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| x Theodore Roosevelt |
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Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive...
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| x Charles Moose |
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Charles Alexander Moose (born 1953) is an American law enforcement official and author. A native of New York City who grew up in North Carolina, he has served as the chief of police for Montgomery County, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon. During...
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| x August Vollmer |
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August "Gus" Vollmer (March 7, 1876 - November 4, 1955) was a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century. He was also the first police chief of Berkeley, California.
Vollmer was...
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| x Orlando W. Wilson |
Orlando W. Wilson (1900 - 1972) was a student of August Vollmer and is associated with the founding of the academic field of criminal justice. Was appointed superintendent of the Chicago Police in 1960 by Mayor Richard J. Daley. The United States'...
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| x Bernard Kerik |
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Bernard Bailey "Bernie" Kerik (born September 4, 1955, Newark, New Jersey) is a former American law enforcement officer. Kerik was New York City Police Commissioner from 2000 to 2001, under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In December 2004, President George W....
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| x James Traficant |
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James Anthony Traficant, Jr. (born May 8, 1941) is a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio (from 1985 to 2002). He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered around his hometown of Youngstown and...
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| x Heather Fong |
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Heather Jeanne Fong (born 1956) is the former chief of police for San Francisco, California, United States. She is the first woman to lead the San Francisco Police Department, and the first Asian American woman to head a major metropolitan city...
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| x Bull Connor |
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor (July 11, 1897, Selma, Alabama – March 10, 1973) was a Democratic Party politician and police official from the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement.
As the Public Safety Commissioner...
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| x Tom Potter |
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Tom Potter is the former Mayor of the city of Portland, Oregon in the United States. He was elected in 2004, and left office in January 2009. He was succeeded by City Commissioner Sam Adams. Prior to Potter's service as mayor, he was Portland's...
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| x Tim McCarthy |
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Timothy J. McCarthy (born June 20, 1949) is the current police chief of Orland Park, Illinois and a former member of the United States Secret Service. He is most famous for turning into the line of fire, shielding President Ronald Reagan and taking...
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| x Kathleen O'Toole |
Kathleen M. O'Toole is the Chief Inspector of the Garda Inspectorate, set up to audit Ireland's national police force, the Garda Síochána and report to Ireland's Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on changes to improve efficiency in line...
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| x Fred Heineman |
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Fredrick "Fred" Heineman (born December 28, 1929) was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, serving between 1995 and 1997.
Born in New York City, New York, Heineman attended Mt. St. Michael High School in Brooklyn. He then entered...
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| x Denver S. Dickerson |
Denver Sylvester Dickerson (January 24, 1872 – November 28, 1925) was born in Millville, California.
He came to Nevada after serving in the Spanish American War. Dickerson served as a clerk and recorder for White Pine County, and later owned and...
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| x Eldrin Bell |
Eldrin Bell is the former police chief for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, and was elected in November 2004 to serve as the county commission chairman for nearby Clayton county. He is also the father of former American Idol contestant Justin Guarini....
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| x Lee Donohue |
Lee Donohue (born September 16, 1942) is the former Chief of the Honolulu Police Department and is a resident of Hawaii Kai, Hawaii, United States. He is half Irish, half Korean. He is married to Lucille Park. They have two sons and two daughters....
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| x Raymond W. Kelly |
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Raymond Walter Kelly (born September 4, 1941) is the current Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the first person to hold the post for two nonconsecutive tenures. Kelly spent 31 years in the NYPD, serving in 25 different...
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| x Tunney Hunsaker |
Tunney Morgan Hunsaker (September 1, 1932 – April 27, 2005) was the police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia in 1960 when Hunsaker was Cassius Clay's (now Muhammed Ali) first opponent in a professional boxing bout. Hunsaker lost a six-round...
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| x Charles H. Ramsey |
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Charles H. Ramsey (born 1950), is the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. Prior to assuming that post in January 2008, he had served as Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) from 1998 to 2006....
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| x Frederick Dent Grant |
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Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary. Grant was the first son of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. He was named after...
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| x David Hennessey |
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David C. Hennessy (1858 – 16 October 1890) was an anti-Mafia crusader and police chief of New Orleans, Louisiana. His assassination in 1890 led to a sensational trial. A group of not guilty verdicts shocked the nation, and an enormous mob formed...
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| x William J. Bratton |
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William Joseph "Bill" Bratton (born October 6, 1947) is the chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He previously served as the New York City Police Commissioner and Boston Police Commissioner.
In September 11, 2009, he was...
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| x Dan Oates |
Daniel J. Oates (born 1954 or 1955) was the Chief of Police and Safety Services Administrator for the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Oates was appointed Chief of Police on August 20, 2001 after serving 21 years in the New York Police Department. In...
