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Motors Unit
Sunday, 05 January 2020 05:05
Baltimore's was organized on May 29, 1914, consisting of 5 members of the department.
From L-R: Patrolman Schleigh, Bateman, Pepersack, Vocke, Louis. Patrolman George J. Louis would rise through the ranks of Sergeant, Lieutenant to become the commander of the unit.
The Baltimore Police Department's Motor's Unit was formed on 29 May 1914 with 5 Indian twin cylinder motorcycles. Their main duty was to chase down speeding horse-drawn vehicles but that quickly changed with the growing number of automobiles. The unit has been in continuous operation since 1914. In the beginning, they worked out of the Districts but in the 1930's they were reassigned to the newly formed Traffic Division, and were designated as the Traffic Enforcement Section, Motorcycle Unit (the division also had a parking control unit, a foot traffic unit that directed traffic downtown, and an accident investigation unit). The number of officers has risen and fallen several times due to finances, or safety issues but is alive and well today. The recently appointed commissioner is from California and he is a supporter of s. Harley Davidson is the only brand used today and has been since 1920 when a Harley shop opened in Baltimore. The department used Cushmans, and small Hondas but these were used for foot beat officers to get to their posts.
Designed by Ret Det Kenny Driscoll for use in Celebrating
The 100th Anniversary of BPD's Motor Unit
Pedro Vargas
Courtesy McKinley Smith
December 2018
Courtesy McKinley Smith
December 2018
Courtesy McKinley Smith
December 2018
Designed by Ret Det Kenny Driscoll for use in Celebrating
The 100th Anniversary of BPD's Motor Unit
As you can see Ken made an "Open Winged" and a "Closed Winged" version
P/O Thomas Gay Sr.
The patch seen most often worn by members of the "Motors Unit" depicting a "Wheel" with an "Arrow" and "Wings", has long been said to stand for the riders as being "Straight as an Arrow" and "Free as a Bird"
Courtesy JoAnn Oliphant Voelker
1972 Motors Unit
Left to Right. Sgt. Unk. - Officer Ronald Neff - Officer Charles Richter - Unkown Officer - Officer James Pate - Officer Arthur "Otts" Bailey - Unknown officer - Officer Richard Bernhart - Officer Robert Gay - Sgt. Michael Timchula.
Courtesy Cliff Keerans
Courtesy Cliff Keerans
P/O Ernie Keerans was better known as "Grey Hairs."
Courtesy Cliff Keerans
Courtesy Cliff Keerans
Courtesy Bill Bowen
Elmer Bowen and Unknown Partner 1940's
Courtesy John Heiderman
Pennewell 1958
This is not a Baltimore Motorcycle and Sidecar
It is, however, a 1919 Indian with Sidecar
Police Issue of the type, we would have Used
Motor Police Named
20 March 1919 [Thursday]
24 Will Compose New Division for Patrolling Annex
System Effective Today
Plan to Put Young Men in Charge of Machine Necessitate Many Transfers
Twenty-four motorcycle patrolmen, composing the new motor division for policing the Annex. were named to the Police Board yesterday by Marshall Carter upon the recommendation of Deputy Marshal House and at the same time, a score of transfers of patrolman from their old districts to the Annex was officially made by the board. The transferred became necessary to execute the plans of the Police Board and placing young, efficient men in charge of the motorcycles equipped with sidecars.
The last vestige of former county policing will disappear today [Thursday - 20 Mar 1919} when the three-shift system of duty will extend to the entire “territory of the Annex. A number of city sergeants have been assigned to Annex bailiwicks. The sergeants named for this work include Thomas J. Ferris, Eastern District: George W. Vance, Northwestern District, and Frank Gatch, Northeastern District.
“We have arranged to place 60 men in the Annexed territory,” said Marshall Carter last night, “and the new system will go into effect tomorrow. [Friday, 21 March 1919] everything is in readiness, the motorcycles have been received and the men have been broken in sufficiently to warrant the installation of the system planned several weeks ago. There will be 24 motorcycle patrolman who will patrol fix posts located in the Northwestern, Northern and Northeastern suburbs of the city, and the hours of duty have been mapped out in a manner which will give the maximum amount of protection with a force of men one-half in number required for the policing of such a widespread territory. Within a week or two, the department will be in a position to open the outer early sections to telephone communication at certain booths. The telephone number of the booth nearest the resident of a given post will be placed in the possession of every resident in, and the hours agreed upon are such that to patrolman will be on duty on one post continually for 24 hours of the day.”
The assignments to the Annex are as follows
Northwestern – Sgt. Vance and Motorcycle Patrolman Clarence Lawman, John E. Schueler, Martin Ruppert, Frank E. Herryman, Edward C. Shellito and Harry G Griese. Patrolman Kleeman will continue foot duty at West Arlington.
Northeastern – Sgt. Gatch and Motorcycle Patrolman George Busick, John Duff, Henry Nuth, trolls a. Muth, Harry L. Baker, and Claude Twigg.
Northern – August H. Bierman, Chas W. Moore and Charles M. Smith with Mounted Men Patrolman Joseph A. Buroch, Henry C. Moore, Gustav A. Romoser and John E. Porter. Patrolman Jehu Rutledge will continue his duty at Roland Park.
Southern – Sgt. Helmer, Motorcycle Patrolman W. C. Lederer, James D. Harris, Frank Lovett, George T. Cook and seven patrolmen.
Southwestern – Sgt. Bealefeld and Motorcycle Patrolman Joseph C. Schaefer and George L. Marburger. Patrolman Moeller and McConkey will continue his foot duties
Eastern – Sergeants Ferris, Hesse and Feehley, Motorcycle Patrolman Thomas P. Arthur and George Pilsch and fifteen patrolmen.
Motors Sketch
Jan 12, 1921
Motorcycle Side - Cars New Crime Deterrent
The Sun (1837-1989); pg. 16
Motorcycle Side-Cars New Crime Deterrent Latest Police Vehicles to Have Hand and Foot Cuffs Attached To Secure Prisoners.
A measure intended as a deterrent to crime waves is about to be adopted by the Baltimore police department – in the form of a motorcycle side-car.
In New York, they recently equipped the police department with side-car motorcycles, and more than 20 sergeants have applied for retirement. The sidecars were provided for the sergeants to ride in. In Baltimore, the sidecars are for criminals.
To make the deterrent stronger, the Baltimore sidecars are to be equipped with handcuffs and foot cuffs [leg-irons]. They have the effect of locking the criminal securely to the side-car.
Not only will a criminal be unable to escape while going around a curve at 70 miles an hour, but he will not be jarred loose by collisions with stone walls, telephone poles, storefronts or furniture van. In the case of an accident, the motorcycle rider may leap and possibly save himself, but the criminal will, in every case, go down with his side-car.
In all, 136 of these side-car motorcycles are expected in Baltimore within the next week or two. They will be distributed among the six police districts recently increased in size by annexation.
Baltimore Sun Paper pic - Photographer Carl Harris
Cycling Blue-Jacket
The police department is trying out three new Honda cycles for use in the city parks and high traffic areas. It plans to buy 22 of the two-wheelers if they are found suitable for the job. The cycles, which cost $350 each, are intended to beef up patrols in the parks and can travel just about anywhere a man can walk you. Seated on the bike is Officer Thomas Keavney Central Operations unit 1973
Baltimore City Police Officer on one of the first motorcycles used in Baltimore.
In just a few short years the unit more than doubled. The is seen here in Druid Hill Park. c. 1916
Patrolman George J. Louis is operating the bike on the far left
Motor-Cycle Police Equipped With Automatic Speed Witness
11 April 1928
Old newspaper Stories of the Times - Apr 11, 1928; pg. 3
When you hear the sharp blast of the policeman’s whistle and you pull to the side of the road after slowing down from the 35 or 40 miles an hour you were driving, do not prepare that familiar old refrain, “officer I was only going 12 or 15 miles.”
This old, old story, which is falling on the ears of traffic patrolman since the birth of the “horseless carriage” and speed laws, will avail to motorists nothing as far as Baltimore’s traffic police are concerned.
New speedometer used
They are prepared to “storm and was figures, which everyone says, never lie. The way in which they will do it will be through a newly perfected speedometer, with which the majority of the traffic division’s motorcycles have been equipped.
It is a simple device, much like any other speedometer, except that pressure of a little button stops it from registering and retains on the dial the rate of speed at which the machine was going.
Thus, the motorcycle patrolman paces of the motorists until he goes faster than the law permits, pushes the button on the Speedometer and when he pulls up he has something tangible to put before him, or her, as the case may be.
Explains “Automatic Witness.”
Capt. Hamilton R Atkinson, of the traffic division, explains the new “automatic witness” yesterday and the use to which it is being put by his men.
“We have found it of great benefit so far,” he said, “as it gives the policeman something concrete to which to base his charge of speeding.”
The state police will make trial tests of the new devices for speedometers, E. Austin Baughman, Commissioner of motor vehicles, announces
The unit continues to grow in size as the department realizes the motor officers are becoming a valuable asset. c. 1920's.
Photo courtesy Lt. Janet Ensor, Baltimore Co. Police
Lieutenant George J. Louis, Commander of the Department's
Photo courtesy Raymond K. Miles Jr.
Officer Raymond K. Miles, pictured above and below, served in the motorcycle unit for three years 1932-1935
Photo courtesy Raymond K. Miles Jr.
Photo courtesy Raymond K. Miles Jr.
Photo courtesy Lt. Janet Ensor, Baltimore Co. Police
Lieutenant George J. Louis, Commander of the Department's , January 9, 1942
Lieutenant George J. Louis, Commander of the Department's , January 9, 1942
Officer Joseph Ireton Rial patrolled the streets of Baltimore City for most of his career on a motorcycle.
Motorcycle crew, B-Division, in front of the headquarters building
October 21, 1940
Motorcycle Division, 7:30 am. Section, in front of the Headquarters Building October 24, 1940
1950's
Photo courtesy of Nancy Crane-Bentz Officer Eugene Crane on the left escorting movie star Molly Goldberg with another officer (name unknown) and Molly's husband while on a visit to Baltimore.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Crane-Bentz Baltimore Police Presidential detail being greeted by President John F. Kennedy during the 1960's Officer Eugene Crane is positioned the 5th officer from the left
Officer William Weiss and Gene Autry
1952
Officer Sinnott
Officer Ray Unger, 1967 on his "Motor" on the ramp of the old Headquarters building 601 E. Fayette St.
1960's three-wheeler used in traffic enforcement in the downtown area
Sergeant Richard D. Taylor
Photo courtesy Officer Lawrence Merrifield
Officer Lawrence Merrifield 1964
Officer Charles Alfinito
BPD Motor Officer 1977
Motorcycle license plates used during the 1960’s
Photo Shot and Painted June 2014
Photo Shot June 2014
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Photo Shot June 2014
Photo Shot June 2014
Photo Shot June 2014
Photo Shot June 2014
Robert Harrison
Robert Harrison
Photo Courtesy Officer Dave Eastman
Headquarters circa 1976
Headquarters circa 1976
Retired Officer Dave Eastman relates:
When I went to motors, they had 1968 models. They had the radio in the box on the back and the speaker and microphone were mounted between the handlebars. They were the old 150 band radios. We had gone to the 450 band radios ( the walkie-talkies) but we could still use the 150s because communications were not fully converted to the 450. The '64s were a dark silver with black trim. They were the first ones with chrome rather than painted wheels. I don't believe they had two-way radios and I think the guy's call box theory is correct. In the old days, the department had lots of motormen and they worked three shifts. The midnight shift had two motormen teamed up in a car. They did not ride motors late at night. If you look at that one photo, they are all motor officer, over 50 of them. they all took the wires out of there hats and had that "50 mission" crush. They said it prevented the wind from blowing their hats off but I think it was just to look cool. They wore the blue hats back then. Major "Box" Harris, who was beloved by all, was appointed by Commissioner Pomerleau to be chief of traffic even though he was never a cop. He had the division go to all white hats sometime in the late 60's. Motormen also did not wear high boots, but rather high topped shoes and "puttees". which were leather and wrapped around the calf. They were held in place by two buckles and joined the high topped shoes at the ankle. One of the unique features of the Baltimore Police motorcycles were the foot clutch and the tank or side shift. The officer worked the clutch with his left for and shifted gears with his left hand. You can see the shift lever in the photos. Many officers had billiard balls ( number 8 being the most popular) drilled and tapped to screw on the shift lever. Also, in the photos, you can see the siren mounted just behind the officers' left foot. To activate the siren, the officer would stomp on a lever which made the siren shaft rub against the rear tire. This made the siren scream and they were quite loud. Every once in a while the shaft would actually go through the side of the tire causing a blowout, not a good thing when you are chasing a speeding car! If you notice, the older motor officers had leather coats. Commissioner Pomerleau did not like leather coats and took them away from the motor and mounted officers. They got them back after Pomerleau retired.
"Motorcops" 1975 at the opening of the Jones Falls y Lt.Tom Douglas
Agent Tom Douglas
Courtesy Lt.Tom Douglas
Officer Gueydan
Courtesy Lt. Tom Douglas
Courtesy Lt.Tom Douglas
(Above) Agent Tom Douglas shooting RADAR
(Below) Officers Mike DeHaven, Norman Stamp and Officer Tom Richburg
Courtesy Lt.Tom Douglas
Officer Tom Douglas & Officer Norman Stamp
Courtesy Lt.Tom Douglas
Agent Tom Douglas directing ball game traffic at 33rd. & Charles St.
Sergeant Tom Douglas at the Statehouse with the Governor
Photo courtesy Officer Scott Thomas
Officer Scott Thomas participating in the Motorcycle Rodeo
Photo courtesy Officer Scott Thomas
Officer Scott Thomas on the left, Officer Bill Council on the right, & Hallet Davenport between them accepting trophies at the rodeo dinner.
Officer Scott Thomas on the left, & Hallet Davenport accepting trophies at the rodeo dinner.
Motorcycle team presenting the 1st Place trophy to the Commissioner Edward Tilghman
Photo courtesy Officer Tom Bailey
Officer Hal Davenport & Officer Tom Bailey
Officer Hal Davenport & Officer Tom Bailey
1980
Photo courtesy Officer Tom Bailey
Officer Tom Bailey with Memorial Stadium in the background
1980
COURTESY RETIRED OFFICER DAVID EASTMAN
Officer Gary Green on the motor and K9 Officer Dave Gunter with K9 "TSAR" 1981
Officer Gary Green on the motor and K9 Officer Dave Gunter with K9 "TSAR" 1981
Lieutenant Anthony Brown
1969 Harley Davidson used by Officer Milton Krysztofiak when he was first assigned to Motors in 1980. It was equipped with a side shift and the foot clutch. As Officer Dave Eastman mentions the pool ball on top of the shift, Milt got the “Q” ball. Below is a photo of some of the motormen after completing an escort of Vice President Al Gore at Fort McHenry. The Officers from left to right are Officer Milton Krysztofiak, shaking Al Gore's hand, next to him is Officer Gary Green, then Officer Tony Brown, and Sergeant Tom Joyce.
Photo courtesy Officer John Emrick
Pictured from left to right are Officer Andy Girodano of TES, Officer Bob Frisch of TES and Officer Tony Petralia
Photo courtesy Officer Milton Krysztofiak
A few of the motormen after completing an escort of Vice President Al Gore at Fort McHenry. The Officers from left to right are, Officer Milton Krysztofiak, shaking Al Gore's hand, Officer Gary Green, Officer Tony Brown, and Sgt. Tom Joyce
Photo courtesy Officer Milton Krysztofiak
Reba McEntire, reigning Queen of country music, was escorted by a few of Baltimore’s finest motor officers after an appearance at the Baltimore Arena. The photo was taken at BWI outside Reba's private jet. From left to right, Officer Dave Jones, Officer Milton Krysztofiak, Reba McEntire, Officer Mike Brandt and Officer Tom Joyce.
Below photo taken at the University of Maryland Baltimore County at the awards ceremony for Special Olympics. Baltimore City Police motor officers were invited to give out the medals. From Left to right, Officer Michael Brandt, Officer Milton Krysztofiak, Officer Dave Jones, Sergeant Tom Joyce, and Off. Bill Edgar.
Photo courtesy Officer Milton Krysztofiak
Above photograph was taken at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County at the awards ceremony for Special Olympics. Baltimore City Police motor officers were invited to give out the medals.
Officer Michael Brandt, Officer Milton Krysztofiak, Officer Dave Jones, Sergeant Tom Joyce and Officer Bill Edgar.
Courtesy Sergeant John Sharp
Sergeant John Sharp by the Inner Harbor on one of the old side shifter bikes, around 1988.
TES (Motors) won the Mid-Atlantic Motorcycle Rodeo, first place team
Commissioner Edward Tilghman holding the trophy on the left and Officer Hallet Davenport on the right. Officer Scott Thomas and Officer Norman Stamp is next to the Commissioner, Sergeant Tom Joyce next to Officer Davenport, Officer Debbie Fox, and Mike Dehaven,
Back row: Officer Claud Thornton, Officer Bobbie Joe Dorton, Sergeant Sharp behind the trophy, and Officer Bill Council is behind Sergeant Joyce.
Sergeant John Sharp with new Police Bike on Opening Day for the new stadium, April 1992.
Officer Milton Krysztofiak taking Pope John Paul II’s hand just before kissing his ring. This Photo was taken in 1995 outside of St. Mary's Seminary just before he got on the helicopter to fly to the airport. Maryland State Police Major Johnny Hughes looks on.
The above photograph was taken at The Basilica on Charles St. three motor officers standing next to the pope mobile. The Officers are from left to right, Officer Lonnie Ludtke, Officer Milton Krysztofiak and Officer Gary Green
Lieutenant Gutberlet (Colonel) with the Pope mobile
Lt. Carl Guiberlet holding the SUPER BOWL TROPHY
2004 Harley Davidson Motorcycle on Baltimore's Federal Hill overlooking Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
L/R Ofc. Brian Weber, Sgt. David Munyan, Ofc. Eric Dawson, Ofc. Bravett Bull & Ofc. Bryan Curran
Photo Courtesy Sergeant David Munyan
2004 BPD Harley Davidson on Federal Hill overlooking Baltimore’s Harbor Place
Photo Courtesy Sergeant David Munyan
Motor Sergeant. David Munyan (Left) & Officer Lonnie Luedtke (right)
Photo was taken at Oriole Park @ Camden yards in Aug of 2000
Motor Sergeant. David Munyan (Left) & Officer Lonnie Luedtke (right)
Photo was taken at Oriole Park @ Camden yards in Aug of 2000
Sergeant David Munyan and his squad with Rocker Ted Nugent
Sergeant David Munyan greats Rocker Ted Nugent during his tour in Baltimore, August 18, 2002
Photo Courtesy Sergeant David Munyan
Wynonna Judd in Baltimore with Baltimore’s Finest
Wynonna poses on a Baltimore Police Motorcycle with Sergeant David Munyan and Lieutenant (Retired as a Colonel) Carl Guiberlet looking on. “Tough job guys
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Robert H Gordon
Courtesy Patty as a Gift for Our 30th Wedding Anniversary
BPD Front Fender
Courtesy Patty as a Gift for Our 30th Wedding Anniversary
BPD Saddle Bag
Photo Courtesy Sergeant David Munyan
Sergeant David Munyan and his daughter Delaney
Officer Bob Brown in the blue T-shirt looks on
Photo Courtesy of Sgt. Nick Caprinolo
A Promotion at the Lexington Market around 2000 entitled "Lunch With the Elephants, showing the motor men joking around with the clowns
Baltimore Police Department's new fleet of MOTORS 2004
Parade in downtown Baltimore
Officer Tim Hughes
Officer Tim Hughes
Below are some gloves used by our Motors unit recovered out of the old Headquarters building during the move back between the early 70’s and mid 80’s – One pair has the Officers name inside.
