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Chicago Police camera in 2006 Chicago Police helmet & billy-club circa 1968. Chicago police officers are required to buy their own duty equipment (except Taser x2 and Motorola radio Motorola phone). [115] All field officers must also be qualified to carry a Taser. Some officers choose to carry a backup weapon as well, which must meet certain ...
August Vollmer (March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955) was the first police chief of Berkeley, California, and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century.
Members of the Oakland Police Department Gang Task Force with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Special Service Unit agents in 2001. A gang intelligence unit (GIU) (also known as an anti-gang unit, gang suppression unit, gang task force, or simply a gang unit, among many other terms) is an American law enforcement unit tasked with investigating, suppressing, and ...
Renault Alvin Robinson (September 8, 1942 – July 8, 2023) was an American police officer who served at the Chicago Police Department from 1964 to 1983. Robinson served as chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority under the leadership of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington from August 1983 until January 1987.
On August 13, 2023, HBO released a limited documentary series entitled Telemarketers, which stars two office employees turned gonzo-journalists, Patrick J Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern, as they reveal a billion dollar donation scam perpetrated against the American public by the largest police union in America, The Fraternal Order of Police. [84] [85]
Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850 – Chicago had a population of 80,000 people, but the city had no police force, only nine "watch marshals". [2] 1855 – The city had a bare-bones police force. [2] 1850s (late) – Because Chicago was built over a swamp, mud constantly oozed from beneath the city's wooden streets.
The Afro-American Patrolmen's League, now known as the African American Police League, was established in 1968 after Chicago police officer Edward "Buzz" Palmer witnessed the effects of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's "shoot to kill" order brought on by Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the increase of black uprisings that followed his death.