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| x Jerry Sanders |
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Gerald Robert "Jerry" Sanders (born July 14, 1950) is a Republican politician, Mayor of San Diego, California, and former Chief of Police.
Sanders was born 1950 in San Pedro, California. He went to San Diego State University and was a member of the...
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| x Harry Gilmor |
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Harry W. Gilmor (January 24, 1838 – March 4, 1883) served as Baltimore City Police Commissioner in the 1870s, but he was most noted as a Confederate cavalry officer during the American Civil War. Gilmor's daring raids, such as The Magnolia Station...
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| x Richard Perkins |
Richard Perkins is a former scientist at Hanford in Washington State. His work includes that on several reactors and opperation "star wars." Also, he was one of very few scientists to work with the first moon rocks.
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| x Clarence Harmon |
Clarence Harmon was the forty-fourth mayor of St. Louis (from 1997 to 2001), and the city's second African-American mayor.
Prior to serving as Mayor, Harmon had served as St. Louis Police Department police chief. He defeated incumbent Mayor Freeman...
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| x Eddie Compass |
P. Edwin Compass, III is a former Chief of Police of the New Orleans Police Department.
He resigned as Chief of Police on September 27, 2005. Compass, who earlier said he was organizing a tribunal to handle the cases of 249 officers who left their...
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| x Teresa Chambers |
Teresa Chambers was the Chief of the United States Park Police from February 2002 until December 2003. She was fired after speaking with a Washington Post reporter in detail about her concerns that new requirements instituted by the United States...
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| x Frederick Kohler |
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Frederick Kohler (May 2, 1864–January 30, 1934) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 40th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1922 to 1923. He was born in Cleveland to Christian and Fredericka Kohler. As a teenager, he left...
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| x William Obanhein |
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William J. Obanhein (October 19, 1924 – September 11, 1994), sometimes better known as Officer Obie, was the chief of police for the New England town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Stockbridge police force for 34 years,...
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| x Herbert Jenkins |
Herbert Turner Jenkins (June 7, 1907 – July 20, 1990) was the longest serving police chief of Atlanta.
He was an automotive pioneer in Atlanta, working at its earliest car dealership. That experience led to his last book.
He joined the force in 1932...
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| x Alex Fagan |
Alex Fagan, Sr. is the former Chief of the San Francisco Police Department. Fagan was implicated in the Fajitagate scandal in November 2002. Three off-duty San Francisco police officers, one of whom was Fagan's son, Alex Jr., were accused of...
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| x Thomas Lafayette Houchins Jr. |
Thomas Lafayette Houchins Jr. (November 2, 1923, Oakland, CA - February 13, 2005, Castro Valley, CA) was sheriff of Alameda County, CA in 1975-1979. He gained some notoriety as a tough sheriff in his dealings with Berkeley, California protestors in...
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| x Charles Plummer |
Charles C. Plummer served as the sheriff of Alameda County, California from 1987 to 2007. He is believed to have been the longest serving peace officer in California with more than 50 years of continuous service. He is considered a "legend" by many...
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| x Ella Bully-Cummings |
Ella M. Bully-Cummings (born 1958) became the first female police chief of Detroit, the tenth-largest police force in the United States, when Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appointed her on November 3, 2003.
She is married to Attorney William Cummings, a...
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| x Robert Duffy |
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Robert J. "Bob" Duffy (born August 21, 1954) is the Democratic mayor of Rochester, New York. He was elected the 65th mayor of the city in November 2005 and took office on January 1, 2006. Prior to running for office, Duffy served as the city's...
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| x Thomas Reddin |
Thomas Reddin (June 25, 1916 – December 4, 2004) was a Los Angeles Police Department chief from 1967 to 1969. He left May 6, 1969, to become a news commentator. He also owned a private security company in Los Angeles; Tom Reddin Security.
Reddin...
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| x Roger E. Murdock |
Roger Eugene Murdock (July 27, 1909 – July 2, 1995) served as interim LAPD police chief in 1969 after Thomas Reddin had left to pursue a job in the media industry. He graduated from Los Angeles High School and USC, where he earned a degree with...
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| x Willie L. Williams |
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Willie L. Williams (born 1 October 1943) was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Williams was the first African-American police...
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| x Fred H. Lau |
Fred Lau (born June 26, 1949) is a former chief of police for San Francisco. He was the first Asian American to ever hold the position of police chief. He was in charge from 1996-2002. He is currently the TSA Federal Security Director, Oakland...
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| x Karl Clark |
Osby Karl Clark, or Karl Clark (October 16, 1957) is an American police officer from North Carolina, and a former police chief, best known for his service on international assignments with the International Police. Best remembered as a member of the...
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| x Jim Purcell |
“Diamond” Jim Purcell was the Chief of Police in Portland, Oregon during the 1950s.