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Honesty
1940 - 1960
Saturday, 04 January 2020 04:34
1940 - 1960
FOOT TRAFFIC UNIT OCTOBER 1940
Baltimore Police display 1940's
Officer John F. Zaloudek 1940's
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| COURTESY JOSEPH PEIGHTEL |
Police Officer Charles R. Ernest (Bud) and his wife Dorothy (Dots) 1940's.
He lived on a little street in South Baltimore called Ramsey Street, and both Bud and Dot’s grew up in that neighborhood.
Bud earned a Purple Heart fighting in the Philippines during WWII but managed to make his way home. He went on to become a Baltimore City Police Officer, and you can see in the picture, that he towered over his wife. Bud was over 6 feet tall. Bud was a huge tease and loved to laugh and make people laugh. He was incredibly detail oriented and organized as you might expect in a Police Officer.
Officer Ernest was struck on Saturday, June 13, 1964, and succumbed to injuries on Wednesday, January 20, 1965. He was crushed between two cars while directing traffic at the scene of an accident at the intersection of Pearl Street and Saratoga Street. Officer Ernest's partner was interviewing the drivers involved in the accident as Officer Ernest was directing traffic around the two vehicles. His partner requested that one of the drivers move his vehicle out of the travel lane. As the man attempted to do so, he inadvertently put the car in drive instead of the reverse. The car lurched forward and pinned Officer Ernest and a citizen between the two cars. Both men sustained broken hips and other injuries. Officer Ernest remained at home on sick leave as a result of his injuries for 221 days. A blood clot, which had formed as a result of the injuries, moved to his heart, causing him to go into cardiac arrest. He was transported to a local hospital where he died a short time later.
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| Photo courtesy Norma Spencer Johnson |
Norman T. Spencer, who was one of the first Black detectives on the Baltimore City Police force.
Sgt. Norman T. Spencer seen here as one of the Baltimore Police Special Officers commissioned by the City of Baltimore.
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1940
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Officer John Smith Southern District
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Officer Barton Rictor and Officer Sherman Riggin
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Patrolman Edward McCarron
January 11, 1940
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POLICEMAN STABBED ON STREET, DIES
William L. Ryan, Dying, Fires At Assailant But Misses
Witnesses Capture Man, Who Shouts For "Liberty and Peace”
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Patrolman William L. Ryan
STABBING-Patrolman Ryan was fatally stabbed today in the first block South Gay Street. Wilcox, an engineer, brought down his assailant with a flying tackle and helped to hold him until other police arrived. Patrolman William L. Ryan, a member of the Police Department since 1921, was fatally stabbed on Gay Street, near Baltimore, today by a man who was taken to the Central Police Station alternately fighting furiously and praying, "O Lord God, give me liberty and peace." Ryan, lying on the sidewalk, had fired two shots at his assailant, but both missed. The man was brought down with a flying tackle by Perry Wilcox, an engineer, and was held by Wilcox, other civilians and two firemen from No. 1 engine house until several policemen arrived and disarmed him. Butcher Knife Used His weapon. they said, was a butcher knife with a ten-inch blade. At Mercy Hospital, where Ryan was pronounced dead on arrival, it was stated that the blade had pierced his heart. He had suffered three puncture wounds to the chest and abdomen, the hospital report said, in the region of the heart and liver. It was Wilcox who called the officer's attention to the man and the knife. The engineer, who lives at 3303 Northern Parkway, said he had made some purchases at an electrical supply shop at 5 South Gay Street and that as he emerged and crossed the street he passed the man, lounging against the front of Grace and Hope Mission next door to the engine house. "Stabbed Without A Word,"He noticed, that the man had the knife in his hand. "Just as I got to him," said Wilcox, "he asked me, what do you want?' I told him, I didn't want anything and went on down the street. "A little farther, on I met Officer Ryan walking north, and told him about the fellow. Ryan started up to him and I followed. "As Ryan reached him he said, 'What's the matter, and without saying anything in reply the other drew back and plunged the knife into the officer's breast. Then he broke into a run. Shots Went Wide As Ryan lay on the sidewalk with a bloodstain spreading over the front of his clothes, he managed to get his gun out and fired, but the shots went wild. "I ran after the fellow and got him around the knees." Wilcox was having considerable trouble holding his captive and George W. Green, of 4917 Midwood Avenue, several other civilians, and Henry Fidler and Joseph Paulus, firemen from the engine house went to his aid. They said that although their prisoner was a man of only about 140 pounds, he "fought like a maniac and they were unable to get the knife away from him. It was not wrested from him until Detective Lieutenant Louis Kotmair, Sergeant Donald Madigan and Patrolmen Walter Geraghty and John Fox arrived. The officers handcuffed the man and he was carried through a large crowd that had been attracted by the shots and lifted yelling and screaming, into the Central district patrol. Ryan was put into a city ambulance and hurried to the hospital. At the station the prisoner first refused to answer any questions, even to state his name. The police said that in his pockets, however, they found a Social Security card bearing the name Joseph Abato and the address 1427 Gough street. Officers were sent to that address to inquire about him.
Man, Shouts, And Screams
Meanwhile, the police said, he continued to shout and scream incoherently, throwing himself on his knees to pray for "liberty, peace, and life" and begging that his handcuffs and leg irons be removed. Whenever the cuffs and irons were removed the officers said, the man renewed his fight. He is sharp-faced, with brown eyes and black hair, and was wearing a black shirt, dark trousers, and black shoes. "His forehead was cut from his fall when Wilcox tackled him. Talks For Sodaro State's Attorney J. Bernard Wells and Assistant State's Attorney Anselm Sodaro went to the station to question the man and when Sodaro addressed him in Italian, the police said his manner calmed almost instantly and he talked readily about himself. ''He said his name is Joseph Abato and that he has been living in a building in the rear of the Gough street address, working at odd jobs when he could get them and spending much of his time at the Grace and Hope Mission, especially during the evening meetings. Tells His Life Story He was born in Sicily, he said, and was brought to the United States when 2 years old. When he was 4 he went on, his parents disappeared and he was reared in a New York orphanage. During the World War he was too young to fight, he stated but served an army enlistment after the conflict. He is married and has a wife, whom he has not seen for several years, and a 4year old son, in New York. He said. his last regular job was on a tunnel project, on the new Harrisburg-Pittsburgh super-highway, near Chambersburg, Pa. It ended last September, he said and it was then that he came to Baltimore. Patrolman Ryan was 44 years old and lived at 3204 Kenyon Avenue. He was a popular officer and was known to "his acquaintances as "Larry." He was' married five years ago and his survivors, besides his widow, Margaret, are a son, "Larry" Jr. 4 years old and a daughter, Patricia Margaret, 18 months.
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Officer Winard Starkey
March 24, 1940
Courtesy Bernie Wehage
Officers Cochran and Moran at the corner of Katherine and Wilkins Ave
Southwestern District Radio Car Number 72 on 8 April 1949
Southwestern District Radio Car Number 72 on 8 April 1949
31 Aug 1954
Officer William Pillsbury
Central District
North Ave and Charles Street
Central District
North Ave and Charles Street
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Officer Garry Keil Western District April 24, 1940
Police Give “Royal Suite“
To Frolicsome Great Danes
And Now They Seek Owner Of Pair Of Pair of Dogs That Played Havoc With Traffic If you are looking for two female Great Danes they are being held in protective custody in a cell at the Western Police Station The dogs Were picked up yesterday by Patrolman Arthur C. Boston, of the traffic division, while they were romping in the middle of the intersection of Eutaw and Lexington streets between automobiles moving in all directions. when Boston saw the dogs, he scratches his head and murmured something about “Well. I’ll be… He stopped traffic that was moving all around the dogs and led them to the sidewalk where he looked for the owner. When the owner could not be found, Boston took the dogs to the Western po1ice station and presented them to the desk Lieutenant. The desk lieutenant also scratched his head, murmured something about “Well, I’ll be…… and ordered the dogs to the largest and nicest cell. The dogs were not docketed or searched. Last night Western police attempted to locate the owner of the dogs but were unsuccessful. The po1ice believe the dogs jumped out a parked car. Whenever a person entered the station house last night they were quickly led to the cell block and shown “our very fine guest.” Members of the station house contributed dimes, nickels and quarters To buy bones and raw meat for the dogs’ supper. After the Great Danes had eaten they crawled up on the bench in the cell and went to sleep.
1945
The above suspect James Smiley (15 Years Old) was arrested and held in Baltimore
He is wanted in Michigan for the Murder of his Foster-Mother Mrs. Edna Smiley
She adopted him as a child, they recently argued and he killed her with a .22 Cal. Rifle
Baltimore Police
Don New Chapeau
It may not have been designed by Schiaparelli, but Patrolman Paul E. Harman of the Central District Police Station likes his new chapeau. The dark blue octagonal cap which Patrolman Harman and all-district men on the Baltimore Police force donned at 4 pm on 7 Oct 1944, that replaces the oval-topped cap which has been the style here for a little more than 30 years. “all the men like’em” Patrolman Harman, a native Baltimorean who lives at 3212 Matson street, said, “They’re neater, lighter and they won’t blow off as easily as the old ones.” “Besides, my wife likes mine. She says it’s more becoming, and brother, that’s good enough for me. That a woman ought to know about hat’s she buys enough!” NOTE: In 1886 they went from the "Derby type hat" to the Bobby/Helmet cap, wearing a black bobby/helmet in the winter, and a grey/silver bobby/helmet in the summer. The Bobby/Helmet was worn for approx 28 years from 1886 until 1914, when they switched to the cap just before the above (current cap) it looked similar to today's cap; but was round/oval, that cap was worn from 1914 until 1944 (7 Oct 44) when they switched to the 8 point cap... the current cap of today has been worn since 1944.
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| COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN |
Baltimore City Police Safety Education Car
Belvedere and Roland Ave.
April 13, 1940
19 April 1950 Dukeland Wilkins Ave
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Officer Richard Klima, Northwest District, July 4, 1940
Sergeant Examination September 28, 1940
Officer George Waldhauser, Officer R.J. Matter, Officer H.C. Beyer, Officer A.J. Schoenhoff, Officer Walter Kuzmaul, Officer Joseph Rehak, Officer John Thierauf
October 21, 1940, Western District Officer Edward Manning, Officer Frank McGee, and Lieutenant John Schmidt take care of little Miss Charlene Whitehead, from Long Beach, California, a 6-month-old child left in an automobile while parents went to a movie
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
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1941
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Patrolman Howard Collins
January 2, 1941
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Garbage Strike
January 4, 1941
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Lieutenant Edward Burns, Southwest District
February 6, 1941
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1942
Photo courtesy Bob Poist
Officer Edward Poist
Officer Edward Poist
DOB: 9/6/1905
DOD: 9/16/1956
Graduated from Baltimore Police Academy 1942
Officer of the year 1955
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1943
COURTESY OFFICER JAMES McCARTIN
Officer Milton Gardner, Officer Harry Scott, Officer James Butler
June 12, 1943
An Instructive Address to the Assistant Buyers Club
By Inspector Joseph H. Itzel
December 1944
A particularly instructive and factual address carrying many little-known facts having to do with the activities of the Baltimore Police Department was delivered on November 30 by Inspector Joseph H. Itzel before the Assistant Buyers Club. A digest of his remarks is given herewith It is a privilege and pleasure indeed to address the members and friends of the Assistant Buyers Club of Baltimore's Retail Stores, in representing your law enforcement agency. In these critical days when the question of law enforcement on the home front is of such major importance, may I take this opportunity to thank you and express my appreciation for the spirit of friendship, cooperation and your interest in your Police Force? We hope you will know us better and become more intimately acquainted with our problems and activities. While it has not been my good fortune to meet you all personally, nevertheless I do feel intimately associated with you through my acquaintance and friendship with my good friend Mr. James P. Burnside, your president. The Police Force is maintained by municipal funds and under the control of the State. This system is in force in only three of the ten largest cities in the country-Boston, St. Louis and Baltimore. The first (non-paid) "VOLUNTEER CONSTABULARY" of Baltimore was created in 1729, the citizens having been driven to this exigency by the alarming depredations of a swelling lawless element. The first "SALARIED WATCH AND PATROL" was created by the Maryland Legislature in 1784. From 1784 to 1860 the Force had been under the control of local officials. In 1860 the Legislature enacted a law placing the department under State control. Today, for the first time, we have a man from the ranks-Honorable Hamilton R. Atkinson, a former Police Inspector. You must remember that police work today covers a broad field of highly specialized pursuits, and to direct as a Police Commissioner must, he must understand them. He must have special qualifications. He must have developed a broad concept of police work, must have an administrative ability, foresight, integrity and physical vigor, professional training and show leadership over a large group of subordinates. The Commissioner has demonstrated successfully this responsibility. It is impossible to encompass within the scope of this summary all of his achievements since taking over command of the Police Department fifteen months ago. Reference, however, is made to several outstanding improvements which are characteristic of Commissioner Atkinson's administration.
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE BUREAU
On January 17, 1944, the Commissioner established the Juvenile Protective Bureau for the purpose of attempting to curb juvenile delinquency and to exert a measure of protective influence in preventing delinquents acquiring court records. Through its instrumentality, the juvenile case is placed in the proper channel for adjustment when necessary and both child and parent are counseled along corrective lines to prevent a repetition of the complaint.
The following is a breakdown of cases showing the activities of the Juvenile Protective Bureau from the Bureau's inception to September 30, 1944:
Involving adults ………………….....14
White Males ..………………….. ..428
White Females…………………….80
Colored Males………………….. .301
Colored Females...........................166
Total….............................................989
Under 10 years…………………...256
10 to 15 yrs. Inclusive……………686
16 to 20 yrs. Inclusive……………..33
Adults……………………………....14
Total……………………………….989
During 1943 throughout this nation 3,785 serious crimes were committed each day-this meant that one out of every twenty-one American homes was a victim of the crime toll. But tragic as that is, it is not our greatest tragedy. The real tragedy in these figures is found in the rising number of youthful offenders. Arrests of boys under seventeen years of age have increased thirty percent since the outbreak of the war. All of our war casualties are plainly not battle casualties. The most positive view is, that we should quit trying to cure juvenile, delinquency by correction and begin curing it by prevention. Prevention means giving juvenile wholesome things with which to occupy his or her time. The seriousness of the problem of juvenile delinquency is more clearly seen when it is noted that compared with arrests in 1941, the figures for 1943 throughout the United States show that arrests of girls under 21 years of age increased 130.4 percent. Juvenile delinquents have created the greatest problem. In 1943 over two thousand persons. under seventeen years of age were sentenced in this nation and the greatest part of these were boys. These figures indicate that the factors contributing to delinquency are still very powerful and point to the need for each community to intensify its efforts to stop the rising tide of delinquency and juvenile crime. All of the constructive influence which an aroused community can provide are urgently needed to combat this menace to our internal strength. Youth today is seeking sympathetic response, recognition, security and new experiences. Any worthwhile youth program cannot overlook the fundamental human desires, for our failure to satisfy all or any of them is a barrier to the development of good citizens. Young people know what they like and the great majority of them adhere to decent things. We must strengthen the "HOME" in every way possible for the primary responsibility for the care and protection of our boys and girls and this must rest within its four walls. Youth is our greatest national asset. We dare not waste it. The watchword should be that of ALERTNESS AND CONTINUOUS UNITY OF ACTION
Too many American communities and fathers and mothers are trying to blame the war for the prevailing, growing and menacing wave of juvenile delinquency. Parents concentrate altogether too much energy and thought on making money. They have no time for their children and little influence over them. It is adults who raise or lower moral standards-children merely reflect the change. After the war, all that can be shown for the big paychecks will be a wrecked home. A sympathetic understanding of the problems confronting these children is necessary. This protective element is paramount in our Juvenile Protective Bureau. Our mission will be fulfilled. No father or, a mother has a right to evade their responsibilities.
This department is keenly aware of the great responsibility which, by law, rests upon it to protect from harm the lives, liberty and property, day and night, of more than one million persons in their homes and their livelihood. We are severely taxed with many burdens, and one of the principal problems is a crime. In the face of a considerable influx of people and an acute housing shortage, it would seem to be especially gratifying, and indeed, incredible that decrease of 8.09% (796 cases) serious crimes was reported in 1943 as compared with 1942. Arrests in 1943 show a percentage of 50.8%.
I respectfully submit statistics of serious offenses reported in 1943 as compared with the number in 1942.
Offense 1942 1943
Aggravated assault…… 165 179
Manslaughter………… ... 8 6
Murder………………… 108 96
Rape…………………… 79 95
Carnal knowledge……...13 14
Larceny……………...6,505 5,314
False pretense……..... 339 325
Embezzlement…………72 46
Robbery………………588 682
Burglary……………..1,898 2,225
Forgery………………....62 59
RADIO CARS IN 1943
The radio cars (patrol service) covered 2,479,106 miles during the year and responded to 112,558 calls, as compared with 118,454 in 1942. Members of this division made 10,356 arrests for various offenses including 19 murder; 1,308 for common assault; 153 for assault and cutting; 84 for assault and shooting; 18 for assaulting officers in the performance of duty; 155 burglars; 5,468 cases involving breach of peace; 130 for carrying deadly weapons; 440 for larceny; 106 drunken drivers and 25 for purse snatching. The cars responded to 4,415 accident calls, 3,230 alarms of fire, recovered 386 stolen automobiles and 62 bicycles; removed 454 persons to hospitals and rendered first aid to 25 victims of gas and other poisons.
