Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (review)

Abstract

McCoy states that the United States had the most efficient and advanced police and security system in the Philippines, linking data gathering and filing to early IBM machines, the typewriter, telegraph and the Dewey Decimal system adopted by the Library of Congress. Review(s) of: Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, by Alfred W. McCoy, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. 659 pages.