tight Budget,” New York Times, 18 April 1975, 36.

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26. Federal appropriations for the nation’s cities grew from $3.9 billion in 1960 to $14 billion by the start of 1969, and in 1968 the Johnson administration created the Urban Institute, a government-backed think tank designed, in Johnson’s words, to “give us the power through knowledge to help solve the problems . . . of the American city and its people . . . bridging the gulf between the lonely scholar in search of truth and the decision-maker in search of progress through effective programs.” The New York Times envisaged that it “would do for the cities what the Rand Corporation and other “think-tanks” have done for the nation’s defense establishment.” See Teaford, Jon, The Twentieth- Century American City, 2nd ed. (Baltimore, 1993), 137Google Scholar; “Institute Set Up to Aid the Cities,” New York Times, 27 April 1968, 1; “Johnson Chooses ‘Think Tank’ Panel on Urban Issues,” New York Times, 7 December 1967, 1.

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28. “Computers Widen Government Role,” New York Times, 7 November 1965, F1; ‘“Think Tank” Zeroes in on Domestic Crises,” Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1969, 1; ‘“Think Factory’ to Help L.A. Solve Problems,” Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1967, B1. Jennifer Light has also demonstrated how city officials in Pittsburgh during the 1960s used computer simulations designed by expert “technicians” from Rand and the aerospace contractor Lockheed to define public policy goals. See Light, From Warfare to Welfare, 57–62.

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33. “New York City in Crisis,” New York Herald Tribune, 25 January 1965; “The Fear: The Impact of Rising Crime on New Yorkers,” New York Herald Tribune, 4 March 1965, 1, 8.

34. For this conventional portrayal of Lindsay’s record as mayor, see Vincent Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York (New York, 2001); Siegel, Fred, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities (New York, 2007)Google Scholar; Morris, Cost of Good Intentions; Yates, Douglas, The Ungovernable City: The Politics of Urban Problems and Policymaking (Cambridge, 1978)Google Scholar. For more recent attempts to resurrect Lindsay’s historical reputation, see Roberts, Sam, ed., America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York (New York, 2010)Google Scholar; Viteritti, Joseph, ed., Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream (Baltimore, 2014)Google Scholar.

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42. Lindsay, The City, 118–19; Lindsay, Journey into Politics, 136.

43. John Lindsay, remarks on law enforcement to Idlewild Lions Club, JFK International Airport, New York City, 17 June 1965, Box 103, Folder 196, “Crime, Police, Narcotics,” John V. Lindsay [JVL] Papers (hereafter JVL Papers), Yale University, New Haven [emphasis added].

44. John V. Lindsay, “White Paper on Crime and Safety,” n.d. [September 1965], Box 91, Folder 76, “Position Papers—Crime and Law Enforcement: Operation Safe City,” JVL Papers [emphasis added].

45. Lindsay for Mayor press release, 21 October 1965, Box 104, Folder 249, “Operation Safe City,” JVL Papers.

46. Cannato, Ungovernable City, 160.

47. “Excerpts from Law Enforcement Task Force Report,” Reel 43, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files 1966–73, NYCMA.

48. Ibid., Lindsay, The City, 87–89.

49. Letter, Police Commissioner Vincent Broderick to Lindsay, 8 February 1966, Reel 43, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files 1966–73, NYCMA; McNickle, Chris, To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City (New York, 1993), 214–15Google Scholar. For more on the Lindsay administration’s clashes over civilian review, see Cannato, Ungovernable City, 155–88.

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51. Indeed, Jay Kriegel later confessed that “the [Police] department was old and tired, and badly in need of modernization,” and Lindsay’s “1965 campaign in a real sense was run against the police force.” See Morris, Cost of Good Intentions, 92.

52. Letter, Lindsay to Leary, 2 January 1968, Reel 44, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files 1966–73, NYCMA; “Sweeping Change in Police Powers Urged on Lindsay, New York Times, 7 February 1966, 1; Letter, Hayes to Winnick, 24 February 1967, Box 361, Folder 418, “Urban Institute,” JVL Papers.

53. The commission had recommended that “all of a State or city’s actions against crime should be planned together, by a single body. The police, the courts, the correctional system and the noncriminal agencies of the community must plan their actions against crime jointly if they are to make real headway.” See The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, 279–80.

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56. Memo, Commissioner Leary to All Commands, 15 August 1969, Box 378, Folder 643, “Communications: Police: SPRINT,” JVL Papers; New York City Police Department press release, 1 October 1969, JVL Papers.

57. “City Opens Electronics ‘War Room’ for Police,” New York Times, 14 October 1969, 1.

58. Quotes from Independent Citizens’ Committee against Civilian Review Boards advertisements, New York Times, 3 November 1966, 28, and 1 October 1966, 11. For more on the review-board campaign, see Cannato, Ungovernable City, 155–88.

59. “Lindsay to Raise Number of Police on Patrol by 40%,” New York Times, 26 December 1967, 1; Letter, Lindsay to Hon. Francis Smith, 24 March 1969, Reel 8, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files—Confidential, 1966–73, NYCMA; Morris, , Cost of Good Intentions, 94–95Google Scholar. Only in March 1969 did the mayor finally succeed in instituting the platoon, having been forced to appeal to the state legislature to intervene in the dispute.