BOY’S CLUBS
On June 22d, 1944, one of the achievements of our Police Commissioner Hamilton R. Atkinson, as the dedication of the first Police Boys' Club at the Southwestern Police Station. Some 425 youngsters ranging from 8 to 18 years of age had signed up for membership when the new clubrooms were opened by the Police Commissioner, State and City officials. The club is open five days a week from 4 to 9 p.m. The membership is divided into groups competing against one another in athletic contests. They have a program of self-government and select their own representatives to enforce the club rules. There is a library, a completely equipped machine shop for woodwork with metal work equipment to follow. Another club is now being established in the Eastern Police Station.
AUXILIARY POLICE
In December 1941, our Police Commissioner organized an "Auxiliary Police Force," a unit of Civilian Defense Organization, to help make up for the number of active police that would be drawn off to assist in the war effort. More can be found HERE
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Newspaper article dated Feb.21, 1944 indicating that 22 Baltimore Police Officers have given their lives in the line of duty
Courtesy Mike O'Hara (Grandson)
P/O Eugene "Mike" O'Hara
Served with Baltimore Police Department for 30 years
Above Sergeant Henry M. Sinski supervisor of the evidence collection unit in 1948
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| Photo courtesy Tom Bolvari |
Original newspaper article reporting the promotion of Lieutenant Thomas J. Keyes to the rank of Captain and being assigned to the Traffic Division in 1948
Below pictured Thomas J. Keyes as Deputy Commissioner sitting at his desk.
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| Photo courtesy Tom Bolvari |
Deputy Commissioner Thomas J. Keys sitting at his desk.
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| Photo courtesy Tom Bolvari |
Photograph of President LBJ that was personally autographed to Thomas Keyes with best wishes and signed by the President of the United States.
ABOVE, July 8, 1949, following the hanging of
Ray Arnold Woods for the murder of
Baltimore Police Officer Joseph Benedict,
Alfred H.Fischer (officer with the badge)
witnessed the hanging and helped transport
the body to the morgue
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Officer Julius Richburg 1950's
BPD METER MAIDS 1950'S
Photo courtesy Lt. William Bowen
Captain Elmer Z. Bowen (1954)
Photo courtesy Lt. William Bowen
Captain Elmer Z. Bowen (1954)
Photo courtesy Officer Melvin Howell
Courtesy Bernie Wehage
Officer Melvin Howell
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| Photo courtesy Office Melvin Howell |
Above Officer Melvin Howell is seen investigating a motor vehicle accident involving a train and below he is assisting with the roundup of some cattle that had escaped from a slaughterhouse.
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| Photo courtesy of Officer Melvin Howell |
CALLED RUN-OF-THE-MINE
Strip-Tease Act Lands Dancer In Police Court
December 1952 It was just a "run-of-the-mine strip-tease act," according to Defense Attorney Joseph F. DiDomenico.But to a policewoman and four policemen it was something more than that--enough, in fact, to justify a charge of presenting an indecent show against Mrs. Carmen Benton, thirty-three, Mrs. Benton, who lives in the 700 block Reservoir street, was arraigned Wednesday before Magistrate William F. Laukaitis in Central Police Court. She let Attorney DiDomenico do the talking for her.THE VARIOUS policemen did some talking too. Patrolman George Fink of the police vice squad testified that Policewoman Miss Betty Riha and Patrolman Kenneth Runge dropped in at a cabaret In the 600 block East Baltimore street Tuesday night and were much intrigued by a dance presented by Mrs. Benton. They were so interested, in fact, that after seeing only part of the show they phoned for Patrolmen Fink, John Livesey, and Melvin Howell to join them. The three vice squad men lost no time in hurrying over from headquarters.AFTER THE dance, Mrs. Benton was arrested, and Mrs. Catherine Darrell, forty-six, one of the proprietors of the club, also was charged with permitting an indecent show to be presented. There was some testimony about a brassiere Mrs. Benton wore or didn't wear, but Defense Attorney DiDomenico denied it had been removed. Magistrate Laukaitis postponed the case until Saturday morning to permit the defendants to produce witnesses who would say Mrs. Benton's dance wasn't indecent----that it was just of run-of- the mine strip act, as Mr. DiDomenico.
Weigh Charges Attempt Escape Attempt In Courthouse
September 29, 1964
Authorities are considering escape charges against a Patuxent Institute inmate who broke from custody and threw the courthouse into an uproar yesterday. Bullets ricocheted in the marble halls as a guard fired three warning shots into the ceiling when the prisoner broke away from him on the fourth floor and ran down the stairs toward the building's exit. Osborne Eberhart Hedges, 22, of Glen Burnie, was captured by guards and city police after he tripped and fell at the northwest corner of St. Paul and Fayette Sts.HEDGES had just heard himself pronounced a defective delinquent by Judge Michael J. Manley and was committed to Patuxent, where he had previously been for examination. As the gunfire reverberated through the building, judges locked themselves in their chambers; an assistant state's attorney grabbed a gun exhibit and ducked under a trial table; a stenographer fell down a flight of wooden stairs; people in corridors ran for the nearest cover, and women screamed. Hedges was taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment of injuries received when he was overpowered by his guard, Thomas S. Henderson, and Patrolman Melvin Howell.
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| Officer Melvin Howell |
Departmental drivers license issued to Officer Melvin Howell on May 12, 1955.
Officer Howell received the highest score among the others in his class.
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| Courtesy Officer John Brazil |
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| Courtesy Officer John Brazil |
Officer John Brazil poses for a picture, May 1954
(below) Portrait of Officer John Bazil
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OFFICER RAYMOND STANIEWSKI
JULY 6, 1955
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| Courtesy Officer John Brazil |
Officer John Bazil
Officer John Brazil's display of his dad's police equipment.
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| Photo courtesy James Robertson |
Officer Archie Rogers badge # 445
1957
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| Photo courtesy James Robertson |
Officer Archie Roger's certificate of completion of the police academy March 15, 1957
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| COURTESY OFFICER WILBUR BARTELS |
Sergeant Milton Kniese making a phone call to his station from the call box located at Morton and Oliver Sts., around 1957
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| COURTESY RET. SERGEANT NICK CAPRINOLO |
Courtesy Bernie Wehage
Officer John Sinnott, Traffic Motor Division 1958
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| Photo courtesy Officer Jim Mitchell |
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| Photo courtesy Officer Jim Mitchell |
Photo Courtesy James Redding
Officer Clyde Redding escorting a prisoner
Officer John W. Franks, Northern District
Officer Harold G. Sommer, Southwest District
Officer James O. Miller, Jr. Southern District
Officer Raymond Sadler
Officer John J. Carroll, Northwest District
Officer John H. Sauer, Traffic Division
Officer Edward Porst, Northeast District
Officer Edward P. Dunkin, Central District
1ST.Black Baltimore Police Officer is marked on the back of this original photograph. We only include it here, because he was an officer, and deserves to have his photo displayed, and displayed here. That said, the hat device is a Baltimore hat device/badge, with a slight difference. His badge is also very similar to the Baltimore badge but also has some differences. His uniform is one of a Baltimore City Officer, having Northwestern collar pins, but the buttons do not appear to be Baltimore Police Buttons. The Hat he is wearing is an 8 point hat, Baltimore Police started wearing Bobby cap/helmets in 1886 then switched to a round/oval hat in 1908, they wore the round/oval hats until 1944 (8 Oct 44), so this photograph was taken after 1944. There is another photo of an officer from behind, dated 1926, it could be this officer, he appears a little younger, and is wearing the round/oval hat. It is possible therefore that he was an auxiliary or special appointed officer of the Baltimore Police Department. No date was indicated in the photograph. All that said, we know he was not the first Black Police Officer as that distinction was held by Violate Hill Whyte, Lt. Whyte joined the department at the age of 40 in 1937, and retired in 1967. She worked Northwestern, and Pine Street's Western District from 6 A.M. until 6 P.M. every night, never missing a single day work, in 30 years, in fact, after retiring in 1967 she continued working for approximately a month and a half to two months while she finished some projects she was working on. Sadly Lt. Whyte passed away in 1980 in a Nursing home on Keswick Ave. God Bless her, she was an amazing lady, and outstanding police, she said two things that I thought were the reason she was who she was, first she said, "I am not afraid of work!" and another things she said, "Being first means nothing, unless you are also your best!" Now this to me was interesting, as the first Police Department in the United States was, Boston; followed by Baltimore, (Some argue New York was second/they're wrong LOL). In Boston the first Irish Police Officer was, Bernard "Barney" McGinniskin, he went on to be one of the best Irish Police in a heavily populated Irish city, had he been the first and been terrible at his job, it would have only brought more negative thoughts for future Irish Police Officers, and those that had negative feeling toward Irish Police in the first place. So what Lt. Whyte was saying,”Being the first means nothing unless you are also one of the best?" I studied statement analysis, and pay close attention to one's words, and in this Lt Whyte, wasn't taking full credit for "HER" ability, she wasn't saying, "Unless I am the best!" which would have been taking full credit, (credit she deserved), this told me, she would have been modest, soft-spoken, maybe even a bit shy. I talked to those that knew her, and my beliefs were verified. Lt. Whyte was that of a soft-spoken, modest, hard-working police; she didn't seek attention for her actions, and in fact, her actions often spoke louder than her. She couldn’t call herself the best, but we can, and will, "she was the best", and as she said, "Being first means nothing unless you are also the best!" She was recognized for her hard work, and dedication to duty... before she was recognized for the color of her skin, or where it ranked in seniority among other officers in the Baltimore Police Department.
Courtesy Bernie Wehage
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| Officer U.B. Huff Traffic Division |
Charles and Wilbur Miller May 1959
Wilbur Miller retired with the rank of Colonel
Mother's Day breakfast May 10, 1959
Amateur K-9
Amateur K-9
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| PHOTO COURTESY OF HIS DAUGHTER BARB (WOLFE) BUSSELLS |
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Honesty
Sgt Jack L Cooper
Wednesday, 25 December 2019 11:32
On this date 25 December, 1964 we lost our Brother Sgt Jack L Cooper to gun fire based on the following:
Baltimore Sun Article Dated 12/26/1964
A police Sergeant was shot to death early yesterday as he was searching for a bandit who had wounded a police lieutenant in a Christmas Eve liquor store hold up. Sgt. Jack L. Cooper, 43, was shot twice through the heart shortly before 5 a.m. as he was working by himself in the 2600 Block of Kennedy Avenue. Lt. Joseph T. Maskell, 40, was shot twice but was not fatally wounded as he struggled with the bandit shortly before 10 p.m. Christmas Eve outside a liquor store in the 2000 Block of Greenmount Avenue. He was in fair condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Police said Sergeant Cooper apparently had stopped a 25-year old man identified by witnesses as one of four men who robbed the liquor store proprietor and several of his customers of $2,399.80. Police found a black leather card case containing the name of the 25-year-old man lying near Sergeant Cooper’s body. They also found a driver’s license issued to the same man lying on the floor of his police car near the clutch pedal. Sergeant Cooper’s pistol was still in its holster when he was found sprawled on the sidewalk about 10 feet from the open door of his car. About 4:45 a.m., Sergeant Cooper and Patrolman Charles Kopfelder and Daniel Sobolewski met in the 1600 Block of Carswell Street, about eight blocks northeast from the holdup scene. The two patrolmen left in their police car to cruise along Gorsuch Avenue. They last saw the sergeant sitting alone in his car. Just before 4:50 a.m. they heard shots and hurried back to the 1600 Block of Carswell Street. They found Sergeant Cooper lying on the sidewalk in the 2600 Block of Kennedy Avenue. He was bleeding from three bullet wounds. The done light of his police car was turned on. Both Sergeant Cooper and Lieutenant Makell worked out of the Northeastern District. Sgt. Cooper served in the U.S. Coast Guard from June 3, 1941 to November 1945, he served in the North Atlantic convoy routes, and was discharged as Radio Man, First Class. One retired Sgt. wrote on the Christmas killing of our brother Sgt Cooper that someone else was correct in their beliefs that Sgt. Cooper was Shot and Killed by one of the Veney Brothers (Sam and Earl) "Yes, it was the Veney brothers, I was a patrolman at the time in the Northern Distirct, working for Joe Maskellwhen he was a Sergeant in the Northern. I gave a pint of blood at St. Joes, The Liquor store was Lexie's and was always being held up. After the shooting, and during the months of searching for the Veney brothers we must have raided every house in the area at one time or another. First time and last time I ever carried a Thompson 45 cal machine gun. The truck would pull up to a corner and we would all line up and be issued shotguns or Thompson's and be told what we were going to hit. We would raid a whole block, kick in all the doors and start searching. I was with George Shriner one time and remember his placing his Thompson near a sleeping man's mouth and when the guy woke up he raised his head and it was as if he could have rammed the gun into his throat. I still can't figure out how someone wasn't killed during that time. The thing about it was it was a different time, there were so many tips coming in and none of us knew what was being said, or by who, all we knew, was they shot two of ours killing one, and none of us wanted to be next. One of the Veney's was arrested in New York State and living disguised as a woman. The ACLU took the Baltimore Police Department to the Supreme Court protesting the tactics used to find these jerks. The results changed the probable cause for searching for suspects in the future. No more anonymous tip searches. Years later after I retired, I was the Director of Security at Lexington Market and I happened to hear that one of the Veney's was cashing pay checks at the market. . Someone dropped a dime to the right person and a big stink was made. His work release suddenly stopped.
From this I learned what to look for and found the following: The Veney Brothers were Sam and Earl Veney, Sam actually pulled the trigger on that night ruining a lot of lives. The following information might be of some interest, it was found in Baltimore Sun archives
Joseph T. Maskell, 73, Officer Shot in the Notorious 1964 Case
April 17, 1998|By Fred Rasmussen | Fred Rasmussen,SUN STAFF
Joseph T. Maskell, a retired Baltimore police lieutenant who was shot in a 1964 robbery that began the notorious Veney brothers case, died of lung cancer April 10 1998 at his Mount Washington home. He was 73. Lieutenant Maskell joined the Police Department in 1946 and, after recovering from his wounds, retired in 1966. He became an adjuster for an insurance company and was appointed vice president of marketing at Freestate Adjusting Co. in 1979. He retired again in 1986 and was a rental car salesman until 1990 About 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve in 1964, Lieutenant Maskell, assigned to the Northeastern District, responded to a call about a robbery in progress at the Luxies Liquor store in the 2000 block of Greenmount Ave. "He saw something going on and walked right into a robbery. He was shot twice, and then he staggered to Worsley Street, about 25 feet from Greenmount Avenue, where he was later found," said Bill Rochford, a police lieutenant at the time. "It was a miracle he survived." said Mr. Rochford, a boyhood friend who grew up with Lieutenant Maskell in Northeast Baltimore. Samuel J. Veney and Earl Veney became the targets of the city's largest manhunt. The Veneys made the FBI's 10-most-wanted list, the first time two brothers had been on the list. "The search was intense and went on through the night and into Christmas morning, when Sgt. Jack Lee Cooper was killed by Samuel Veney," said Bill Talbott, a retired Evening Sun reporter who covered the case. During the 19-day manhunt, police searched 200 homes in black communities without obtaining search warrants. The illegal searches prompted the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to file a federal lawsuit that resulted in an 1966 injunction against the city police. The Veney brothers, who had fled the state, were captured in March 1965 while working in a zipper factory on Long Island, N.Y. They were tried and convicted in Frederick, where the case was moved because of pretrial publicity. Earl Veney was sentenced to 30 years in prison and in 1976 was found hanged in the House of Correction in Jessup, where Samuel Veney is serving a life sentence. Lieutenant Maskell was awarded two official commendations and received 10 letters of commendation. "He was a very decent guy who never really held any animosity about what happened," Mr. Rochford said. "I think the only regret he had was the fact that it ended his career. In later years, he really never talked about it." Retired Sun reporter Robert A. Erlandson said, "He was the prototypical Irish cop with a big smile and very caring and most of all was well-liked." A 1942 graduate of City College, Lieutenant Maskell served in the Army Coast Artillery from 1942 to 1945 and was discharged as a staff sergeant. He earned a law enforcement certificate from the University of Maryland in 1963. Graveside services were held Monday. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, the former Gloria Bauer; three daughters, Cynthia DiLiello of Jarrettsville, Mindy Sturgis of Joppatowne and JoAnne Bell of Fallston; and nine grandchildren.
Sam Veney get's Death Sentence
Afro American Newspaper
FREDERICK - Samuel Jefferson Veney, 27, convicted of the Christmas, 1964 murder of Police Sgt. Jack Lee Cooper. must die in the gas chamber. So ruled a two-judge Frederick County Circuit Court panel here late Monday. Sam, the second half of the first brother team ever to make the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list,stood Impassively as Judge J. Dudley Diggs pronounced the Supreme penalty. Execution or sentence will be delayed pending outcome of an appeal to Md. Court of Appeals. Charges of armed robbery and shooting with intent to murder Police Lt. Joseph T. Maskell were stetted by Baltimore State's Attorney Charles E. Moylan, who headed the week-long prosecution before a two-woman and ten-man jury which returned the verdict offirst degree murder guilt. While imposing sentence Judge Diggs said he and associate Judge Robert E. Clapp Jr. decreed the death penalty after "consciously and unconsciously" searching their minds and concluding there was no justification for not imposing capital punishment. Chief defense counsel John R. Hargrove, arguing against the extreme penalty said Sam should not be made a ''scapegoat" while others involved in the crime are out walking the streets. Mr. Moylan, on the other hand declaredthat he could not think of any case where the death penalty would be imposed if it were not imposed in a case of the convicted police killer. Mr. Hargrove, noted an immediate intention to appeal.
