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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.
The pay scale was originally created with the purpose of keeping federal salaries in line with equivalent private sector jobs. Although never the intent, the GS pay scale does a good job of ensuring equal pay for equal work by reducing pay gaps between men, women, and minorities, in accordance with another, separate law, the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
Prior to the formation of their own law enforcement agency, roughly around the 1850s, Union Pacific contracted with the North-Western Police Agency, later known as Pinkerton. [1] The UPPD itself originates with the Union Pacific Secret Services, the original law enforcement agency responsible for protecting Union Pacific trains and facilities. [2]
Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
He faces an Aug. 12 deadline to select the next leader of the Chicago Police Department from a list of three finalists handed to him earlier this month. If he decides none of the candidates fit ...
Dolton trustees have hired former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a special investigator, to be paid $400 an hour and tasked with probing spending habits of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard. The ...
The Pinkerton Story, James David Horan, Howard Swiggett 1951. Allan Pinkerton: America's First Private Eye, Dodd, New York: Mead, 1963. The Pinkertons: The Detective Dynasty That Made History, James D. Horan, New York: Crown Publishers, 1967. The Eye That Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Frank Morn, 1982.
Man charged for killing Chicago cop. The Chicago Police Department has announced charges against a 23-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a police officer.