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The New York cops: an informal history (1971). Berman, Jay Stuart. Police administration and progressive reform: Theodore Roosevelt as police commissioner of New York (Greenwood Press, 1987) Chin, Gabriel Jackson, ed. New York City Police Corruption Investigation Commissions, 1894-1994 (WS Hein, 1997)
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23, 1845, the NYPD is the largest, and one of the oldest, municipal police departments in the United States. [7]
The New York State Police (NYSP) is the state police of the U.S. state of New York; it is part of the New York State Executive Department and employs over 5,000 sworn state troopers and 711 non-sworn members.
The New York City Police Riot of 1857, known at the time as the Great Police Riot, was a conflict which occurred in front of New York City Hall between the recently-dissolved New York Municipal Police and the newly-formed Metropolitan Police on June 16, 1857.
The formation of the New Orleans Police Department was first recorded in 1796, during the administration of Baron Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet. The account said, "Crime had reached such proportions by the mid-1790s that a full-time city police force was required." [5] The New Orleans police were highly militarized from the late 1700s ...
Retired as one of the most decorated officers in New York City Police Department history, and received the police department’s Medal of Honor (its highest award) and the National Police Officers Association of America’s Medal of Valor, after killing two people who attacked him, and being injured 11 times in the line of duty; Later elected ...
The Colt New Police is a double-action, six-shot revolver (which can also be fired single action). This gun was chambered in the .32 New Police, which is very similar to the .32 S&W Long . [ 1 ] In addition to the .32 New Police cartridge, the revolver was available in 32 Colt.
The Hofstadter Committee, also known as the Seabury investigations, was a joint legislative committee formed by the New York State Legislature to probe police and judicial corruption in New York City in 1931. Prompted by allegations of corruption in police and court systems, the Hofstadter Committee heard testimony from a thousand citizens ...