Putting a Price Tag on that which is Priceless -- Life Itself
May 12, 1993|By Gregory P. Kane
CONVICTED cop killer Samuel Veney, who was returned to a Maryland prison Monday, walked away the same weekend two Los Angeles police officers were found guilty of violating Rodney King's civil rights. That was a coincidence, but both Sam Veney and Rodney King were involved in cases where police misconduct became at least as notorious as the misdeeds of either man. Before his brutal beating, King had led police and highway patrolmen on a high-speed car chase. He was quite drunk at the time. My guess is that he had broken at least four laws by the time of his arrest, crimes that were all but forgotten in the furor that resulted from the video of those 82 seconds it took police to subdue him. The case of Sam Veney and his brother Earl is different because their crime was more heinous. They gunned down two Baltimore Police -- killing one and wounding another -- while robbing a liquor store on Greenmount Avenue. The Veney brothers were probably the most notorious and feared criminals in Baltimore history, but police misconduct figured prominently in their crime, too. After the shootings, the Baltimore Police Department declared war on the city's black population. Police broke into scores of homes without warrants or the slightest pretext of probable cause. The search teams were called "flying squads," as delicate a euphemism for police state terror as it should ever be our disgust to encounter. Juanita Jackson Mitchell had to take city police to federal court and remind them that Baltimore was in America, not Nazi Germany or the Stalinist Soviet Union. As a young boy living in the Murphy Homes housing project at the time, I vividly remember wondering whether I had more to fear from the Veney brothers or Baltimore Police. Years later remember thinking that whatever the iniquities of the Veney brothers, it was their act that had exposed the Baltimore Police Department for its brutal, racist treatment of Baltimore's black citizens in 1964 and before. Should we forget how bad it was, we need only remind ourselves that Commissioner Donald Pomerleau -- hardly a flaming liberal -- was brought in to nudge the department into the 20th century. Now Sam Veney comes back to haunt us again. It seems that every time a Veney screws up, a larger issue is brought into focus. The issue this time is the parole policy of the state of Maryland. Many were wondering -- Evening Sun columnist Dan Rodricks among them -- why a lifer like Veney who was not being considered for parole was given weekend home visiting privileges. I'm sure Sam Veney looked at the situation differently, as did his family. He figured that with a good behavior record and a 10-year history of returning from weekend visits, why shouldn't he be considered for parole? So old Sam simply initiated self-parole. And to give the devil his due, Sam Veney has a point. Yes, he killed a cop. Yes, he was given a life term. But everyone in the state knows that some murderers are given life terms and then are paroled. Others, like Sam Veney, are given life sentences and won't ever be considered for parole. The criteria for determining which murderers get paroled and which do not sound good -- prior criminal record, the impact on the victim's family, the convict's progress while in prison -- but ultimately lead to charges that the race, class and occupation of the victim come into the equation. How it is that Sam Veney can see the absurdity of such a policy and we civilized, law-abiding citizens can't? All murder victims are equally dead. There are none deader than others. If some lifers have a shot at parole, all should have a shot. Or none should have a shot. Equally absurd is the case of Terrence Johnson, sentenced to 25 years for killing two Prince George's County police officers. Johnson has been a model prisoner for years, even taking the time to further his education while in prison. But don't look for him to be paroled. Gov. William Donald Schaefer found the heart to pardon women convicted of killing husbands and boyfriends on the grounds that the women had suffered brutality at the hands of the men. Even though the prosecution in Johnson's case conceded the cops were brutalizing him at the time of the killings, the governor apparently can't see any justification for granting Johnson not a pardon, but a parole. We ought to be concerned that Maryland law allows for the parole of murderers given life sentences. As former city police commissioner, state public safety commissioner and current Mercy Hospital brain surgery patient Bishop L. Robinson has pointed out, if we don't want murderers paroled after they've been handed life sentences, we need only express our wishes to our state legislators and get them to work changing the law. Let's put a no-parole-for-lifers law on the books. Paroling some murderers and denying parole to others puts a price tag on that which should be priceless -- human life.
Ex-officer remembers Veney raids held in 1964
June 09, 2001|By Gregory Kane
WHAT, SOME curious readers have asked, were the Veney raids?
I'm older than I'd like to think. At one time, most Baltimoreans knew what the Veney raids were. As those of us in the baby boomer generation get older, we assume those younger know what we know. We assume that events from December 1964 are common knowledge. But they aren't. Sam and Earl Veney robbed a liquor store in December 1964. The two black men also shot two police officers, killing one. They were caught and convicted. But the police manhunt in Baltimore for the Veney brothers became almost as infamous as their crimes. Without warrants, police broke into scores of homes in black neighborhoods. (Some put the number as high as 300.) Some critics protested that the raids were a widespread violation of civil liberties. Federal courts and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had to get involved. In a recent column, I referred to the Veney raids as "notorious." One man who remembers the raids well - much better than 13-year-old Gregory Kane could have - took umbrage with the use of the word. He's Paul Lioi, now retired and living in Florida. In December 1964 he was 25-year-old Officer Paul Lioi of the Baltimore Police Department. He sent this letter to The Sun: "That [notorious] remark hit a sensitive chord with me," Lioi wrote. "Let's go back to 1964. It was Christmas Eve, and the children of two police officers wrapped their fathers' gifts and went to bed and could hardly wait until morning when their daddies would return home from work to open their gifts and celebrate Christmas together. This was not to be, because one daddy, a police lieutenant, was shot and wounded during a hold-up at a liquor store on Greenmount Avenue. "And later that same day, the second daddy, a police sergeant, was killed. Neither family celebrated Christmas that day, and for one family, Christmas and every day thereafter, the dad would no longer be with them. The investigation at the robbery scene revealed that the suspects responsible for the robbery and shooting of a police lieutenant were the Veney brothers. As the police went looking for the brothers one of [them] shot and killed a police sergeant. Two police officers shot, one seriously wounded and one killed. They happened to be my lieutenant and sergeant. "The police department went on a manhunt to try and locate and apprehend these police assassins known as the Veney brothers. They felt compelled to follow up on any lead they received. The tips they received came from the black community. I was part of the raiding party and felt that the tips received were authentic." Its 37 years later, and Lioi - who won four Bronze Stars, a Distinguished Service Medal and the Medal of Honor in his police career - knows that many of the tips were nowhere near authentic. "Most turned out to be bogus," Lioi said yesterday from his Orlando home. The reason baffles him. This was a search for cop-shooters. "Why," Lioi wondered, "were they giving us these bogus tips?" Lioi also feels empathy with those who lived in the raided homes. "Come to think of it," he said, "it was a bad thing. We had our guns pointed at the houses. We weren't going to walk up to a suspect and say, `Sir, are you Mr. Veney?'" Lioi says he arrested one of the Veney brothers - he doesn't remember which one - several months before that fateful Christmas Eve. He and his partner - whose regular beat included the liquor store that was robbed - were off the night the store was robbed. He often wonders what would have happened if they had been working instead of Lt. Joseph Maskell, who was wounded in the liquor store robbery, and Sgt. Jack Lee Cooper, whom Sam Veney fatally shot after Cooper confronted him in East Baltimore. "He was a decent guy, a real gentleman," Lioi said of Cooper. "His death just about ruined my Christmas. I went up to my room and closed my door because I didn't want my children to see a grown man cry. And I did." Other memories of his East Baltimore beat are happier. He remembers when he was "fighting some mental case" and, unable to call for assistance, finally received it when concerned residents called for him. And he became a fan of legendary black comedian Jackie "Moms" Mabley while walking his beat on the graveyard shift. "It was about two in the morning," Lioi recalled. "I was walking by this house and the door was open. I heard a comedian doing a routine." He listened a bit and was delighted to hear one of the funniest comedians he'd ever come across in his life. A woman who lived in the house told him who it was and where to buy the album. The next day, Lioi was in a store on Greenmount Avenue, buying it. When his beat-walking days were over, he was promoted to sergeant and later became a detective with the arson squad. He retired in 1984 after 23 years on the force. Lioi offers no apologies for his role in the Veney raids. It was mischievous tipsters, he insists, who were responsible. But that may be why the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was critical of the raids. Federal judges realize that any crackpot can give a tip and lead even good cops to do bad things.
I read both stories and on the one hand I applaud (if you can applaud with one had) the work of G Kane for telling the story, but to compare a traffic violation with a cop killer, and the laws and rules of 1964 Baltimore to 1992/93 LA is wrong, in one case no one was killed and several officers lost their jobs, as they should have. But what happened in 1964 Baltimore, involved as Officer Lioi explains, the public dropping bad tips to get police reaction. In 1964 Baltimore Police didn't have body armor, so when they had to go in after suspects that had shot one officer and killed another, ringing the doorbell, was out of the question... It is so easy to sit back and Monday morning quarterback what people do for a living; in some cases the public forgets police get killed, they die and there is no reset button. The public demands protection from their police, and in 1964 the Veney Brothers were bad news, so to send police in after two brothers that they know will kill them if given the chance, police did what they had to, and were trained to in order to protect the public... Keep in mind that was 1964, if that were today, then of course it would have been done differently, heck if it were 1992/93 it would have been handled differently. But let's face it, it wasn't today, it wasn't 1992/93 and things were different back then, to compare cop killers to a traffic violation is wrong. The police reaction in once case was to stop and arrest a suspect for poor driving, the other was to bring in two cop killers and go home alive. To compare the two is more than apples oranges, it is disrespectful to the families of these officers, and every officer that had, or has since put on the badge. If it were cop killers in my neighborhood hiding out, the police wouldn't have to kick my door in, they would be welcomed to come in and check anytime. So often the public become so discontent with police that they will find fault in their every move, even things that happened before the officer they are dealing with ever set foot on the job. But they don't realize is, every officer on the job, risks his or her life every time they go to work, and they do it so we can be safe. If people would cooperate with police and call when they see something wrong, not call in for jokes, or to have a neighbor they don't like raided. All neighborhoods would be equal. But that's just my opinion.
Robert F. Kennedy said, "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on." Which goes alone the lines of the false tips 1964 Baltimore put up with, it's not income that has some criminals living in some areas over others, nor is it income that increases the number of police in an area. In fact most good neighborhoods have less police than some of the worse neighborhoods. So how does this work, why does it work like this, because in the better neighboods, when someone hangs on the corner, the police are called the people chased off etc. If someone if holding a gun, police are called and before long people stop holding guns in that area, or hanging on the corner. Basically cooperating with police letting them know who is doing what and where will get people out of certain areas. At a meeting in Baltimore County we were told if we want more police we have to call the police more often when we see crime, but if we are not seeing crime then more police won't be needed. And in my neighborhood, if kids hang on corners police are called, if someone steals a bike, the police are told who took it and where they put it. Police aren’t mind readers, if we want our neighborhoods safe, we need to report what we know, if we don't we'll end with that type criminal living in our area (we welcome them by not letting police know they are unwelcomed) the more we cooperate with police, the better quality police service we'll have too... Bobby Kennedy may have been onto something.
Photos Courtesy of Nick Caprinolo
The photos came to me courtesy of Nick Caprinolo - I'm not a big fan of showing pics of the suspects in these type cases, but in this instance, the suspects have gained a sort of finger pointing at the police, as if we did something wrong in getting them off the streets. So I think it may be appropriate to show these suspects were not mellow, or meek looking individuals, that were being picked on singled out by the Police. They were two brothers that regularly robbed individuals in the area as well as many A&R's at the neighborhood liquor store. When police went to arrest them, they shot a lieutenant first, then later in the same night shot and killed a police sergeant.
As a result of their actions and the discontent of these brothers by the neighborhood, hundreds of tips came in to police hot lines giving information on the two, sometimes the tips were false, sometimes they were real... But it was out of fear of the Veney Brothers, not the police that brought the tips in.
When I post these stories here, I often follow-up on Facebook where I receive different responses, and those messages tell us a lot too... Here are some of those responses;
The first response was - Many of those bogus tips were on purpose. The brothers were caught in New York and weren't in Baltimore for most of those tip calls! Those "tips" led to the greatest violation of the 4th Amendment ever, according to one Federal judge.
The next response was - Thanks for posting these.
My response to the first response was as follows - The thing about the "Veney raids" is the officers that were making entry and doing the raids were doing it in good faith, they didn't know the tips were bogus, nor did they know where the brothers were. Something people don't understand about police is that they don't want to do a raid, just to do a raid; no one wants to go into a home disrupting lives of good people knowing the suspect(s) or suspected objects are not in the house. Since 1964 a lot has changed, police equipment has changed, Communications is different, the way information is obtained has changed drastically, back then I was 6 month old, I wasn't sworn in with the BPD yet, so the only thing that is the same for me from then to now is I couldn't walk back then either, LOL... If people only knew the amount of pride officers have in getting the suspect, not one officer wants to waste time chasing bad leads. So yes I agree there were problems with the raids, and today those raids would have been done much differently - But let's not forget, every one of those raids were done in good faith, by police that knew if they were the one that got the house Sam or Earl were in, they may not have made it home, and they still did their job and went in after them.
Someone that was there at the time write the following about my response - As a Baltimore Police Patrol Officer at that time, I participated in many of those raids. I served in the area where the robbery occurred and worked with both the Lieutenant and Sergeant that were shot. Thank you, Kenny, for your posting and explanation of the circumstances that existed at that time.
A good friend of mine that worked the district of this shooting wrote - I heard many tall tales about this, thx Kenny
another writes - Kenny, I remember the night well. The entire Western shift volunteered as did most of the other Districts to work many "unpaid" hours. We knocked down lots of doors without warrants, and dragged numerous suspects in, but were unsuccessful in locating them. They were arrested several weeks later in New York by the FBI. (Here again the police were trying to get the Veney brothers - trying to make the area safer, and most important, doing what they were ordered to do. But they did if volunteer (unpaid) in order to try to get these guys, to try to make the arrests that would get two murders off the streets, and make the streets safer. They didn't want to do it, just to kick in doors, just to drag suspects in to the station. If you knew the pain in the rear end it is to transport prisoners or witnesses in to the station, you would know the only reason any one would do at all, much less for free, is because they were trying to help! Times were different than today, and if they had it to do all over they would do it different, but they would still have to remain cautious, and do all they could to make sure they went home alive, and no one was injured or killed)
And finally - I Was attending Edgewood Elementary School at the time. I remember the fear people had and the relief when they were caught. Parents were afraid to send kids to school. Very good piece Kenny.
More details
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| End of Watch | 25 December, 1964 |
| City, St. | City, St. |
| Panel Number | 17-W: 3 |
| Cause of Death | Gunfire |
| Weapon | - Handgun |
| District Worked | Northwestern |
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Larry J Sanders P/O 3583
Thomas Niemiera P/O 1651
Robert Tice Jr P/O 3056
Raymond Fields P/O 2642
Missie Brown Edick Cadet 210 P/O 922
Duke Loats P/O 507
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Ken Hyman P/O 2100
John M. Busky Jr. P/O 316
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Christopher McGann P/O 612 Det. 855
Scott DeMario P/O 2128
Gerard Heid P/O 2407
Eric Martin, P/A 3247
Raymond Wheatley P/O 996
Donna Worthy (Donna Jackson) P/O 3986
William Robbins P/O 3017 Lt 87
Gary Kracke P/O 2866
Margaret Spahn Mullen P/A 7030 Sgt 329
Paul Scardina P/O 325 3250 3249
David Kincaid jr: P/O 2067, Det 139, Sgt 408
Lewis Tawney P/O 1986 820 2912
Terry K. Hendrickson P/O 3355 and Det 1991
John Peranio, Jr. P/O 312.
Mark Homer,P/O 2047
Dave Rolle Cadet 135 P/O 2435 Det 83
Clifton Macer P/O 2244 Det Sgt. 100
Scott Yosua P/O 348
Jimmy Halcomd P/O 293
Edward (Mike) Eilerman P/O 1413
William Humble P/O 2178 and P/O 1761
Bill McKeldin P/O 865
Kevin Forrester P/O 1598 Det Sgt 58
Jim Carnes P/O 2188 Sgt 103 Lt 135
John Vesely P/O 1286
Jules Pritchard P/O 2793
Sam Taylor P/O 693 Sgt 331
Harry Shepard P/O 383
John Dodson P/O 2262
Antoine L Travers P/O 3001
Sharon A Marr P/O 7017 Det 70
George W Boston P/O 2972
Richard Thompson P/O 271
Rob Furlong P/O 1426 Sgt 120 Det Sgt 102 Lt 10 and Det Lt 40
Toni Furlong P/O 1994
Frank Gaskins P/O 754 Det 546 Sgt 419
Richard Boblitz Agent 3757
Angela R Boyd P/O 1346
Jose Roseado P/O 445
Brian Righter P/O 2455
Brent Michael P/O 1130
Ron Becker P/O 3437
Alesha Salyers P/O 3457
Tom Mallon P/O 2603 and 3803 Det. 354
Jeff Gary P/O 3978
Michael Craig P/O 2372
Kim Hammack P/O 319 Det 496
William Ackiss P/O 3489
Randy Grue P/O 2631
Tom Wade Jr. P/O 1707 Sgt 275
Tom Wade Sr. P/O 791
Michael Kundrat P/O 3007 Sgt 385 Lt 125 Maj 4
Sharp, J. A. Sgt. P/O 333
Ross Griffin P/O 2238
James Griffin P/O 2238
Jeff Boettcher P/O 3923 Det 800 Sgt 440 Det Sgt 97
Patty Bauer P/O 2255
Edward Lee Marston Jr P/O 208
Michael Hall P/O 2910 Det 420
Scott Santasania P/O 330
Barbara Halpern Schlereth P/O 1054 and P/O 327
Richard Schlereth P/O 1054
Eric T Ragland P/O 1586 Det 619
Edward A. Panowitz, Sr, P/O 23
Kevin Shillenn P/O 1313 and 1569
Dan Calhoun Det. Sgt 10
Cathy Calhoun P/O 753
Bill Smith P/O 1313
John Groncki P/O 3569
Charles Lee P/O 2379
Bill Neugent P/O 1822 Sgt 221 Det Sgt 86
Kurt Nagl P/O 4050 4048 and 4040
Joe Dugan P/O 3562 Det 247
Steve Sturm P/O 96
Calvin Kelly McCleese P/O 1673 4th issue and 8 5th issue badge .
