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Monkkonen, Eric H. Police in Urban America, 1860-1920 (2004). Richardson, James F. "To Control the City: The New York Police in Historical Perspective." In Cities in American History, eds. Kenneth T. Jackson and Stanley K. Schultz (1972) pp: 3-13. Richardson, James F. The New York Police, Colonial Times to 1901 (Oxford University Press, 1970)
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.
In North America, the Toronto Police was founded in Canada in 1834, one of the first municipal police departments on that continent, followed by police forces in Montreal and Quebec City both founded in 1838. In the United States, the first organized police service was established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854.
Stewart moved west to California, where he joined the LA Police force in 1889. [1] [2] He worked at the LAPD until May, 1900, when he was accused by a white teenager of sexual assault, and arrested. [1] [2] While he was awaiting trial, the police commission voted to fire him. [1] [2] A trial jury later heard the sexual assault charges, and ...
[5] [2] He was the first Italian language speaker in the NYPD's history. At 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m), he had to get a waiver of the department's minimum height requirement. He became friends with Theodore Roosevelt, who was a member of the council of police commissioners which governed the NYPD. Fluent in several Italian dialects, Petrosino was ...
The first video begins at 8.24pm, and shows a police officer arrive at the intersection of East Raines and Ross Rds where several officers are shouting expletives at Nichols to get out of his car.
First attested in English in the early 15th century, originally in a range of senses encompassing '(public) policy; state; public order', the word police comes from Middle French police ('public order, administration, government'), [10] in turn from Latin politia, [11] which is the romanization of the Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia) 'citizenship, administration, civil polity'. [12]
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