Good Order and Safety: A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861-1906

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The history of policing in america is in most cases divided into three eras. The first, the political era, took place in St. Louis between 1861, when the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was once established, and 1905 1906, when a reform governor thrust St. Louis into the reform/progressive era. This book examines the beginnings of the political era in St. Louis, the reasons for the police department s establishment, and the inner workings of the department all over that era. It not only is the story of the early police department but also integrates that story with the history of St. Louis and even the state of Missouri.
In the late 1800s, the city government of St. Louis had not yet evolved into what we know nowadays. The most brand new invention to be had to the police department was once the telegraph system. At one time or any other the lack of the appropriate city departments turned police officers into sanitation officers; street, building, privy, dairy, and meat inspectors; dogcatchers; census takers; and enforcers of the city tax codes and licensing laws. All these duties dwindled as the twentieth century dawned and city government took over almost all responsibilities but law enforcement. This book is the history of a police department that was once born initially of the Civil War and, as the political era ended in St. Louis, was once policing the fourth-largest city in america.

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