Jeffrey A. McCleese P/O 8 then 1673
Jeffrey S Cardwell Sr P/O 3574
Tommy Linton P/O 1047
Emmett Jones Det/Lt 10
Pat Cochrane P/O 980
Bill Narango P/O 3149 and 3210
Richard Price II P/O 3375 Sgt: 272
Sean Ruane P/O 2178 Det 486
Ricardo Ojeda P/O 3478 Det 625 & 414
Robert Brown Sr P/O 365
Leo Smith P/O 1858
Jon Pease P/O 194
Rick Morris P/O 578
Sharp, J. A. Sgt. 333
Darryl Osborne P/O 1087 Det 346
Michael Lang P/O 2443
Shelia Raheem P/O 3654 Det 11
Earl LeBon P/O 721
John Cree P/O 2465 Sgt 110
John Windle P/O 3272, Sgt 68 Lt 70 Det Lt 12
David Eastman P/O 51
Michael Price P/O 984
Mary Ann Miller P/O 3310 Det 402
Vince Adolpho P/O 3175
Shelia Dodson P/O 3232
Lavon'De Alston P/O 3705
Bill Middleton P/O 261
Benjamin Newkirk P/O 7070
Richard Thompson 247
Jeff Soule Police P/O 911
Scott Roper P/O 3753 - Sgt 255 - Lt 1 - Maj 46
Kevin Allis P/O 2891
Emmett Jones Sgt 17 P/O 2440
Edward Jones P/O 3444 Det 421
John Freund P/O 2533
Christopher McGann P/O 612 Det 855
Brian Ralph P/O 1223. Det 51
David Jones P/O 1306
Ed Bossle Cadet 101 P/O 100 Det 84 Sgt 442 Lt 115 (First 3 were 3rd issue, Sgt was both 4th and 5th issue)
Troy Chesley P/O 260 Det 874
John Ambrose Sr P/O 3828 Det 404 Sgt 265
Kevin Carvell Patrol 1723 Detective 202
Santo Grasso P/O 358
Milton Krysztofiak P/O 2069
Jim Bowen P/O 704
Steve Creeron - P/O 2008
George Fugate P/O 3320 Sgt 424
Gwynne Tavel - P/O 475
Brandon Stickles P/O 1467 and 222
Rob Adams Officer 1831 Det 768 and 678
Ron Ogle P/O 2957 Det 218
Pete Baker Cadet. 114 - Patrol. 2952 - Detective 208
Robert Sallada Agent 1446
Bruce Neill Officer badge 695
Joseph Samuels Officer badge 2644
Ellwood Huhl P/O 1435
Wm G Hotz Jr Sequence E180 - Badge 634
David Gjodesen 981 Officer
Frank Hunsicker Detective 888 - Officer 1159
Bob Jones Officer 3206 - Sgt 95
Dale Wood Officer 3119 - Detective 555
Valarie Hargrove, Officer D 826
Richard Boblitz agent 3757
Mike DeBord Patrol 2876 - Detective 57
Michael Hessler Officer 1532 Det. 671
Robert Crispens Sr P/O 466
Robert Crispens Jr P/O 699
Ed Mattson - P/O 1237, Sgt 166
Ross Griffin Officer - 2238
Anthony Warble P/O 1678
James Napier P/O 899 & 2037
Bill Narango P/O 3149 and 3210
Scott Serio P/O 93 Det Lt 7
Brent Michael P/O 1130
William Welsh P/O 787
Luen N. Compton Jr. P/O 332
Mike Stefanowitz P/O 2380 and Det Sgt 30
Lisa Olszewski P/O 2424
Milton Scott P/O 3620, Det 663
Larry J Sanders PO 3583
Michael C. Davis. Officer, Badge 3386
Kirsten Scott Rogers Officer 789 - Detective 770
John Spiker P/O 3422 - Det 98
Freddie Bland Det Sgt 122
Ronald Teuer Sr 2469
Ronald Teufer Jr 2264
Edward Frost P/O 295 Sgt 257 Lt 143 & 11
Lawrence Johnson P/O 2346
Michael Werdin P/O 162
Darrel Oxyer P/O 1074 & 2410 Sgt 444
Michael Roselle P/O 578, 3393 and 257
Jim Wegein P/O 3027
Mark Armour P/O 2813
Charles Neill P/O 695
Carl Stambaugh P/O 3158
JoAnn Voelker P/O 1681 Sgt 26 Lt 1
Jay Wiley P/O 3252
Robert Hall Sr Sgt 302
Robert Hall P/A 3025
John Hall P/O 3578
Aaron Swanson Cadet 51 P/O 3909 Det 1511
Mary Phalan Ellerman P/O 3208 Sgt 104 & 89 Det Lt 8 Lt 100 Maj 3
Alan Small - Cadet 149 - P/O 2970 Before 1977 - Police Agent 702
Bryan Donahue Officer 3525
Jerry Leisher Officer 3427
Leon P. Riley III Officer 3322
Bill Colburn Officer 586, Serge 370, Det Serge 123, Serge 8, and Lt 50
Donna L. White Officer: 3905 Detective:11
John Miller Police Officer 3046 - Sergeant ? - Lieutenant 120
Karen Hendricks Manns Officer 536 - Detective 778
Jeff Humphreys Officer 1438
Andrew Giordano Patrolman, 1110
Karla Chimick Officer- 3412
Joe Kleinota 752 As an officer 257 as a detective
Norman Sauter Officer 1420
Matt FG Cadet 267 - Officer 1606
Randy Grue Officer 2631
Arthur Nixon 3321
Timothy Martin lost hat device for 2582 then issued 2587
Earl Kratsch Mine is detective 34
Karen M. Larkins Officer 419
Michael Lind Officer 3191 - Det. 862
Benjamin Braxton Police Officer 695
Scott Santasania Officer 330
Shelton Jones Jr. detective 74 and p/o badge was 860
Michael Broll Police officer badge 2870 E167
Gary Yamin 1st Officer badge 3726 - 2nd Officer badge 814 - D/Sgt. 47
Victor Villafane Patrol 3908, Detective 950
Aaron Perkins Detective Badge was 1 and Officer’s Badge was 351
Corey Alston Detective badge 409
Christopher Emich Sr. P/O 3522 then 538 Sgt 113
Edwin F Emich P/O 538
Cynthia McCrea Officer 2816 then 2299
Tony Petralia Jr. Detective 57, Officer 2908
Phil Goertz Officer - 3568 - Detective- 56
Harold Wertz Police Officer 3182
Kevin Scott Officers Badge 89
Patrick Sellers Officers Badge 1399
Sam Taylor P/O 693 Sgt 331
Howard Stansbury patrolman 2569 Detective 877
Marco Miranda P/O 3636
Raymond Scaraggi Officer #1843
Ira Roth P.O. 1728.
Michelle Cheatham Police Officer 1688
Natalie Ring, Det 680
Dale Snyder Officer 1668
Kevin Walker Officer 4040 narcotics 2441
Jerry DeManss Lt- 103, Off 790 Seq B627.
Bill Roberts, PO 794
Bob Miller Officer 1597......Sgt. 83
Jerry Flanary Officer badge 1908
Christine Smothers Officer 3022
Gregory Robinson P/O 2364
Frank Wagner Cdt 216 P/O 162 Sgt 162
William Painter P/O 3353
Wes Wise - Major 18, Officer 263 Sgt: 255
Drew Hall Officer badge 3418, Sergeant 44
Tom Cutler 710 police 75 sgt.
Shonda Gooch-williams Cadet 321 officer 3666
Georgiann Sault Police Officer 2246 - Detective 388
Michael Vaughn Sr Police Officer 2152
Mark A. Biscoe Sr.- Officer Badge 2937 - Detective Badge 500
John Poliks Detective 283, Officer 3200 and 1044
Howard Stansbury Patrolman 2569 Detective 877
George Jones Officer 22. Det. 366
Kathleen Ryan Clasing Officer 3779
Ron Burdynski Officer 2480
Bernie Clasing, Officer 1091
Robert Alexander 3271 Patrolman
Mike Maurer Officer 2295
Dana Owensby Officer 2283
Tommy Long Officer 1848 / Detective 13
David Garrett. PO 2823
William Stone Patrolman' 96 Sgt & Det Sgt Badge 425
Herman Earle 1375
Richard James P/O 796, Det. 55, Det. Lt. 42.
Mark Frank Police Officer: badge number: 2688
David Greene Police Officer badge 2326, Detective badge 637
Brian Schwaab Cadet 170 P/O 1377 Det 418
William Walters Cadet 113 Officer 1501 Det 424 Sgt 696
Carl Stambaugh P/O 11
Marc Antonio Marco. 3636
Gary Provenzano 614
Kevin McCarthy 2840
Steven Lehmann Patrolman 3217, Sergeant 352, Detective Sergeant 51
Frank W. Whitby, 87
Bill McKeldin P/O 865
Jesse Goode Officer 2126 Detective 321
Robin Mullins 2147
Andy Stefankiewicz P/O first badge P/O 1495 2nd his father's badge 2285
Lewis Tawney Officer 2912
Myrna Gordon Police Officer badge 99
Joe O'Neill 926 agent. 2179 was my K9 dog’s
Jim Mckinley P/O 1708 Det. 66
Timothy Crowther - P/O. Badge 1388 - SGT Badge 427
Kathy Irwin Conrad Cadet 129 - Officer 1173 and 1605
Martin Seltzer Badge 2564
Larry Fasano P/O 2815
Jake Nickles P/O 1612. Detective 405.
Gary Cichowicz Sr. Cadet 193 officer 1574
Maxwell Anderson III - Police Officer Badge 1251 - Police Cadet Badge 227
Dick Ellwood detective/sergeant badge was 40
Dick Ellwood Sr P/O 555
Timothy B Ridenour Badge 3074
Lawrence K. White P O 60 Detective 700
Scott Wills Officer 2225
Thomas Davidson 288 SGT
Robert Ross P/O 3568, Detective 187 D/SGT 428.
Frederick Bealefeld Sr. Patrolman 237
Chuck Bealefeld Cadet 250 Officer 2834 Detective 475
Dan Gillgannon P/O 2129, Sgt. 199. Also, K9 Bogger aka "Booger" 2212 & K9 Keegan 2581
Richard Allen Detective 240
Marty Disney P/O 1665 - Detective 33
Raymond Wheatley P/O 996
Shawn McKnight P/O 3642. Det 523
Gary D. Starkey P/O 1783
Steve Tilson P/O 3665 Detective 663
Mark Keller P/O 917
Charles Butch Stahm P/O 696
Brenda May P/O 2543 Detective 1846
Missie Brown Edick Cadet 220 Officer 922
Joe Teano Sergeant 355 Officer 1251
Jon Glazerman P/O 2340, Sergeant 303
Jeff Fugitt P/O 1882...Detective 235
Bob O'Connell P/O 2354 Sgt. 376
John Brandt P/O 1111
Al Wilder, K9 Lupo badge K9-592 and Jock badge K9-168
Patrick Deachilla P/O 2025
William Martin P/O 2025
Gwynne Tavel P/O 475
Lawrence Yinger P/O 450
Daniel Coco P/O 262
Paul Scardina P/O 325, then 3249, 3250,
Eddie Mack P/O 2686
Edward Chaney Det 251. P/O 1308
Daniel Popp P/O 1331, Det Lt 69
Keith Blackwell P/O 2106
Donald Muir P/O 1518 Sergeant 188
Amy Jones Middleton P/O 717
Monica Nashan P/O 1084
Jon Walter Jonathan Walter P/O badge 1324
Anthony Wayne McLaughlin PO 26
Harvey Baublitz Officer 2148, Detective 166 and Sergeant 120
Bill Cheuvront P/O 3836
Sean Ruane Patrolman - 2178 & 2176 Detective 486
Melissa Warczynski- Detective 911
William Davis P/O 3523 Det 57 Sgt 1 Det Sgt 21 Lt 121 Det Lt 21 Deputy Major 21 Major 1
Kevin Robinson 283 detective
Michael Mulford P/O 2539
Nick Caprinolo P/O 2304, Sgt 466
Matt Helmsley P/O 1954 Det 759
Shirley Disney Det 84
Larry Gardner P/O 1620
Emmett Jones Lt 10 Det-Lt 10
Earl Kratsch Det 34
David Eastman P/O 51
Scott Keller P/O 3630 Det 92
Michael P. Tomczak P/O 2959 Agent, 18 Sgt Badge 1 Detective Major
Gary Budny P/O 56
Richard Price II P/O 3375 Sgt. 272.
Bob Bigos Patrolman 1722 and Det Sgt 81
David McDermott Officer 101 Detective 183
Sam Heuisler P/O 96
Officer John Moore P/O 177
Officer Fred Dunn P/O 880
William Phelps P/O 3622
Arthur Withers P/O 1080
Rod Day P/O 3413
Sergeant John Schmitt 524
Thomas Higgins P/O 580
Mike Barnes Sgt 49
John Schaffeld P/O 12
Michael McGrath Sr. P/O 3032, Det 614
Nick Tomlin P/O 3534 patrolman, 69 Detective
Kevin Robinson P/O 1039 3226 and Det #283
Sonny Dickson. P/O 2412. Sgt 54. Major 4
Scott Dickson P/O 2197
Michael Vaughn P/O 2152
David Hittle P/O 143
Mike Driscoll P/O 116
Kenny Driscoll P/O 3232 Det 550
Terry Caudell P/O 1828 Sgt 45
Donna Gutberlet P/O 1225 Sgt 50 Det.Sgt 93
Carl Gutberlet - P/O 150 Sgt 150 Det. Sgt. 50 Lt 150 Dist Comdr 1 Chf 1 Col 1
1920/30s thru 1950s Members of the Traffic Section
Badge Numbers, Revolver Numbers and Call Box Key Numbers
George J Luis Lt Badge # UNK Pistol # 321-173 Key # ND 83
Oscar L Lusby Lt. Badge # UNK Pistol # 245-736 - Key # CD 990 - Claw # 3-715
Author R Block Sgt Badge # 28 Pistol # 231-297 - Key # NW128
Charles Gerhold Sgt Badge # 14 Pistol # 295-178 - Key # CD 153
Marion Humphrey Sgt Badge # 58 Pistol # 237-056 - Key # PD 375
John Kellermann Sgt Badge # 174 Pistol # 234-208 - Key # WD 19
Wilbur Martindale Sgt Badge # 100 Pistol # 272-447 - Key # NW 100
Wade Adams P/O Badge # 1097 Pistol # 276-627 - Key # PD 1097
William Adams P/O Badge # 1323 Pistol # 379-945 - Key # PD 1323
Charles Block P/O Badge # 244 Pistol # 268-852 - Key # ND 68
Elmer Bowen P/O Badge # 317 Pistol # 303-815 - Key # PD 317
John T. Bowling P/O Badge # 1004 Pistol # 245-752 - Key # PD 1004
George P Cernik P/O Badge # 4 Pistol # 276-193 - Key # ED 4
George W Clary P/O Badge # 726 Pistol # 337-248 - Key # SW 34
Fred W Dunn P/O Badge # 880 Pistol # 234-364 - Key # PD 325
Frank J Centineo P/O Badge # 662 Pistol # 268-485 - Key # SD 80
Joseph L Crovo P/O Badge # 1061 Pistol # 245-761 - Key # ED 1091
Albert E Dix P/O Badge # 273 Pistol # 330-002 - Key # ND 24
John A Cords P/O Badge # 973 Pistol # 306-528 - Key # WD 90
Edward J Connolly P/O Badge # 1113 Pistol # 344-718 - Key # PD 1113
Ottis Carrol P/O Badge # 237 - Key # CD 237
Carroll J Connolly P/O Badge # 1354 Pistol # 302-875 - Key # PD 1354
Howard E Collins P/O Badge # 1075 Pistol # 268-412 - Key # PD 1075
William Caswell P/O Badge # 234 Pistol # 337-394 - Key # PD 71
John Cordes P/O Badge # 973 Pistol # 306-528 - Key # WD 90
Peter Chrusniak P/O Badge # 1060 Pistol # 332-393 - Key # PD 1060
Albert Dix P/O Badge # 273 Pistol # 330-002 - Key # ND 24
Fred Dunn P/O Badge # 880 Pistol 234-364 - Key # PD 325
Ernest Dunnigan P/O Badge # 831 Pistol # 330-542 - Key # SW 15
Henry Dashhiell P/O Badge # 900 Pistol # 234-193 - Key # PD 333
George H Hueschler Jr Badge # 335 Pistol # 337-323 - Key # NW 165
Henry Emerson P/O Badge # 1119 Pistol # 272-494 - Key # PD 1119
Marion T Elliott P/O Badge # 86 Pistol # 295-145 - Key # ED 86
Oliver R Ellis P/O Badge # 615 Pistol # 245-689 - Key # PD 615
Ernest H Gardner P/O Badge # 101 Pistol # 379-067 - Key # NE 94
Edward J Gruydan P/O Badge # 739 Pistol # 275-211 - Key # WD 739
Phillip A Ganley P/O Badge # 31 Pistol # 344-383 - Key # ED 31
Charles Gerhold Sgt Badge # 399 Pistol # 295-178 - Key # CD 153
Howard German P/O Badge # 611 Pistol# 330-777 - Key # NW 80
Frederick D Gladstone P/O Badge # 1384 Pistol # 206-038 - Key # PD 1384
William Grebner P/O Badge # 439 Pistol # 266-871 - Key # NE 439
William Griese P/O Badge # 408 Pistol # 234-068 - Key # CD 162
Edward Hainke P/O Badge # 859 Pistol # 306-342 and 350-593 - Key # WD 26
Jesse Hood P/O Badge # 1179 Pistol # 275-784 - Key # PD 1179
Edward R German P/O Badge # 611 Pistol # 330-777 - Key # NW 80
Edouard J Gueydan P/O Badge # 739 Pistol # 275-211 - Key # WD 739
Edward Huneke P/O Badge # 501 Pistol # 335-266 - Key # CD 84
Walter L Hughes P/O Badge # 813 Pistol # 295-222 - Key # ED 24
Russell L Hilton P/O Badge # 517 Pistol # 236-418 - Key # NW 144
Moriuam Herm P/O Badge # 115 Pistol # 237-432 - Key # NE 115
Blair Drustorn P/O Badge # 249 Pistol # 266-722 - Key # ND 61
Joseph Novak P/O Badge # 1252 Pistol # 237-461 - Key # PD 1252
Arthur W Plummer P/O Badge # 727 Pistol # 334-986 - Key # SW 86
Joseph J Pessagno P/O Badge # 302 Pistol # 237-762 - Key # WD 87
Frank L Phillips P/O Badge # 503 Pistol # 374-058 - Key # SW 13
Frank J Phankett P/O Badge # 1105 Pistol # 276-204 - Key # PD 1105
Willard E Pyle P/O Badge # 1392 Pistol # 303-331 - Key # PD 1392
Joseph S Reed P/O Badge # 747 Pistol # 336-878 - Key # ND 11
Joseph R Rice P/O Badge # 468 Pistol # 268-220 - Key # SW 468
George E Rudell P/O Badge # 591 Pistol # 265-386 - Key # NW 107
Joseph I Rial P/O Badge # 294 Pistol # 266-657 - Key # CD 48
William F Rumge P/O Badge # 1406 Pistol # 288-393 - Key # ND 51
George W Rudolph P/O Badge # 199 Pistol # 331-048 - Key # ND 16
Charles R Russell P/O Badge # 1061 Pistol # 269-198 - Key # ED 1061
John E Salbeck P/O Badge # 312 Pistol # 234-139 - Key # ED 139
James L Schultz P/O Badge # 753 Pistol # 266-020 - Key # NW 753
Artur V Schwatka P/O Badge # 1146 Pistol # 276-722 - Key # PD 1146
Elmer Schmidt P/O Badge # 1412 Pistol # 430-493 - Key # PD 1412
Thomas F Schamburg P/O Badge # 357 Pistol # 266-882 - Key # ED 357
Edward M Sawyer P/O Badge # 565 Pistol # 234-237 - Key # NW 26
Frank Schrieber P/O Badge # 148 Pistol # 329-508 - Key # NW 23
Raymond S Taylor P/O Badge # 1186 Pistol # 267-171 - Key # SD 21
John H Schafer P/O Badge # 873 Pistol # 234-214 - Key # WD 873
Leslie L Scrivens P/O Badge # 73 Pistol # 295-757 - Key # ED 73
Herbert T Shankling P/O Badge # 1395 Pistol # 306-315 - Key # PD 1395
Russell N Spicer P/O Badge # 436 Pistol # 268-754 - Key # CD 26
Charles H Swayne P/O Badge # 669 Pistol # 334-840 - Key # SD 51
Joseph F Szczublewski Badge # P/O 319 Pistol # 219-656 - Key # HQ 4
John Walstrum P/O Badge # 868 Pistol # 234-220 - Key # PD 300
Ralph B Wareheim P/O Badge # 493 Pistol # 267-242 - Key # PD 201
Lester Weitzel P/O Badge # 1008 Pistol # 245-749 - Key # PD 1008
Herman K Wilcox P/O Badge # 1011 Pistol # 334-832 - Key # NE 66
Edwin Wilson P/O Badge # 896 Pistol # 343-900 - Key # PD 324
Elmer A Hefner P/O Badge # 239 Pistol # 339-995 - Key # PD 239
Charles M Harris P/O Badge # 172 Pistol # 330-054 - Key # NE 31
Thomas S Henderson P/O Badge # 820 Pistol # 332-744 - Key # PD 1268
Clinton M Hyde P/O Badge # 1318 Pistol # 305-685 - Key # PD 1318
Norman Henn P/O Badge # 115 Pistol # 237-432 - Key # NE 115 Claw 3848
Harry F Jeffries P/O Badge # 378 Pistol # 266-253 - Key # PD 378