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61. “Garelik Calls Rand Study of City’s Police a Failure,” New York Times, 7 October 1970, 55; Szanton to Hayes, 13 February 1970, Box 358, Folder 353, “Rand,” JVL Papers.

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64. “1,000 Protest Plans in Bronx to Merge 2 Police Precincts,” New York Times, 3 March 1968, 78; “Chinatown Is Told That Police Station Will Stay,” New York Times, 24 February 1968, 19; “Mayor Delays Cuts in Police Precincts,” New York Times, 30 April 1968, 1.

65. Shefter, Martin, Political Crisis/Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City (New York, 1985), 89.Google Scholar By contrast, Los Angeles, which did enjoy economic growth during the 1970s, continued to invest in consultants’ projects, including a $28 million Emergency Command Control Communications System devised by Systems Development Corporation. See “Police Radio System Contract Awarded,” Los Angeles Times, 15 February 1978, E1.

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67. Notes to Mayor Lindsay on police meeting, n.d., Reel 43, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files 1966–73, NYCMA (emphasis in original).

68. Memo, Davidoff to Lindsay, 1 February 1967, Box 247, Folder 121, JVL Papers.

69. “An Open Letter to the Mayor,” New York Times, 7 January 1969, 2; “Private Guards are Enlisted by Tenants to Combat Crime,” New York Times, 3 March 1969, 37.

70. Cannato, Ungovernable City, 526.

71. In April 1967, Lindsay admonished City Council President Frank O’Connor for criticizing the city’s sharp increases in crime, instead attributing the increase to his own “reforms in crime reporting.” “That these reforms in our crime reporting system have taken place should be a matter for praise by public officials rather than a source for raising public doubt and suspicion,” he wrote. See Lindsay to O’Connor, 24 April 1967, Reel 14, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files 1966–73, NYCMA.

72. Richard Aurelio, “Lindsay Diary,” 20 March 1969, Box 226, Folder 35; “Campaign in New York City,” JVL Papers; “The Changing City,” New York Times, 3 June 1969, 1; Memo, Kriegel to Lindsay, 16 July 1969, Box 398, Folder 26, “Crime Rates,” JVL Papers; Memo, Goldsmark to Lindsay, n.d., Box 398, Folder 27, “Election Statistics,” JVL Papers.

73. “Voter Surveys in City Rate Crime No. 1,” New York Times, 22 September 1969, 27.

74. “Crime and Civil Disorder Are Chief Issues in Elections in Cities,” New York Times, 4 November 1969, 37; “The One-Issue Primaries,” New York Times, 7 June 1969, 34; “Procaccino Enters Contest for Mayor,” New York Times, 19 February 1969, 1; “Answering November’s Big Question: What Is a Mario Procaccino?,” New York Times, 10 August 1969, SM7.

75. “Lindsay Declares Crime Is Key Problem Here,” New York Times, 16 May 1969, 34; “Mayor Says Foes Make Crime Politics of Hysteria,” New York Times, 15 May 1969, 36; Perrotta statement on crime, n.d., Box 134, Folder 56, “Campaign Press Releases (2),” JVL Papers; “The Mayoralty: Crime,” New York Times, 31 October 1969, 44; “Answering November’s Big Question,” New York Times, SM7.

76. “Analysis of Recent Voting Patterns,” New York Times, 6 October 1969, 38; “Lindsay, Garelik, and Beame Victors,” New York Times, 5 November 1969, 1.

77. Hamill, Pete, “The Revolt of the White Lower-Middle Class,” in The White Majority: Between Poverty and Affluence, ed. Howe, Louise Kapp (New York, 1970), 12;Google Scholar Hamill, “Looking at Lindsay,” Village Voice, 27 March 1969. Indeed, Michael Javen Fortner’s work underlines the persistence of strong black support, especially in working- and middle-class communities, for increased police protection and punitive policies and high levels of anxiety toward crime in 1960s and 1970s New York. See Fortner, “The ‘Silent Majority’ in Black and White,” 261–68, 273–75.

78. Morris, Cost of Good Intentions, 167–68. Indeed, by the time Lindsay left office in 1973, New York had fallen from second among American cities for violent crime, where it stood in 1966, to nineteenth.

79. “Lindsay Steps Up City Services to Soothe Working-Class Anger,” New York Times, 30 November 1969, 1; Memo, Kriegel to Steve Manos and Diane Lacey, 4 January 1970, Reel 2, Records of Lindsay Administration, Subject Files 1966–73, NYCMA (emphasis in original).

80. “Besieged City,” New York Times, 19 October 1968, 36; “Crime Monitoring TV Goes on in Times Sq.,” New York Times, 26 September 1973, 43.

81. Lindsay, The City, 164–65.

82. In Los Angeles, former police officer Tom Bradley was elected mayor in 1973, and LAPD chief Edward Davis was regularly slated as a potential mayoral candidate until his run for governor of California in 1978.

83. Wilson, James Q., Thinking About Crime (New York, 1975);Google Scholar Robert Martinson, “What Works? Questions and Answers about Prison Reform,” Public Interest 35 (Spring 1974): 22. See also Nathan Glazer, “The Limits of Social Policy,” Commentary 52 (September 1971), 51–58.

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