Purcell was an associate of Jim Elkins, a Portland mob boss, and helped protect Portland's pinball racket and other organized crime activity in the city. In this...
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| x Reuben Greenberg |
Reuben Morris Greenberg, born in 1943, was the first Black police chief of Charleston, South Carolina, and known for being an innovative criminologist.
He was police chief there from 1982 until his retirement in 2005.
Originally from Texas,...
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| x Jesse Curry |
Jesse Edward Curry (October 3, 1913 – June 22, 1980) was chief of the Dallas Police Department at the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through a motorcade in downtown Dallas, and his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was...
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| x Ed Norris |
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Edward T. Norris (b. April 10, 1960) is an American radio host and former law enforcement officer in Maryland. His talk show, the Ed Norris Show, airs on WJZ-FM (105.7 The Fan) in Baltimore, Maryland. Norris, a 20-year veteran of the New York Police...
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| x John Timoney |
John F. Timoney (born c. 1948) is the current (as of 2006) Chief of Police of Miami. On June 19, 2007 he was elected to head the Police Executive Research Forum for a period of two years, replacing LA Police Chief William Bratton.
Timoney was born...
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| x Rip Collins |
Harry Warren (Rip) Collins (February 26, 1896 - May 27, 1968) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees (1920-21), Boston Red Sox (1922), Detroit Tigers (1923-27) and St. Louis Browns (1929-31). Collins...
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| x Thomas K. Casady |
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Thomas K. Casady (born August 11, 1953) is the Chief of Police for the Lincoln Police Department in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Tom Casady has served Lincoln as Chief of Police since January 1994. Chief Casady began his law enforcement career as a Lincoln...
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| x Nick Pastore |
Nick Pastore served as chief of the New Haven, Connecticut police department from 1990 through 1997, during which period he gained national attention due to his successfully implemented policy of community policing, a contrast to the quasi...
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| x Carl Pusser |
Carl Pusser (July 24, 1906 – January 2, 1978) was the father of the famous lawman Buford Hayse Pusser and husband of Helen Pusser (1908-1987). He worked as a farmer, later becoming Police Chief of Adamsville, Tennessee.
He was the technical...
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| x George W. Matsell |
George Washington Matsell (1811-1877) was a 19th century American law enforcement officer and the first commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
Born the son of English immigrants from Norfolk in New York City, New York, Matsell worked...
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| x Emmett Goodwin |
Emmett Goodwin was the chief of police of Chickasha, Oklahoma killed while on duty the night of February 1, 1909, in front of People's Store on Chichasha Avenue by Chickasha night police chief Will Thomas.
Previously, Thomas had lost the election of...
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| x Orlando Winfield Wilson |
Orlando Winfield Wilson (May 15, 1900-October 18, 1972), also known as O.W. Wilson, was an influential leader in policing, having served as Superintendent of Police of the Chicago Police Department, chief of police in Fullerton, California and...
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| x Frances J. Ahern |
Frances J. Ahern (1899 – 1958) was the San Francisco Police Chief from January 1956 to September 1958.
Appointed by mayor George Christopher's police commission, Ahern, with the rank of patrolman, was elevated to chief over every captain, lieutenant...
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| x Terrance W. Gainer |
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Terrance William Gainer (born 1947) the 38th and current Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate and has served in this appointment since January 4, 2007. Before Gainer continued his law enforcement career in Washington, D.C., he was the...
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| x Cathy L. Lanier |
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Cathy L. Lanier is the Chief of Police with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC). Washington, D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty appointed Lanier to replace outgoing Police Chief Charles Ramsey. Lanier is the first female MPDC...
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| x Benjamin Ward |
Benjamin Ward (August 10, 1926 - June 10, 2002) was the first black New York City Police Commissioner. Ward was one of 11 children and was born in the Weeksville section of Brooklyn, New York.
Drafted into the Army after graduating Brooklyn...
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| x Richard Pennington |
Richard Pennington (born 1947, Little Rock, Arkansas) has been since 2002 police chief of Atlanta, Georgia. From 1994 to 2002 he served as police chief of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pennington grew up in Gary, Indiana. He began his career in law...
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| x Prentice E. Sanders |
Prentice E. Sanders, also known as Earl Sanders, was Chief of Police of the San Francisco, California, USA Police Department for fourteen months in 2002 and 2003. He was born in Texas and moved to San Francisco's Laurel Heights at the age of...
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| x John Ferdinand Bockman |
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John Ferdinand Bockman (October 31, 1891 - April 28, 1924) was an American police officer, and the only police officer to be killed in the line of duty in the town of Libby, Montana.
On the evening of Monday, April 28, 1924, a Great Northern Railway...
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