Frank Johnston P/O Badge # 369 Pistol # 231-093 - Key # CD 123
William Markert P/O Badge # 1221 Pistol # 271-344 - Key # PD 1221
LouIs E Martindale P/O Badge # 1145 Pistol # 276-633 - Key # PD 1145
Joseph A Koenig P/O Badge # 353 Pistol # 268-356 - Key # PD 107
Charles E Krein P/O Badge # 149 Pistol # 337-052 - Key # NE 43
Leroy J Kues P/O Badge # 1377 Pistol # 306-711 - Key # NW 104
Otto Leyhe P/O Badge # 420 Pistol # 267-934 - Key # CD 169
Robert J Long P/O Badge # 388 Pistol # 266-780 - Key # WD 12
Frederick C Lecompte P/O Badge # 272 Pistol # 339-198 - Key # ED 115
Thurlow Maxwell P/O Badge # 974 Pistol # 245-742 - Key # PD 974
Raymond Miles P/O Badge # 242 Pistol # 334-632 - Key # PD 45
William J Miller P/O Badge # 981 Pistol # 245-690 - Key # PD 981
Charles E Morgan P/O Badge # 646 Pistol # 348-519 - Key # PD 646
Vernon McKenney P/O Badge # 990 Pistol # 329-785 - Key # ED 122
Frederick T Mann P/O Badge # 1036 Pistol # 233-880 - Key # ND 60
William H Moudry P/O Badge # 83 Pistol # 267-809 - Key # NW 40
John Moore P/O Badge # 177 Pistol # 276-124 - Key # NE 41
Robert E Muench P/O Badge # 441 Pistol # 331-484 - Key # WD 18
Albert A Moffett P/O Badge # 728 Pistol # 335-102 - Key # SW 81
Joseph Novak P/O Badge # 1252 Pistol # 237-461 - Key # PD 1252
Frank C Orash P/O Badge # 212 Pistol # 337-324 - Key # PD 184
George T Phebus P/O Badge # 275 Pistol # 245-709 - Key # ND 30
Thomas J O'Neil P/O Badge # 730 Pistol # 349-222 - Key # SW 82
Blair P Overton P/O Badge # 249 Pistol # 266-722 - Key # ND 61
Badge Numbers from the Late 1800S to the Early 1900S
Name - Rank - Badge Numbers
Acker, J.J. Officer 279
Andrews, J.O. Officer 203
Andrews, R. Officer 364
Ardisson, H.V. Officer 430
Austin, W.H. Officer 142
Bachman, J. Officer 89
Baker, C.H. Officer 123
Baker, James Officer 160
Barclay, J.L. Officer 738
Barranger, C.J. Officer 751
Bateman, W.J. Officer 4
Batzer, J.A. Officer 372
Baugh, A.A. Officer 87
Begnelle, C.R. Officer 632
Behringer, P. Officer 64
Bell, T.L. Officer 228
Birmingham, H.C. Officer 459
Bishop, C.A. Officer 212
Bishop, E.B. Officer 10
Black, G.R. Officer 880
Blake, James Officer 306
Bliler, R. Officer 452
Blume, C.F. Officer 62
Bohn, W.B. Officer 201
Bohn, W.B. Officer 207
Bond, C.E. Officer 99
Booker, Philip Officer 723
Borden, W.J. Officer 211
Bowers, G.W. Officer 490
Bowersox, C.F. Officer 247
Bowling, W.E. Officer 39
Bozeman, G.J. Officer 53
Brandt, J.C. Officer 125
Broadfoot, W.J. Officer 23
Bruner, Jr. Joseph Officer 485
Buckley, W.J. Officer 311
Burgess, W.H. Officer 309
Burkhardt, J.B. Officer 172
Burman, B. Officer 367
Burns, J.J. Officer 423
Burns, W.P. Officer 382
Busch, William Officer 751
Busick, J.E. Officer 122
Busky, B.T. Officer 102
Buswanger, G.B. Officer 411
Byrne, H.J. Officer 412
Cain, E.J. Officer 26
Carlos, J. Officer 255
Carney, O.P. Officer 482
Carr, A.R. Officer 791
Carroll, A.C. Officer 201
Carroll, F.R. Officer 81
Cash, P. Officer 395
Cassidy, T.R. Officer 748
Caughlin, P.J. Officer 427
Cavanaugh, M.J. Officer 852
Chaffinch, T. Officer 105
Chaney, V.L. Officer 248
Clampitt, W.K. Officer 75
Clancy, J. Officer 202
Coale, J.M. Officer 546
Cole, C.W. Officer 77
Collins, G.W. Officer 47
Collins, T.J. Officer 725
Concannon, J.P. Officer 257
Connor, C.O. Officer 362
Cook, William Officer 80
Cooney, J.A. Officer 645
Coulter, J.F. Officer 304
Crawford, J.A. Officer 49
Croghan, P.V. Officer 22
Crowe, W.J. Officer 234
Cullison, W.T. Officer 495
Cusack, T.E. Officer 209
Daley, J.P. Officer 603
Damitz, J. Officer 57
Daniels, W.J. Officer 106
Dash, A. Officer 398
Davis, G.W. Officer 669
Davis, R.S. Officer 735
Deer, J.H. Officer 717
Deinlein, G. Officer 24
Deiter, N.W. Officer 64
Deitrich, A.C. Officer 83
Deitz, C.L. Officer 606
Delaney, J.R. Officer 487
Dempsey, J.E. Officer 189
Dempsey, J.M. Officer 312
Dengler, George Officer 61
Devan, J.T. Officer 222
Dick, G.B. Officer 346
Ditzel, Charles Officer 421
Dixon, W.Y. Officer 704
Dodson, L.E. Officer 25
Doherty, E.E. Officer 720
Donhauser, Jr. H.A. Officer 40
Donoghue, J.J. Officer 712
Donohue, Daniel Officer 15
Donohue, T.F. Officer 188
Dorsey, C.F. Officer 402
Dorsey, J.B. Officer 762
Downs, J.C. Officer 324
Duerr, V.H. Officer 498
Dugan, J.F. Officer 419
Dunn, D.E. Officer 342
Dunn, James Officer 117
Dunn, W.F. Officer 183
Durfee, A.M. Officer 642
Eberling, Jr. J.G. Officer 708
Egan, M.J. Officer 777
Ehlers, F. Officer 335
Ellis, A. Officer 35
Emerine, G. Officer 153
Ennis, J.R. Officer 14
Eser, C.N. Officer 11
Fanning, F.N. Officer 177
Farley, C.T. Officer 356
Farrell, G.R. Officer 482
Feidt, R.J. Officer 680
Feinour, B.W. Officer 417
Feldpusch, H. Officer 637
Ferguson, W.C. Officer 414
Ferris, Thomas Officer 103
Fields, C.L. Officer 358
Finch, C.H.D. Officer 504
Fishbach, G.A. Officer 626
Fitzmaurice, M. Officer 742
Fluskey, D.B. Officer 235
Fousek, J.J. Officer 320
Frank, P.A. Officer 394
Frank, R.W. Officer 250
Frawley, M.J. Officer 33
Frazier, W.B. Officer 275
Frederick, G.A. Officer 752
Freeburger, A.B. Officer 149
Freeman, E.B. Officer 69
Freeman, R. Officer 289
French, S.J. Officer 283
Frisbie, C.H. Officer 458
Fritsch, G.J. Officer 68
Frock, G.F. Officer 218
Furlong, J. Officer 374
Ganley, Philip Officer 424
Garrett, J.W. Officer 634
Garrigan, J.F. Officer 472
Garrity, T. Officer 300
Gaule, M. Officer 350
Geiger, J. Officer 80
Geisel, F. Officer 152
Geraghty, J.T. Officer 282
Gerlach, William Officer 470
German, F.J. Officer 41
Gill, C.N. Officer 617
Givvins, J.H. Officer 171
Gladden, C.W. Officer 140
Glenn, J.P. Officer 365
Goodwin, J. Officer 714
Goonan, T. Officer 705
Gordon, A.S. Officer 20
Gordon, J.T. Officer 138
Graham, J.T. Officer 15
Gramham, J.A. Officer 604
Grauling, G. Officer 32
Greene, Samuel G Officer 173
Gude, G.E. Officer 228
Guertler, O.E. Officer 154
Guian, J.P. Officer 347
Gumpman, P.H. Officer 640
Haigley, W.H. Officer 700
Haile, F.D. Officer 192
Haley, M. Officer 694
Haley, W.T. Officer 478
Hamilton, A.J. Officer 46
Hamilton, J.W. Officer 43
Hancock, C.W. Officer 100
Hanrahan, T.S. Officer 361
Harden, U.S.G. Officer 696
Hardesty, J.A. Officer 639
Harrigan, M.J. Officer 466
Harrison, C.E. Officer 28
Harrison, P.H. Officer 429
Hartman, John Officer 733
Harvey, H.C. Officer 332
Hauf, A.J. Officer 614
Hauf, G.A. Officer 430
Hawkins, T.E. Officer 727
Hayes, N. Officer 681
Heiderman, C.E. Officer 672
Heinsler, S.H. Officer 96
Hennick, G.W. Officer 502
Hepburn, A.M. Officer 70
Herman, J. Officer 12
Herold, J.L. Officer 170
Higgins, J.T. Officer 218
Hildebrand, W.P. Officer 363
Himmelman, S. Officer 38
Hirshauer, V.E. Officer 194
Hobbs, G.J. Officer 439
Hobbs, S.A. Officer 811
Hobbs, S.S. Officer 584
Hoey, C.S. Officer 123
Hoffman, W.H. Officer 139
Holden, J.S. Officer 174
Holthaus, A.A. Officer 385
Holzer, J.H. Officer 144
Homer, Lloyd Officer 321
Horstman, H. Officer 242
Hoskins, T.E. Officer 678
Howe, E. Officer 384
Hunt, M.J. Officer 740
Hurley, A.F. Officer 466
Hutcherson, J.W. Officer 415
James, W.M. Officer 308
Jamieson, A. Officer 290
Jeffres, J.F. Officer 470
Joeckel, C.C. Officer 58
Johnson, J.T. Officer 2
Johnson, J.W. Officer 484
Jones, C.W. Officer 412
Jones, G.E. Officer 420
Jones, L.K. Officer 146
Kahler, G.A. Officer 180
Kaiss, G.F. Officer 78
Kane, C.J. Officer 405
Kaney, F.J. Officer 648
Kaufman, C.W. Officer 262
Kaufman, William Officer 709
Kearney, A.J. Officer 344
Kearney, Patrick Officer 873
Kearns, J.A. Officer 371
Keck, J.H.W. Officer 114
Keggins, J.T. Officer 73
Kelly, J.E. Officer 352
Kelly, Thomas Officer 27
Kelly, W.H. Officer 588
Kidd, F. Officer 196
Kimball, A.L. Officer 225
King, John R. Officer 747
King, L. Officer 17
King, W.S. Officer 215
Kirby, H.C. Officer 682
Kissner, G.N. Officer 76
Klingenberg, A. Officer 136
Kneavel, C.J. Officer 151
Koehler, F.J.H. Officer 21
Kohler, George Officer 406
Koller, G.S. Officer 451
Krause, Henry Officer 1
Kreisel, W.G. Officer 165
Krotee, W.C. Officer 176
Lamar, G.W. Officer 605
Lamb, Richard Officer 780
Lang, A. Officer 475
Lankford, J.B. Officer 410
Lauinger, George Officer 448
Lawler, J.J. Officer 774
Lawless, T.P. Officer 434
Lawrence, W.E. Officer 716
Leach, C.A. Officer 498
Leitsch, J.V. Officer 373
Leland, Patrick Officer 387
Leonard, J.C. Officer 431
Link, W.F. Officer 651
Linn, J.F. Officer 237
Lisiecki, K.C. Officer 85
Little, R.T. Officer 755
Lookingbill, H.H. Officer 236
Lookingland, G.R. Officer 625
Lucey, J. Officer 55
Lynch, T.O. Officer 381
Lyons, J.H. Officer 455
Lyons, R.B. Officer 340
Mack, D.C. Officer 654
Magee, E.V. Officer 297
Maguire, E. Officer 264
Malone, D. Officer 404
Maloney, M.A. Officer 223
Manning, J.A. Officer 400
Mannion, M.J. Officer 116
Maselkowski, G.A. Officer 334
May, A.H. Officer 72
Mayer, William Officer 690
Mccabe, J.T. Officer 112
Mcclean, F.J. Officer 471
Mccloskey, J.J. Officer 722
Mccloskey, O.W. Officer 775
Mccotter, H.H. Officer 458
Mccourt, C.J. Officer 224
Mcdonell, Harry Officer 328
Mcgeeney, James Officer 284
Mcgrain, J. Officer 303
Mcgrain, T. Officer 260
Mcintire, A. Officer 147
Mcintire, J. Officer 222
Mcintire, J.H. Officer 463
Mckew, M. Officer 657
Mclain, A.L. Officer 230
Mclain, P. Officer 339
Mclaughlin, J.P. Officer 113
Mcmanus, T.H. Officer 480
Mcnamara, P.J. Officer 175
Mcnamee, J.W. Officer 650
Mcneal, M. Officer 802
Mewshaw, J.W. Officer 647
Middleton, C.S. Officer 415
Miller M. Officer 37
Miller, R.H. Officer 330
Mills, W.A. Officer 184
Milske, G.L. Officer 392
Minch, F. Officer 93
Minderlein, C. Officer 422
Mister, J.S. Officer 377
Mitchell, J.H. Officer 486
Mitzel, Jr., J.G. Officer 74
Monks, J.A. Officer 296
Monohan J.J. Officer 551
Moore, E.M. Officer 248
Moore, R.J. Officer 155
Moore, W.H. Officer 86
Moran, L. L. Officer 360
Moran, Thomas Officer 633
Morgan, R.L. Officer 440
Morgereth, H.J. Officer 8
Moyan, P. Officer 713
Mumford, S.J. Officer 443
Murphy, John Officer 835
Murphy, T. Officer 204
Murphy, W.T. Officer 438
Myers, G.E. Officer 124
Myers, W.R. Officer 344
Noel, R.T. Officer 248
Noonan, M.J. Officer 454
Norton, Thomas Officer 883
O'connell, J.F. Officer 288
Oelman, G.E. Officer 609
O'keefe, W.T. Officer 135
Oliphant, J.M. Officer 331
O'neill, F. Officer 218
O'rourke, J.H. Officer 189
Ott, G.A. Officer 104
Ousler, T.F. Officer 418
Patterson, J. Officer 94
Patton, W.R. Officer 308
Pazourek, C.W. Officer 181
Pearce, T.F.G. Officer 316
Pendergast, T.J. Officer 386
Perkins, J.H. Officer 671
Permar, W.R. Officer 244
Perry, W.H. Officer 663
Petticord, W.D. Officer 207
Pfaff, W.H. Officer 699
Pfeifer, H. Officer 197
Pick, W.A. Officer 388
Plantholt, A.J. Officer 183
Pollock, G. Officer 164
Quandt, R.O. Officer 678
Quinn, W.E. Officer 745
Rahn, J.F. Officer 474
Ramsey, T.L. Officer 113
Ramsey, W.H. Officer 31
Ray, C.M. Officer 310
Rever, G.I. Officer 187
Robinson, H.E. Officer 26
Robinson, J.W. Officer 764
Robinson, L.E. Officer 687
Roche, C. Officer 380
Roche, E.J. Officer 38
Roche, J.L. Officer 190
Rodgers, J.W. Officer 435
Roemer, H.J. Officer 677
Roessler, F. Officer 51
Rogers, Coke Officer 768
Rohleder, Charles Officer 503
Ross, P.S. Officer 612
Roth, G.M. Officer 699
Roth, G.M. Officer 693
Rowe, J.H. Officer 622
Rudel, J.C. Officer 477
Rudel, W.W. Officer 450
Ruhl, D.B. Officer 5
Rupprecht, J.J. Officer 217
Russell, F.G. Officer 682
Ryan, J.J. Officer 786
Ryan, J.T. Officer 261
Ryan, James Officer 278
Sauer, G.C. Officer 6
Schaefer, F.B. Officer 728
Schaefer,N.J. Officer 461
Scheflein, A. Officer 80
Schelle, A.W. Officer 258
Schleigh, R.P. Officer 280
Schley,Allen Officer 482
Schlingman, F. Officer 7
Schmidt, G.C. Officer 481
Schmidt, J.C. Officer 413
Schminke, H.P. Officer 433
Schneider, F.E. Officer 18
Schone, W.H. Officer 132
Schrieber, J. Officer 162
Schuster, J.R. Officer 664
Schuster, J.S. Officer 676
Schwarzkopf, H.A. Officer 95
Schwarzman, H.J. Officer 163
Scott, F.C. Officer 154
Scrivner, W.F. Officer 518
Sedicum, A.T. Officer 726
Sedicum, G.T. Officer 701
Seiber, F.L. Officer 409
Seibold, H.C. Officer 428
Seidl, F.N. Officer 13
Seiler, J. Officer 736
Seipp, F. Officer 624
Shanahan, E.A. Officer 767
Sheehey, M.J. Officer 305
Shilling, T.B. Officer 233
Shipferling,F.H. Officer 698
Sinclair, Charles Officer 491
Slaine, J.F. Officer 232
Smith, G.T. Officer 351
Smith, S.J. Officer 743
Smyth, J.J. Officer 336
Smyth, W.R. Officer 29
Sparks, J.B. Officer 98
Spicer, C.W. Officer 319
Squires, W.L. Officer 432
Stafford, J.P. Officer 437
Stallings, C.F. Officer 723
Starkey, R.L. Officer 130
Starlings, F. Officer 729
Stein, J.R. Officer 121
Steinacher, T.F. Officer 744
Steineman, L.J. Officer 732
Stevens, E.B. Officer 591
Stevens, J.H. Officer 706
Stinchcomb Officer 213
Stitchberry, J.L. Officer 268
Stocket, R.W. Officer 416
Storey, A.P. Officer 667
Streb, G.P. Officer 388
Street, K. Officer 737
Stretch, A.J. Officer 688
Strout G.T. Officer 790
Struck, F.A. Officer 447
Stump, J.C. Officer 607
Sullivan, Robert Officer 618
Sutton, B.A. Officer 426
Sweeney, J.J. Officer 337
Swope, J.L. Officer 628
Talbott, L. Officer 706
Tarr, R.S. Officer 711
Taylor, A.J. Officer 254
Taylor, O.M. Officer 145
Teinken, G.H. Officer 127
Tennyson, J.F. Officer 689
Teves, J.T. Officer 478
Thawley, S.T. Officer 178
Thomas, W.L. Officer 318
Thompson, W.A. Officer 198
Thornton, J.P. Officer 724
Tighe, J.B. Officer 428
Timmerman, A.J. Officer 421
Todd, J.D. Officer 220
Trott, J.W. Officer 353
Trott, T.H. Officer 200
Tudor, W.T. Officer 120
Tull, J.C. Officer 241
Tuohy, John Officer 322
Tyson, G.B. Officer 345
Vane, F.B. Officer 228
Vavrina, J.F. Officer 184
Vavrina,J.F. Officer 493
Veitsch, G.C. Officer 256
Velker, G.C. Officer 287
Vickers, B.F. Officer 669
Vincent, W.P. Officer 189
Vocke, L.B. Officer 243
Voegelein, Charles Officer 292
Vogleman, W.H. Officer 621
Walsh, M. Officer 757
Walters,H.R. Officer 282
Wankmiller, J.F. Officer 52
Warmsman, W.F.H. Officer 299
Warner, J.A. Officer 261
Watchman, W.W. Officer 131
Way, J.A. Officer 239
Weber, John Officer 156
Welsh, Luther Officer 731
Werner,W.F. Officer 627
White, J. Officer 716
Wildberger, F.W. Officer 210
Wilkens, J.C. Officer 658
Wilkerson, J Officer 82
Will, G.J. Officer 469
Williams, J.E. Officer 619
Williams, T.A. Officer 681
Wilson, J.F. Officer 334
Wingate, H.C. Officer 214
Winters, George Officer 128
Wisner, J.T. Officer 467
Woelper, George Officer 150
Woods, J.J. Officer 379
Wulfert, J. Officer 349
Yeagle, C.L.D. Officer 535
Yost, Henry Officer 641
Youngheim, F.F. Officer 118
Zehner, W.O. Officer 629
Zeiler, A. Officer 34
Zimerman, Charles Officer 425
Zizwarek, J.F. Officer 185
Badge Numbers Known to be Retired or our of Circulation
1 - 1797 - 3 April 1797 - The first ordinance affecting the police was passed. The year our department was officially founded, 1797 they reserved that year from ever being issued as a badge number. This badge came to us courtesty of Ret Sgt Edward Mattson
2 - 23 - Ret Officer Edward A. Panowitz Sr, 1968
3 - ?? - Ret Officer John McAndrew - 30 June 2011
4 - ?? - Ret Detective Al Marcus - 5 March 2016
5 - 550 - Ret Detective Kenneth Driscoll - 6 May 2018
6 - 390 - Honorary Police Officer 6-Year-Old Vincent Felicebus, Jr - 30 Jan 1957
7 - 2407 - Ret Officer Gerard Heid - for serving 46 years
8 - 293 - Jimmy Halcomb - LODD
We now this list will grow as we gather numbers from fallen officers, so far we are starting with information known, or at least the parts we have so far.
