Research Catalog
Houston Police Department
- Title
- Houston Police Department / Tom Kennedy ; foreword by Lee Brown.
- Author
- Kennedy, Tom, 1946-
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HV8148.H732 K46 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brown, Lee P.
- Description
- 127 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Houston Police Force was established by the naming of a city marshal in January 1841. Houston Police Department historian Denny Hair wrote, "As befitted a frontier community, the meeting of justice in Houston was swift and uncompromising. Trials were conducted in an informal manner with little attention paid to formal rules of evidence and legal procedure." Eventually, conditions changed and law enforcement became more sophisticated. The "Bayou City" population went from 44,633 in 1900 to almost 1 million by 1960. "Houston" was the first word spoken from the moon, thus it became "Space City" and, ultimately, the nation's fourth-largest city. Its police department weathered decades of mayoral appointment for every officer before state civil service reform in the 1940s. It also met the civil rights years better than most cities and saw dramatic change with the 1982 appointment of Lee Brown as the first African American police chief of a large American city.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- The early years -- Turn of the century -- HPD in training -- Wheels, hooves, and blades -- On duty -- Preserving and protecting -- Personalities -- Meeting and conferring -- Serving with Honor -- Fallen Heroes of the Houston Police Department.
- ISBN
- 9780738595351
- 0738595357
- LCCN
- 2011943059
- OCLC
- ocn769988350
- 769988350
- SCSB-9470254
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library