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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
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The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 239, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
June 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 341, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
August 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
February 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rice Thresher, Vol. 99, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date:
May 15, 2012
Creator:
Gupta, Ryan & Brown, Seth
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 79, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
March 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 499, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 340, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
August 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
February 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
February 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 342, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
August 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 240, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
June 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 181, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
May 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 500, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
March 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 182, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
May 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 501, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 238, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
June 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 81, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 2012
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
March 15, 2012
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 2012
Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
Samuels, Jeanne F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 2012
Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 15, 2012
Creator:
Samuels, Jeanne F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 162, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 15, 2012
Creator:
Gray, Janie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 140, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 15, 2012
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 15, 2012
Creator:
Gray, Janie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 11, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 15, 2012
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 15, 2012
Creator:
Yanelli, Adam
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History