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"Throughout the . . . nineteenth century, the number of policemen in American cities grew more rapidly than the population. . . . Drink and disorder continued to dominate the arrest lists. Nevertheless, some important changes lay ahead. The discipline . . . demonstrated by New York's police in the draft riots of 1863 persuaded businesses and professional leaders . . . of the value of uniformed, professional officers. . . . The uniformed police took over tasks . . . that had formerly been done by watchmen and magistrates. They also began to institute their own surveillance of workers' political activities. . . . The capacity of the state to govern had been greatly increased where it mattered most: in the suppression of popular behavior that disrupted the mastery of society by capitalist markets." — David Montgomery, historian, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century, 1993Which of the following events most directly supports the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

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