“What’s the Deal With; the Creation of the Inspection Districts”
One thing for certain is that in the latter half of the nineteenth century few, if any, changes in the Police Department of the City […]
Month: May 2017
A Civil War Veteran’s Rise Through the Ranks of the PDNY to Lead the Department; Peter Conlin’s Clean Record & Career
In the preceding blog post the post-Civil War career of Captain Edward Carpenter, whose career was tainted by a conviction for bribery in an era […]
A Nineteenth Century Police Captain’s Rise and Fall; Captain Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter’s career in the post-Civil War Police Department of the City of New York is one of many examples in a study of an […]
A Brief History of the Mounted Police Association of Greater New York, Inc. & Ban of Honorary Members of Police Associations
In the first decade of the twentieth century, The Police Department of the City of New York (PDNY) permitted the formation of its first […]