| Houston Police Department Contributor(s): Kennedy, Tom (Author), Brown Phd, Lee (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0738595357 ISBN-13: 9780738595351 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Political Science | Law Enforcement |
| Dewey: 976.4 |
| LCCN: 2011943059 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.62" W x 9.27" (0.69 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Houston, Texas - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Kennedy, Tom: - Tom Kennedy, columnist of the late Houston Post and a Baylor University journalism alumnus, has served as editor of the Houston Police Officers Union Badge & Gun since 2002. Kennedy compiled this photograph-laden book replete with colorful details about the characters, personalities, and celebrated cases that have affected one of the nation s leading policing agencies. |