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Timeline of some of Baltimore's Women in Law Enforcement
In the 1915 BPD Rules and Regulations, a Policewoman's job was described as
Rule 20 Page 48-49
Matrons of the Police Force (Policewomen)
1. Matrons of the Police Force (Policewomen), are conservators of the peace and members of the Force; they are amenable to the rules and regulations of the Department in so far as the rules and regulations respectively apply, subject to such modifications thereof, as may from time to time be defined by the Board of Police Commissioners or the Marshall in special and general orders.
2. They would report directly to the Marshal and will perform such special and general duties and make such reports as may be from time to time directed by the Board of Police Commissioners, or the Marshal.
3. Matrons to the Force (Policewomen), shall serve on probation for one year.
Timeline
1912- The first Women Officer was hired under the title of Policewomen was Mary S. Harvey, E.O.D. of June 19, 1912, her hiring was followed by that of Margaret B. Eagleston July 22, 1912
1914 -17 October 1914 - The first female officer shot in the line of duty was Policewoman Elizabeth Faber. As she and her partner, Patrolman George W. Popp were attempting to arrest a pickpocket on the Edmondson Avenue Bridge when they were both shot.
1925 - 28 March 1925 - Two female members of the department were given their first lesson in pistol shooting. Baltimore policewomen received their first lesson in the use of firearms. Lieut. James O. Downes, expert marksman and instructor of the Baltimore Police Department's Pistol Team, explained the use of pistols to the two policewomen. Mrs. Mary J. Bruff and Miss Margaret B. Eagleston were the students who appeared at the Central police station yesterday.
1937 - For the first time in the history of the Baltimore Police Department, women have been advanced to the rank of Sergeant - Mrs. Cronin and Misses Lillie, Lynch and Ryan Promoted, The women, four in number, joined the force during or immediately after the World War, when there was a shortage of men, and functioned for a time as telephone and signal operators. Under terms of a bill signed Friday (28 may 1937) by Governor Nice, they will hereafter enjoy the rank and the pay, which is $46.50 a week as against their previous $40-of sergeants.
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28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
1937- First African American female Violet Hill Whyte, became Baltimore Police Department's first African American female officer hired. She worked out of the Western District for her 30-year career with the department, rose to the rank of Lieutenant. She was promoted to Sergeant in 1955 and Lieutenant in 1967. During her career, she never missed a day of work.
1937 - Four females were promoted to the rank of Sergeant, Mrs. Bessie C. Cronin, Ms. Mae E. Lillie, Ms. Clara Lynch and Ms. Margaret Ryan. First time in Baltimore Police History that a female made the rank of Sergeant.
1945 - 2 June 1945 – Policewoman Ada F Bresnan of the Baltimore Police Department, became the first woman elevated to the rank of Sergeant. Sgt. Bresnan was appointed to the department in November of 1929, and on October 10, 1944, was placed in charge of policewomen after the retirement of Miss Eva Eldridge, who held the post for 15 years. The staff now consists of four white women and two Negroes
1952 - Crossing Guards added, hired in June of 1952, trained and ready to take their posts in September at the start of the new school session. Guards made $25 a week to be paid bi-weekly during school sessions.
1953 - Mrs. Mary E. Hoy, Baltimore City Police Crossing Guard received the department's highest award “The Medal of Honor.” During that time School, Crossing Guards were employees of the Baltimore Police Department.
1966 - 28 Nov 1966 - Policewomen were finally trained for firearm on a permanent basis HERE
1969 - In May of 1969, we have our first father/daughter on the police department. Officer James F. Stevens and Policewoman Patricia A. Loveless
1969 - In October of 1969, we have our first female officer honored by the Criminal Justice Commission. Policewoman Mercedes Rankin
1970 - Helen Mackall - Crossing Guard was awarded the Medal of Honor, first African American women to be awarded the medal, she lost her leg saving a child that was nearly run over. During that time School, Crossing Guards were employees of the Baltimore Police Department.
1973 - 8 June 1973 - Gladys Aye became the first woman officer to enter the academy after the designation Policewoman was dropped and both men and women officers went by the single title of "Police Officer" this also gave female officers the opportunity to be promoted above the rank of Lieutenant. The change from Policeman and policewoman was in the works for nearly two weeks before it was officially announced on 11 June 1973
1973 - 12 June 1973 - The Civil Service Commission authorized the single classification of "Police Officer" to replace the dual designation "Policeman / Patrolman" and "Policewoman / Patrolwoman". This reclassification was a continuation of the department's efforts in the area of equal employment opportunity. (Female "Police Officers" now had the same prerogatives and responsibilities as their male counterparts. Now only one competitive test for promotions is necessary. Thus, a single career ladder was established for all sworn members.)
13 June 1973 Sun Paper Part 1
13 June 1973 Sun Paper Part 2
This article verifies Police Officer Gladys Aye became the first woman officer to enter the academy after the designation Police Woman was dropped and both men and women officers went by the single title of "Police Officer." This also gave female officers the opportunity to be promoted above the rank of Lieutenant. The change from Policeman and policewoman was in the works for nearly two weeks before it was officially announced on 12 June 1973 and Officer Ayes was hired with the knowledge that she would hold the title Police Officer by the time the academy class began.
1975 - 20 March 1975 - Dorothy Woodcock became the first female aerial observer in Baltimore's Fox Trot unit, at the time they felt she could have actually been the first in the state.
1978 - 24 October 1978 - Baltimore Police promoted the First Woman Police Major, Lt. Patricia Mullen, elevated two grades as she became Major Patricia Mullen. Promoted from Lieutenant of the Homicide Unit, Major Mullen was put in charge of Youth Section.
1979 - Officer Linda Flood became the first female assigned to plain clothes in the newly formed Stop Squad, which was responsible for arresting street-level drug dealers. She did not stop there; she would later become the first female African-American aerial observer in the helicopter unit.
1981 - Janice West became the first female officer assigned to the Mounted Unit
1982 - Police Officer Kathy Adams is the first female officer to become a member of our QRT (Baltimore's SWAT).
1983 - 15 January 1983 - The First Woman Promoted to District Commander - Major Bessie R Norris, was promoted to Major and assumed her duties as Commander of the Southwestern District
1983 - July 30, 1983 - The First Female K9 officer is assigned.Officer Charlene M. Jenkinsis handler to Max
1984 - Police Officer Donna M. Cooper was shot on November 2, 1984, and was the first female officer to be awarded the Citation of Valor.
2002 - Police Officer Crystal Deneen Sheffield was the first female officer to die in the line of Duty and also awarded the “Medal of Honor.”
2007 - Deborah A. Owen's promoted to Deputy Commissioner 10/12/2007 highest ranking female
2010 - Deputy Commissioner Deborah Owens was the highest-ranking female in the Department and the only female to reach that rank.
2011 - Officer Latosha Tinsley would be the first surviving female "Officer" to be awarded the “Medal of Honor.” There was a previous female recipient of the award, but while employed by the Baltimore Police department she was acting as a school crossing guard
2018 - LaTonya Lewis promoted to Lt. Colonel 2/9/2018 highest ranking African American female
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Our Ladies of the Law
Woman Appointed Sergeant of Police
Jun 3, 1945
Miss Anna F. Bresnan, Chief of Policewomen of the Baltimore Police Department, yesterday was appointed to Sergeant, by Hamilton Atkinson, Commissioner of the Police Department.
The first woman elevated to the rank of Sgt., Miss Bresnan was appointed to the force in November 1929, and on October 10, 1944, was placed in charge of policewomen after the retirement of Miss Eva Eldridge, who held the post for 15 years.
The staff now consists of four white women and two Negroes.
This was a detail in which Major Bolesta put Sue Ritz and Andrea Nolan on in January 1984. They were decoys for a purse snatching crew that were targeting elderly women in Sector 3 (Cross-country Blvd., Rogers Ave.) While Sue and Andrea walked foot, they were trailed by P/O Joe Drobrashelsky. One night while walking past the Fire Station on Cross-country, the firemen saw Officer Drobrashelsky trailing the ladies and thought he was the purse snatcher. Our fine women in law enforcement had to break cover to prevent their tail from getting a beat down by the fire department.
Baltimore's Finest
Baltimore City Police Department's First, and Second Policewomen
The first women hired under the title of, "Policewomen" by Baltimore City was Mary S. Harvey, E.O.D. of 19 June 1912, followed by Margaret B. Eagleston on 22 July 1912. She traveled the world to inspect how other departments were using female officers and reported back to the Marshal of Baltimore's Police. Mrs. Harvey, passed away on 26 Mar 1934, in Tyron, Craven County, NC. Ms. Eagleston who was the second female officer hired, 22 July 1912, passed away on 3 Oct 1929, while she was still active in the BPD. Policewomen at that time were assigned to HQ under the Police Marshal, and mostly dealt with Social problems, children, other types of crime involving women, as well as challenged individuals.
In 1914 the first woman officer to be shot in the line of duty within our agency was Elizabeth Faber she was shot 18 Oct 1914 on the Edmondson Avenue Bridge (Officer Faber survived her injuries, but resigned less than a year later due to those injuries, and somewhat might today be called PTS or PTSD - Women on the force at that time would not become armed until 1925; a full 11 years after the shooting of this officer, and 13 years after the first woman officer was hired. They were true pioneers in the Baltimore Police Force).
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28 Mar 1925
Policewomen Receive - Firearms Instruction
March 28, 1925 - Baltimore Sun Paper
Two female members of department given the first lesson in pistol shooting. Baltimore policewomen yesterday received in their first lesson in the use of firearms. Lieut. James O. Downes, expert marksman and instructor of the Baltimore Police Department's Pistol Team, explained the use of pistols to the two policewomen. Mrs. Mary J. Bruff and Miss Margaret B. Eagleston were the students who appeared at the Central police station yesterday. Several minutes later the basement of the building resounded with sharp reports (sounds of gunfire) as efforts were made to pierce the "Bulls-eye". The target was 6 feet in distance from the policewomen. Other policewomen will receive their first lesson next week. The distance of the target will be increased as Lieut. Downes plans to make each of five expert shots. With the exception of Mrs. Mary Harvey, none of the policewomen are familiar with firearms. The others are Miss Eva Aldridge and Ms. Mildred Campbell.
30 May 1937
POLICE GET FIRST WOMEN SERGEANTS
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Terms Of Bill Signed Friday
By Nice - May 30, 1937
Mrs. Cronin and Misses Lillie, Lynch and Ryan Promoted Pay to be $46.50. For the first time in the history of the Baltimore Police Department, women have been advanced to the rank of sergeant. The women, four in number, joined the force during or immediately after the World War, when there was a shortage of men, and functioned for a time as telephone and signal operators. Under terms of a bill signed Friday (28 may 1937) by Governor Nice, they will hereafter enjoy the rank and the pay, which is $46.50 a week as against their previous $40-of sergeants. Recipients Listed The recipients of the promotions and their present positions are Miss Mae E. Little, clerk in the office of the commissioner. Mrs. Bessie K. Cronin, Northern District telephone operator. Miss Clara Lynch, Clerk, Missing Persons Bureau. Miss Margaret Ryan, clerk in the police
Headquarters. Miss Ryan is the senior of the four in point of service. She was appointed to the force on January 9, 1917, serving on the headquarters switchboard until she was advanced to the clerkship. She lives in 1100 Block Barkley Street. Appointed Same Day Miss Little and Mrs. Cronin, who live at 4329 Glenmore Avenue and 2716 Oak Street, respectively, were appointed on the same day. October 2, 1918. Miss Little served first as Central District operator before being transferred to the commissioner’s office. Mrs. Cronin has remained at her original post at the Northern district switchboard. Miss Lynch was appointed on January 10, 1921, originally worked at the Eastern district board, and went from there to headquarters.
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First African American Female Hired
Violet Hill Whyte
In 1937 Violet Hill Whyte became the BPD's first African American officer hired by the force. She was assigned to the Northwestern / Western District for her entire career. In 1955 she was promoted to Sergeant and in 1967 she was promoted to Lieutenant, and retired shortly afterward. In The Afro American News Paper, they wrote of her -Baltimore's first Black Policewoman, Lieutenant Violet Hill Whyte, 88 died July 17, 1980, at the Keswick nursing home where she had been since November 1979.Born in Washington, DC Violet Whyte was the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Hill. She was a graduate of Douglass High School and Coppin Teachers College. When she joined the force, she was assigned to the Northwestern District. (The old Western District)Her promotion to Sergeant took place in October 1955 and in the following February she was transferred to the Pine Street station.When the new Western station was opened in August 1959 she was named to head its detail of policewomen. Lieutenant Whyte never wore a uniform and was seldom armed; she worked on a variety of cases on narcotics, robbery, homicides, child abuse, and sexual delinquency.During her 30 years on the force, Lieutenant Whyte never missed a day at work and was willing to go out and work at all hours because she recognized the problems. In a 1963 AFRO-AMERICAN newspaper clipping, Lieutenant Violet Whyte stated: "I'm not afraid of work, my first case was to investigate a homicide and it was successful.” Lieutenant Whyte stated she found it easy to overcome racial antagonism. She received special training in police work in various seminars and universities. She served as commission to study problems of delinquency. During her 30 years on the police force, she proved that time and time again by working 16 to 20 hour days, often starting at 6 a.m. She collected clothing for prison inmates and needy people, made holiday baskets for the needy and counseled delinquent children and their families.
In an Afro-American newspaper report, they wrote of her - Baltimore's first Black Policewoman, Sgt. Violet Hill Whyte, 88 died July 17, 1980, at the Keswick nursing home where she had been since November 1979. Born in Washington, DC Sgt. Whyte was the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Hill. She was a graduate of Douglass High School and Coppin Teachers College. When she joined the force, she was assigned to the Northwestern District. (The old Western District) Her promotion to Sergeant took place in October 1955 and in the following February she was transferred to the Pine Street station. When the new Western station was opened in August 1959 she was named to head its detail of policewomen. Sgt. Whyte never wore a uniform and was seldom armed, she worked on a variety of cases on narcotics, robbery, homicides, child abuse, and sexual delinquency. During her 30 years on the force, Sgt. Whyte never missed a day at work and was willing to go out and work at all hours because she recognized the problems. In 1963 AFRO clipping Sgt. Whyte stated "I'm not afraid of work, my first case was to investigate a homicide and it was successful. Sgt. Whyte stated she found it easy to overcome racial antagonism. She received special training in police work in various seminars and universities. she served as commission to study problems of delinquency.
Photo by Sun Paper Photographer Albert D. Cochran
Women and the Baltimore Police Department 1953
12 June 1952
Here It Is, Girls – The Uniform That Will Stop Traffic Next Fall.
