This book examines the beginnings of the political era of policing in St. Louis, the reasons for the police department s establishment, and the inner workings of the department during that era. It also integrates that story with the history of St. Louis and even the state of Missouri. At one time or another 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 ...
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This book examines the beginnings of the political era of policing in St. Louis, the reasons for the police department s establishment, and the inner workings of the department during that era. It also integrates that story with the history of St. Louis and even the state of Missouri. At one time or another 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. This book is the history of a police department that was born at the beginning of the Civil War and, as the political era ended in St. Louis, was policing the fourth-largest city in the United States."
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