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Download full textJohnson, Thomas A. – 1999
The story of the Houston (Texas) Police Department is a study of times and changes in the fourth largest city in the United States. This history of the Houston Police Department (HPD) examines the Department's beginnings in 1837. The HPD hired its first black officers in 1873. The Department purchased its first patrol car in 1910. In 1930 the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Females, Law Enforcement, Local Government