Designed by a woman and approved by 10 men who solemnly discussed such details as skirt lengths, stiff plastic visors versus soft cloth ones, heel heights, etc., this is the authorized costume for the newly created Women’s Auxiliary to the Police Force – The School Crossing Guard – who go on duty when classes reopen in September.
At the invitation of Police Commissioner Beverly Ober, the men, representing The Department of Education, Automobile Club, Safety Council, and Parent-Teacher Associations, met in the Col.’s office in the Central Police Headquarters to okay the outfit adapted by Mrs. Frederick B. Bang, of the Baltimore League of Women’s Voters.
Visor Adopted
There was some talk of an overseas cap, but since that type is used in so many capacities, the one with the visor was chosen.
This, plus a top coat of worsted gabardine, including a zip–in lining for winter, two white blouses, an inch-wide black knit tie, white cotton, and white wool gloves, and the necessary rain-wear comprises the uniform. It will cost about $140 – which the men believe was reasonable enough.
Wear Own Shoes
After a little conversation on the subject of shoes, the men decided “Since comfortable feet are an important factor” to let the ladies wear their own – provided “they are of navy blue calfskin – to match the belt and attached purse – with closed heels and toes and neither perforations nor decorations.” They may be pumps or oxfords.
“The height of the heel makes a big difference to some women,” Col. Ober observed.
The skirts will be 12 inches from the ground. The high visibility yellow rain cape, with a navy corduroy collar, will overlap the black zippered galoshes by 3 inches.
The matching cover will be one of the shoulder length jobs that snaps under the chin, thus protecting milady’s permanent on damp days. And her badge may be attached on both.
Col. Ober made it clear that he is only replacing traffic officers already on duty at school crossings and is not creating any new posts. There are, he explained, no funds available for additional guards.
He also suggested that potential members of the force mention, in their applications, the school in whose area they reside.
The salary is $25 a week will be paid bi-weekly during the school year.
Armed Leg
February 26, 1956
With a heft of the hem, policewoman, Ethel T. Divens, a Baltimore policewoman draws a revolver from a stocking holster in a demonstration. This is one of several types of holsters that are being tested by the Baltimore Police Department. The city's policewomen have been issued guns for the first time; their work is being extended beyond the juvenile cases they handled in the past. The gun is a special designed .32 caliber revolver nicknamed, "The Cobra". Where to hide it is a subject under study at the department. In detective stories, the female officer carries her gun in her handbag. But in real life, this has its disadvantages as the handbag can be snatched – and as our women officers are used as decoys for purse snatchers – and it holds so many other things. Shoulder holsters can be hidden under a suit. But what happens on a hot summer day? The stocking holster is easy to get at but it tends to pull down the stockings, and drawing it could draw too much attention; especially if the holstered gam is shapely.
Mullen Named First Woman Police Major
25 Oct 1978 - Lt. Patricia Mullen, of the city Police Department, was promoted to major making her the highest appointed woman official in the history of the department.
20 March 1975Officer Dotty Woods
First Female Flight Observer in Baltimore's Fox Trot Unit
Possibly in the State of Maryland says source Baltimore Sun
20 March 1975
First Female Flight Observer in Baltimore's Fox Trot Unit
Possibly in the State of Maryland says source Baltimore Sun
20 March 1975
From "Fifteen Years of Progress Donald Pomerleau"1982
On June 11, 1973, the Civil Service Commission authorized the single classification "Police Officer" to replace the dual designation "Patrolman" and "Police Woman". This reclassification was a continuation of the department's efforts in the area of equal employment opportunity. Female "Police Officers" now had the same prerogatives and responsibilities as their male counterparts. Now only one competitive test for promotions is necessary. Thus, a single career ladder was established for all sworn members.
This is the second part of a series featuring women in nontraditional jobs and who are the first of females in their jobs
In 1970 the Baltimore City Police Department had 53 female officers of which 12 were black. By this year that figure had grown to 163 with 91 being black. Females are not only proving themselves as officers but advancing into unique areas within the department and challenging their male counterparts. Three young ladies, Officer Janice West, Carolyn Hawkins, and Sgt. Linda Flood, all served the requested time on patrol before taking on jobs that earned them second looks, and double takes from the citizens they're out there protecting. Janice West, caught Baltimore's attention last year riding through the streets of Baltimore on a horse, she was the first woman to become a mounted police officer. "I chose mounted because it was something different. - I have never been on a horse before. The department was looking for women in that unit so I signed up for it." She recalls having to ride bareback for the first week and falling off, "I kept saying to myself why am I doing this? I should quit…" - "But then I realized what my ambitions were and I told myself to hang in there, the saddle would be better." Janice, a perfect model type, she stands 5' 10" and wears a size 9 dress; having graduated from the police academy in 1977 she was assigned to the southwest district. "There were not many women when I started some people thought I couldn't do the job but I knew I could", she said with an air of confidence, "I had my own way of handling situations, I just talked to people the way I felt they wanted to be talked to." Miss West states, "Most men she meets the idea of a woman having a different kind of career. They like the idea of a woman not being at home, or in the office." Her duties include issuing tickets and working in crowd control situations. Sometimes she comes down off her horse and works on foot at sporting events at the Stadium. "I really feel good about my job, I feel I've accomplished something. But this is just the first phase of what I really want to accomplish" Carolyn Hawkins a 1968 graduate of Carver vocational-technical high school, joined the department because "Insider work just wasn't for me" in high school while setting her sights on a dressmaking and design career, she had no idea she would eventually become a police officer. "Sometimes I felt like the men didn't want us there but I never had any problems." After graduation Ms. flood was soon on our way to achieving several firsts in the department assigned to the plainclothes division in 1979, she was the first female to work in the stopped squad, one of the department's tactical units. -
Then came the job as an Aerial Observer in the helicopter unit, another first and now, of the 55 black police officers promoted as a result of a suit filed by several black officers, Officer Flood now Sgt Flood was the only black female, to be promoted to the rank of Sgt. Currently the highest ranking female is Major Patricia Mullins and Lieut. Bessie Nourse, a 16-year veteran is the highest-ranking black female. Mrs. Violet Hill Whyte who died in July became the first black policewoman in 1937 and never missed a day on the job for more than the 30 years.
23 Dec 1982
Police Promote Women to District Commander
Baltimore Sun paper 23 December 1982
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Police Promote Woman to District Commander
Baltimore city police Commissioner Frank J Battaglia announced several Christmas promotions yesterday, including the appointment of the first woman district commander in departmental history.
Lieut. Bessie R Norris, 49, Dean of students with the department’s education and training division,
The series of promotions was prompted by the upcoming retirement of Col. William L Rawlings chief of criminal investigations division. Col. Rowlands plans to leave the force January 15
Harry C Allender, now a major serving as deputy chief in charge of the central, Southwest and southern districts, was promoted to Col. and will replace Col. Rawlings. The new deputy chief will be Major Calvin Lewis, who is currently commander of the southwestern district.
Major Norris, an 18 year veteran of the force, or replace Major Lewis, in addition to being the first woman district commander, she is also the first black a woman to attain the rank of major.
A native of McBee, South Carolina Major Norris earned her associates degree from the community college of Baltimore 10 years after becoming a police officer. In 1976, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from Coppin State University.
She was promoted to Lieut. in 1978 and served in the criminal investigations and personnel divisions before working of the shift commander at the Northwest district station. She was the first woman to be a shift commander in the districts.
Major Norris has been working in the education and training division since June. She previously worked in the department’s communication division.
In other promotions, Lieut. Joseph T Newman, head of the recently formed and highly publicized narcotics task force, was promoted to Capt. and named as head of the bisection in the criminal investigations division.
Capt. Newman, 36, had been a member of the force since 1969. He has worked in criminal investigations division since 1971. In 1980 he received a bronze star for his work and narcotics.
Mar 26, 1987
Police Career is Big Challenge for Women
Deborah I Greene Sun Staff Writer
The Sun (1837-1987); Mar 26, 1987;
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Linda flood rarely thinks about the years as she spent flipping hamburgers on the grill or pounding away at a keyboard in the billing department of a store.
There weren’t many changes then. Certainly, nothing to compare to the scaling of an 80-foot wall, hovering in a helicopter high above the city, or posing as a decoy for rapist at dark city bus stops.
And when she remembers she is but one of three women lieutenants in the Baltimore City Police Department a force made up of thousands, and a hint of a satisfying smile creeps into the corner of her mouth.
“When I came here 12 years ago you could count the number of women in the department on one hand,” the 35-year-old supervisor said, “then, everyone was skeptical of me because not only did I have to prove myself because I was new, but also because I was a woman.”
During her police career, she has worked with the narcotics squad, the sex crimes squad, the helicopter squad and the internal investigations division.
She also was the first woman to graduate from the department’s tactical squad.
In the past two decades, Baltimore’s police force has been not only a challenge but a viable alternative for women entering the workforce.
Some women officer say that the skills they gather from more traditional roles have prepared them for their job as protectors of society, a career that involves more negotiation than physical confrontation.
“Women have for centuries successfully handled the hardest job in the world and that is being a wife and a mother – often as head of the household,” says agent Arlene Jenkins, a spokeswoman for the Police Department and a mother of two, “to me, that’s probably more difficult than being a police officer.”
“The same dedication and skills women have used in being a wife and mother are those they use in their job as police officers – skills such as negotiating, mediating, and counseling,” Asian Jenkins says. There are about 300 women on the police force currently made up of 1569 officers
officer Bonnie Keller chuckles when she remembers the rigorous 20 weeks of training and a difficult Academy course she undertook at the Academy five years ago.
“We took courses like sociology and psychology and I remember that there was always a lot of running. Running up and down steps, running around the harbor in 90° weather, and lifting tires over your head to build upper body strength,” said the five-year veteran.
“It never got easier but there was always a lot of support among the officers and it was a good feeling to know that the support you encountered in training you hoped you also would encounter on the streets,” says Lieut. Keller.
Some officers develop a “macho attitude” to deal with the skepticism they sometimes face among their peers and the public.
But there are times when a strong attitude is needed.
“Everybody has their own way of acting when you go out on the street. You never know if it’s going to be a simple call return in the something complex,” says officer Shirley Jean Wood.
Some women are reluctant to talk to family and friends about the stress that accompanies their job. Often, in the eyes of their children, they are seen as “supermoms,” balancing a household checkbook in one hand and a nightstick in the other.
Many say that despite their proficiency on the firing range, in combat, or while solving day to day problems for the public, their male counterparts remain skeptical of their achievements.
“I would like to thank that a lot of the old male viewpoint – that this is a man’s job and there was absolute, no room in this profession for women – has changed and is changing,” says Lieut. Bass.
“I think those who thought that a few years ago are learning through experience and observation that is just not so,” he added.
The number of women applying to the force is higher today than they were two decades ago when the Academy graduated a woman once or twice a year. However, the number of women promoted to higher rank in the department still remains low.
In addition to the three women Lieutenants, the department also has a Colonel and two Sergeants.
“You’ve got to be determined,” said Lieut. flood as she squared her white lieutenants, took her place at the podium and led the group of two dozen officers in the roll call
Female Detective makes History in Baltimore
BALTIMORE - Anastacia Oluoch is spending her 59th birthday Monday in a Baltimore jail. And the woman who helped put her there spent the day talking to ABC-2. Baltimore Detective Julie Pitochelli chased the fugitive around the world and finally brought her back to see justice served, making history with the police department. You don't have to tell Julie Pitochelli it's a man's world. As one of the 702 women in the 3,300 member Baltimore City Police Department, she already knows. She explains, "When I first got here I felt like I really had to prove myself." That was 19 years ago. But Detective Pitochelli's latest move has left no doubt about her abilities. She brought back the first international extradition suspect in the department's history, something no man on the squad has ever done. Pitochelli says helping the department hit that milestone isn’t about her gender, "I like people to judge me based on the work that I do, not because I'm a woman or anything else. I like my work product to speak for itself." In this case, it did and it wasn't easy. Pitochelli’s crammed case folder is evidence. With help from the FBI and Interpol, it took the detective five years to bring Anastacia Oluoch back from Africa. Oluoch fled Baltimore and the U.S. in 2007; accused of beating 90-year-old John Taylor, a patient she was caring for. It was a brutal attack caught on tape by the victim's daughter, Jaki. Pitochelli says, "This one was personal. We don't usually connect with family members as much as I did with Jaki. Five years working with her day in and day out, I consider her a friend now." It is a friendship forged in mutual motivation: righting a wrong and serving justice. Jaki pushed and Julie responded, showing the strength to lead a case from halfway around the world, but never losing the sensitivity it required at home. She tells ABC-2, “I have a way of making people feel at ease. They talk to me. They can tell me things they might not tell other police." Pitochelli helped convince Oluoch's family in Delaware to tell police where Anastacia had gone. She says she also helped build the case that had a Nairobi court send her back, “They had to believe we had enough evidence against their citizen to bring her back." The dedicated detective had collected more than enough over the years. Baltimore Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says, "It's refreshing to see how one case inspired her for the last five years to work so hard to bring this woman back to justice." And when it came down to Oluoch's return, it was Julie who got to escort her into Baltimore Police Headquarters. It was an emotional conclusion to an investigation half a decade in the making. Pitochelli says, “It was shocking and relief. I thought, ‘Oh my God, it's finally over’." But even after Oluoch’s return, there were some tense moments. Once back on U.S. soil, Pitochelli had concerns the fugitive would be released on bail. She was eventually held on no bail. Oluoch will be arraigned October 12th in Baltimore.
U.S.A
1865 - 6 women matrons appointed in New York City.
1880/86 - Police matrons appointed in 13 cities.
1888 - Massachusetts passed a law directing the appointment of police matrons in all cities of 20,000 inhabitants.
1910 - First policewoman appointed in Los Angeles
1924 - 145 cities employ policewomen, (Owings)
1927 - Above facts quoted (C.T.F.E.331)
1929 - Census of policewomen in the U.S.A. gives a total of 593} employed by 260 cities and 28 counties* Largest numbers New York 115s Detroit 45* Chicago 30* Washington 23; Los Angeles 22$ St. Louis 18j Cleveland 15. (Report of International Policewomen's Association) Organized as Women Bureaux*
1930 - Crime Prevention Bureau in New York employed 53 women, (C.T.F.E.509)
1934 - “A movement for the permanent establishment of Women's Bureaux in city police departments and appointment of properly trained and qualified policewomen in all communities”
The first woman who has been made a member of a Police Force “lives in St Paul, Minn. Her name is Mrs. Edwin T. Root and she was named a full-fledged Officer of the law by the Mayor of St. Paul” ….. From that information, I would say, St Paul, Minn had the first Woman Officer in the country.
In the 1915 BPD Rules and Regs, a Police Woman job was described as Rule 20 Page 48-49
Matrons of the Police Force (Policewomen)
1. Matrons of the Police Force (Policewomen), are conservators of the peace and members of the Force; they are amenable to the rules and regulations of the Department in so far as the rules and regulations respectively apply, subject to such modifications thereof, as may from time to time be defined by the Board of Police Commissioners or the Marshall in special and general orders.
2. They will report directly to the Marshal and will perform such special and general duties and make such reports as may be from time to time directed by the Board of Police Commissioners, or the Marshal.
3. Matrons to the Force (Policewomen), shall serve on probation for one year.
Photo Courtesy Andy de la Vara
The Female Police Officer to the far left wearing a black dress with white color is "Nancylee Kleine" formerly "Nancylee Wilhelm"
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Calvin McCleese
Saturday, 21 December 2019 05:19
Calvin McCleese
On 5 March 1989 – Retired Officer Calvin McCleese would die effecting an arrest in his neighborhood - For years the toll bridge at the end of Dundalk Ave in Baltimore County was closed, it sat unused and inoperable. Even longer than that it was under the watchful eye of one of our Department’s finest; Southeast District’s Officer Calvin McCleese lived on the corner of Dundalk Ave and Bullneck Rd. just across the street from the bridge and Watersedge Park, the ladies and gentlemen that collected tolls were safe from anyone trying to bring them harm. Even though its location is in the county, like his family, and his post, Officer McCleese protected his neighborhood. He had two sons Michael, and Jeff that would also grow up to be Police.
Calvin McCleese worked his entire career with the Baltimore Police Department all in the same area since his joining in 1957. He started out in Eastern District's Southeast Substation until 1958/59 when Southeast Station House on Eastern Ave. opened. The kind of police Calvin was; on 22 Jan 1970, while patrolling in Highland town, he grew suspicious of a car parked around the corner from The Chesapeake Federal Savings and Loan. Officer McCleese approached the car just as the car’s tag number was broadcast over his radio in a report about a bank robbery at The Chesapeake S&L. Officer McCleese pulled his handgun and single-handedly captured the two men in the car, one of which was armed with a sawed-off shotgun. But that was 1970, and that was the way Officer McCleese worked.
He retired from the department in 1985 and went on to be the typical retired police… He still looked out for his family and his neighborhood… until this day in 1989 when a vehicle being operated by a drunk driver either not knowing the bridge was closed, or just plain lost control, but it hit the bridge embankments, had an accident and his car burst into flames… Retired Officer McCleese ran to the driver’s aid, after breaking the windows and getting the driver out, the driver woke up. Fearing he would be arrested for DWI, and an out of state warrant he decided he would fight the man that just came to his aid and saved his life. Having just fought his way into a burning car, and getting a man out, then realizing the man was drunk, Officer McCleese wasn’t about to just let him go. So he fought back, subduing the individual until Baltimore County Police would show up on scene, laying on top of him pinning him down when police arrived and took over the arrest. Officer McCleese had had a heart attack which he would succumb to on scene. Officer McCleese had held on for as long as he could. His last action in his life was to first save a life, and then to effect an arrest of a drunk driver and wanted fugitive.
Those that knew him, knew how much he loved being a Baltimore Police Officer, the pride he had in wearing our badge, and while he had already been retired for a few years, he died on this day in 1989 doing what he loved best… serving his community. BTW, one of the ladies P/O McCleese was intent on guarding at that toll booth was his wife, Rebecca McCleese the mother of his two sons.
May he never be forgotten as "His service "Honored" the City of Baltimore and the Police Department" God bless and RIP
#BPDNeverForget
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Baltimore Police Collector, Novelty, and Unit Patches
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:06
Baltimore City Patches
Collector, Novelty, and Unit
A Novelty Patch said to have been used during the Raven's Parade Detail
Baltimore Police Motto large
Baltimore Police Motto Small
Breast Cancer Awareness Large
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Baltimore Police Retired Large
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Our 2015 Riot Squad Patch recognizing today's riot police, remembering yesterdays
City that Bleeds w/Red Threads
City that Bleeds w/Pink Threads
SERVICE STARS FOR PATROLMAN AND SERGEANTS
EACH STAR REPRESENTS 5 YEARS OF SERVICE
Photo courtesy Officer Ken Driscoll
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