Evgeny Morozov’s op-ed appeared under the title “The Rise of Data and the Death of Politics” (Evgeny Morozov, Observer, July 2014). The “Haussmannization” of Paris has been exhaustively covered by other writers; for an explicitly architectural focus, see Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition by Jeff Byles (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005) or even The Kill, a great novel by Émile Zola set during Haussmann’s demolitions, originally published in serial form in 1871 (New York: Modern Library, 2005, translated by Arthur Goldhammer). In his book The Insurgent Barricade (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), historian Mark Traugott disputes the notion that Haussmann’s renovations were explicitly directed at preventing street barricades, claiming that their counterrevolutionary effects simply came from pushing the working class out of central Paris. For more on the history of urban lighting programs, see A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005). For more on predictive policing, see, among other articles, “Predicting Crime, L.A.P.D.-Style” (Nate Berg, Guardian, June 2014).
The “Lamm technique” seems to be a favorite topic of crime writers; references to it are legion. I found Herman “Baron” Lamm, the Father of Modern Bank Robbery by Walter Mittelstaedt (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012) and This Here’s a Stick-Up: The Big Bad Book of American Bank Robbery by Duane Swierczynski (New York: Alpha Books, 2002) particularly useful. The Lamm technique is recommended as a business management strategy in The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle (New York: Bantam Books, 2009).
For more on the story of Anthony Curcio, see “Out of Prison, Real-Life Thomas Crown Looks Back on Almost-Perfect Heist” (Brooke Stangeland, ABC News, June 2013), “Tip Leads to Arrest in ‘Inner-Tube’ Robbery” (Christine Clarridge, Seattle Times, November 2008), and “Former High School Star Athlete Sentenced to Prison for Armored Car Robbery” (U.S. District Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington, July 2009).
Reformed bank robber Joe Loya spoke to me from his home in the East Bay in August 2013. While in prison, Loya began writing a memoir that was subsequently published upon his release as The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Celclass="underline" Confessions of a Bank Robber (New York: Rayo, 2004).
The story of Los Angeles bank bandits throwing cash out of their getaway car comes from “Bank Robbery Suspects Throw Cash out the Window During Car Chase Through Downtown LA” (Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post, September 2012).
The phrase “a vast landscape of pursuit potential” comes from an article called “Anatomy of an L.A. Police Pursuit” (Nate Berg, CityLab, September 2012). Christopher Hawthorne first described his idea of the chase versus the manhunt to me in May 2013. For more on Christopher Dorner, see “The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner,” a special illustrated series by the Los Angeles Times published in December 2013. Grégoire Chamayou, whose essay “‘Every Move Will Be Recorded’: A Machinic Police Utopia in the Eighteenth Century” was referred to in chapter 2, has an interesting book on the history of the manhunt, called Manhunts: A Philosophical History (New York: Princeton University Press, 2012, translated by Steven Rendall).
For more on the Berlin bank-tunnel getaway, see “Berlin Bank Robbers Escape … Right Under Cops’ Noses” (Rick Atkinson, Washington Post, June 1995), as well as “Swede Held for Dramatic 1995 German Bank Robbery” (Local, June 2008). For more on the Buenos Aires tunnel getaway, see “S. America’s Big Dig: Bank Robbers Tunnel Their Way to Millions” (Monte Reel, Washington Post, February 2006).
“Urban Escape & Evasion” is a course offered by OnPoint Tactical; a schedule of upcoming instruction dates is available on the company’s website (onpointtactical.com).
Matt Jones’s essay on Jason Bourne’s use of cities first appeared on his blog, Magical Nihilism, in December 2008 under the title “The Bourne Infrastructure.”
Thank you to my in-laws for discussing the burglary of their home in suburban London, and for sharing with me details of the ensuing police investigation. I can only hope that the break-in was not some strange karmic payback for my writing a book called A Burglar’s Guide to the City.
The poem “Meier Helmbrecht” has been published in a variety of translations over the years; for this book, I relied on Peasant Life in Old German Epics: “Meier Helmbrecht” and “Der Arme Heinrich” (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931, translated by Clair Hayden Bell).
The tactic of “using the hand of a dead person” to commit burglary comes from Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Franz Kafka’s parable “Before the Law” is probably best read in the context of his novel The Trial (New York: Schocken Books, 1998, translated by Breon Mitchell). See also The Castle (New York: Schocken Books, 1998, translated by Mark Harman).
No author is given for the article “When Burglars Learn to Handle the Aeroplane with Precision and Silence” (NewYork Daily Tribune, September 1910). Its subtitle? “Our artist takes a look into the future and foresees the time when roofs must be secured as carefully as any other part of the home.” In many ways, it is more accurate to describe this piece as a work of speculative crime fiction, not an article.
The security research of Tamara Denning and Tadayoshi Kohno can be found online, primarily through Denning’s own website (note that Denning is now an assistant professor at the University of Utah: cs.utah.edu/~tdenning). A ninety-four-page PDF from November 2009, called “The Future of Household Robots: Ensuring the Safety and Privacy of Users,” presents perhaps the most straightforward explanation of their research. For more, see “A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons” by Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Joshua R. Smith, and Tadayoshi Kohno (Ubicomp 2009) or “Computer Security and the Modern Home” by Tamara Denning, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Henry M. Levy (Communications of the ACM, January 2013).
Jimmy Stamp’s writings on architecture and the city can be found online at his website (jamestamp.com) as well as on his blog (lifewithoutbuildings.net).
George Leonidas Leslie was buried in Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills Cemetery under the name George Howard on June 9, 1878. The New York Times covered his funeral in a small column called “The Yonkers Murder” on June 10, 1878. With not inconsiderable effort, Leslie’s unmarked grave can be found in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Division No. 1, Old Locust Grove Subdivision, Block 35, Grave 7534.