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The English police: A political and social history (2014). Lyman, J.L. "The Metropolitan Police Act of 1829: An Analysis of Certain Events Influencing the Passage and Character of the Metropolitan Police Act in England," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science (1964) 55#1 pp. 141–154 online; Taylor, James.
Douglas G. Browne, The Rise of Scotland Yard: A History of the Metropolitan Police (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1956). Clive Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History (London: Routledge, 1996). Gary Mason, The Official History of the Metropolitan Police (London: Carlton Books Ltd, 2004).
As the patrons stood on the street police attempted to arrest a young man for stealing a car. The young man had a broken arm in a cast and the onlookers accused the police of brutality in the arrest. The next night rioters began using Molotov cocktails to burn down businesses and houses. White vigilantes took to the streets to counter the ...
Among the largest questions remaining about the Department of Justice's civil probe into the city's police department is the reason it began. Timeline of events preceding DOJ scrutiny of police ...
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) Thale, Christopher. "The Informal World of Police Patrol: New York City in the Early Twentieth Century," Journal of Urban History (2007) 33#2 pp 183–216.
The advent of the police car, two-way radio, and telephone in the early 20th century transformed policing into a reactive strategy that focused on responding to calls for service. [24] In the 1920s, led by Berkeley, California, police chief, August Vollmer, police began to professionalize, adopt new technologies, and place emphasis on training ...
The history of the Houston Police Department started with the founding of the City of Houston.While the department's beginning was humble, it grew more advanced as technology became available and was able to handle the various challenges that would plague various cities as well as some of the more distinctive aspects of its geography.
This undated photo released by the New York Police Department shows a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, in a taxi.