Policing America's empire : the United States, the Philippines and the rise of the surveillance state / Alfred W. McCoy

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: analogies of empire -- Part one u.s. colonial police -- Part two philippine national police -- Notes -- Index.

"In Policing America’s Empire Alfred W. McCoy shows how this imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information. Even after Washington freed its colony and won global power in 1945, it would intervene in the Philippines periodically for the next half-century—using the country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression. In trying to create a democracy in the Philippines, the United States unleashed profoundly undemocratic forces that persist to the present day."