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Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department
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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, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
Roth, Mitchel P.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Ed. 1 Monday, November 26, 2012
Student newspaper from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
November 26, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 91, Number 1, November 2012
Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases. Topics in this issue covers an address by Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court's contemporary silver platter doctrine, how the first amendment destabilizes the second, defense witness immunity, and technology at the Supreme Court.
Date:
November 2012
Creator:
Texas Law Review Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 218, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
November 7, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 91, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 11, 2012
Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 11, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 255, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 11, 2012
Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 11, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 2012
Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 1, 2012
Creator:
Reddell, Valerie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 2012
Weekly newspaper from Hondo, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 22, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History