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Houston blue : the story of the Houston Police Department /
Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation's largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, au...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, TX :
University of North Texas Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | North Texas crime and criminal justice series ;
no. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Baghdad on the bayou
- Houston, USA
- Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of HPD
- Houston's crime problem
- The marshal becomes the chief
- Murder was in the air
- The bloodiest day
- HPD and the Klan
- The Prohibition years
- Reorganization
- Percy Heard and the war years
- Post-War HPD
- The old gray fox's whim
- Secret leaders and 1269m
- A sergeant becomes chief
- Political winds
- Herman B. Short
- Conflict at Texas Southern
- The successor
- All 7's
- Buffalo hunters and a union
- Darkest day
- The drill instructor
- Hispanics stand tall
- The outsider
- Neighborhood-oriented policing
- Betsy and the poster boy
- The man in the uniform 437
- Hans Marticiuc and greater benefits
- The chief from Phoenix
- An insider and new trust
- Appendix 1: Fallen heroes of HPD
- Appendix 2: Houston mayors and police chiefs, 1837/2012
- Appendix 3: HPOA/HPOU presidents.