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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state. These agencies employed 81,196 sworn peace officers, about 244 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
In 1945, membership was open to individuals who worked full-time for enforcement agencies or as instructors in police training courses in state colleges. [1] When the School of Criminology was established at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950, the group decided to expand its membership to criminal justice students and chartered the ...
Marie Owens is believed to be the first professional police woman in the United States, joining the Chicago Police Department in 1891. [6] Other early police officers include Alice Stebbins Wells , commissioned as an officer in 1910 in Los Angeles, and Lola Baldwin , an early policewoman working for the Portland Police Department on women's and ...
The Texas State Police (TSP) is a defunct 19th century law enforcement agency that was created following the Civil War by order of Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis. The TSP worked primarily against racially based crimes in Texas , and included black policemen.
The Sigma Chi house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, c. 1905. Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell as the result of a disagreement over who would be elected Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society of Miami University in Ohio.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Texas Sigma: 1994–2003, 2012 Active [32] Sigma Chi: Theta Tau: 1986–1999; 2009 Active [33] [l] Sigma Nu: Eta Tau: 1966 Active [34] [m] Sigma Phi Epsilon: Texas Tau: 1981–1997 Inactive Sigma Pi: Theta Upsilon: 2006–2010 Inactive Sigma Tau Gamma: Delta Epsilon: 1983–2019 Inactive Tau Kappa Epsilon: Xi Xi: 1972 ...
What sets the Texas case apart, however, is that the women are believed to be the first in the U.S. to sue a state and testify over being denied abortion following newly enacted bans.
Governor Edmund J. Davis, in order to combat crime statewide in Texas, formed the Texas Special Police on July 22, 1870 [2] There were 30 Special Police Officers (SPO) assigned as auxiliary officers throughout the state. [2] On April 22, 1873, the law authorizing the state police was repealed by the newly elected Democrat controlled state ...