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American Police: A History, 1845-1945

Thomas A. Reppetto

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Description:From its beginnings in eighteenth-century London, this is the history of the largest urban police departments in the United States and a social portrait of America during the first century of its existence. From the birth of the New York City Police Department in 1845 to the end of World War II, each city had its share of crime, murders, vice, drug dealers, and addicts.Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles each had their own history and developed in different ways according to local and tough cops like Captain William "Clubber" Williams, Johnny "the Boff" Broderick, and John Cordes.It is also the history of crime over the course of a century that transformed the United States from a former colony of the British Empire to a powerful and restless nation poised for spectacular growth.Thomas A. Reppetto, a former commander of detectives, is the author of NYPD and American Mafia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Police: A History, 1845-1945. To get started finding American Police: A History, 1845-1945, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From its beginnings in eighteenth-century London, this is the history of the largest urban police departments in the United States and a social portrait of America during the first century of its existence. From the birth of the New York City Police Department in 1845 to the end of World War II, each city had its share of crime, murders, vice, drug dealers, and addicts.Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles each had their own history and developed in different ways according to local and tough cops like Captain William "Clubber" Williams, Johnny "the Boff" Broderick, and John Cordes.It is also the history of crime over the course of a century that transformed the United States from a former colony of the British Empire to a powerful and restless nation poised for spectacular growth.Thomas A. Reppetto, a former commander of detectives, is the author of NYPD and American Mafia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Police: A History, 1845-1945. To get started finding American Police: A History, 1845-1945, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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