History of the Police

In the late 1800’s between the early 1900’s the history of the police was almost nonexistent. Most people that lived in that time period believed that they were going to have to take the protection and investigation of the police in their own hands. Yet in the 1880’s the idea of the big city and leisure time in to the American society. In cities such as Los angles, Baltimore and Chicago, in all of these cities leisure would change the police business for good.

Rush St. bridge

Leisure was known to be time for relaxation and time to take a break from work.  Life in the big city was hectic and unlike small towns where everyone knows everyone, the city life is more unanimous and it is vibrant where you can get away with many things without people knowing that the crime was you.  In the city of los angles the policing occupation was not a popular job at the begging of the century. The city had over 100,000 people and there were only less than 70 officers to account for the whole city. The cities political system was corrupt because of this; the mayor had a lot of control over the poli^th century there was a man named Charles E. Sebastian who was the new police chief. He made the rule that there had to be at least 200 sworn officers in the department at one time. During this time the LAPD went through a tough change with many new influenced such as the automobile (the flying squad). The flying squad was known for this because they drove around in supped up cars to help put down violent riots. The LAPD had one of the largest amount of officers on duty yet they still have one of the highest kill rate of officers, over 2% of sworn officers are killed in action each year.

ce department and its staff. Yet in the begging of the 19

Baltimore police headquaters

The Baltimore Police Department was much different than the Los Angeles Police Department in the turn of the Century. The Baltimore PD was more modern that the Los Angeles, they started to innovate much sooner than any of the three Departments. In 1885 they created box system. This would help with communications between officers on the street to the “station house” this would be better for the city because when a violent uprising would occur they could radio It in quicker. On October 25, 1885 the first patrol wagon went out and soon after that the harbor patrol was established. The city started to have many new ideas and divisions

go out such as; in 1903 the traffic division was developed.  In 1913 a police academy was established, in 1920 the board of Police commissioners was creating electing General Charles D Gather as the first commissioner. And finally in 1915 the, motorcycle unit w
as developed. The Baltimore PD had a very tough area to protect including 78.3 square miles of land and 7.7 miles of water ways that they had to protect adding up to a total of 83 miles that was in there jurisdiction. The Baltimore PD was not the largest but it was one of the most innovative. 

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1915 motorcycle cop

The Chicago police was one of the most welcoming police departments in the nation. In the year 1877 the first black officer was sworn into the force and soon after in 1885 the first woman entered the force. They were known as “policewomen” and there main purpose was to work with women and children in the field because they were known to be more gentle and caring. The wealthy subdivisions of Chicago were very afraid of all the violent protests so they set up a private police services. This was a eye opener to the Chicago PD so then they started to ramp up the officers to join the force. The force was not known to be the best in the area with a reputation that the officers would be lounging in saloons and streets. But in 1904 Captain Alexander Pipers made a investigation about the officers which ramped them up to be one of the largest police departments in the nation with a whopping 3,314 employees in 1907 averaging 30 arrests per officer. In 1910 the officers of the Chicago PD start to have formal training and the average patrol hours a week were 63. This new work ethic created a masculine environment which still is in effect to this day. But starting in the 1920’s the new Prohibition started to bring federal agents to the city.

1887 wagon patrol 

A federal agent. When most people think about a federal agent they think of the FBI the biggest federal agency, created in 1908 or the CIA well before the Secret service  started to protect the president in 1894 they were a special group of agents who were detective tracking down The Klu Klux Klan, train and bank Robbers, and also alcohol smugglers. They were a small and deadly group who had to be tacitly prepared for anything. The influence of the federal and private police was a huge influence before the rise of the police in big city’s at the turn of the century. They were hired by wealthy businessmen or neighborhoods for protection. Yet there was still one thing that gave the private police such a good name. “The railroads were a major employer of private security agents, especially because the railroads covered such a vast expanse of rural area” (Stephenson 21) 

The police in the turn of the century was a huge impact on the life of the people in big cities. The anonymousness of the bug city attracted the criminals but the police responded coming up with bigger and better things, innovating and creating machines that can keep up with the outlaws. 

·         LAPD –I used this to find out the differences in the Los Angeles Police Department.

·          Baltimore police department –This gave me a lot of information about the changes in the police department and also gave many dates to go off of and all of the modernization that Chicago went through.

·         Chicago Police Department – I found this web site which gave me many ideas that I could use to compare the Chicago police department to all of the other departments that I picked.

·         Wages- I found this in which it gave me a idea of the wages and retirement options that the officers had in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s.

·         American History -  I used this to use some of the reasons that the police started to rise in this time.

·          Policing in America-  I found many things in this book nut mostly found about the federal police but mostly focused on the secret service before they started the protection of the president. 

Andrew Carnegie was one of the most powerful people in the 1900's. Through is wealth his goal was to make the lives of everyone better through education, global unity and Ethics matter. In the Carnegie Institute in Washington, the Institute gives grants of money to help scientists come up with new scientific studies. Also the Carnegie Library is an important idea to the building a education because it gives the community new ways to build there knowledge. My opinion of this approach is that it is a good way to help people because they have to build there own life. Yet the problem with this idea is that what if people are hungry? the education that they are giving them cant feed them, therefore the starving people that aren't getting fed. If I had the money that Andrew Carnegie  had I would give a lot to the poor so that they could get food.

 CRAZY HORSE 

       by: Griffin Peek    

              Crazy horse was considered to be a huge impact to the Indian way of life in the 1800’s. His real name, Tasunke Witko, was born in the black hills of South Dakota. At the age of thirteen he was already stealing horses from the crow Indians and was then given the name crazy horse. He was considered to be a shy man but who was a son, pupil to red cloud, a brother but most people knew him to be a leader.

            His conflict with the settlers first started when the settlers wanted to build the Bozeman trail when they first realized that there was gold in the Black hills of South Dakota. The Bozeman trail was to be built right through the buffalo hunting fields of the Lakota people also known as the Sioux nation. He was not happy about this because tribe life had already begun to change in the 1850’s and it started to change rapidly. For the white man to take away the buffalo hunting that was the same as killing the people, because that was there main source of food and recourses. The Lakota people decided that they were going to move farther in to the “hills” to live away from the settlers.

Crazy Horse 

            Crazy horse was known for many things he was known for his leadership and grit, but for someone to have those qualities you need something else that come with it. That is courage; crazy horse was known to be one of the bravest warriors that ever lived. He would charge into battle 40 yards in front of the other warriors that shows how much the tribe looked up to him and how he had a “mystical ability to avoid injury or death on the battle field.”(BIO) He fought in many war and battles such as the battle of bull run and many more. After the death of Red cloud, Crazy horse was promoted to the tribes “shirt wearer” he was now the leader of the Lakota people and tribe loved him. But when he was caught trying to steal another man’s wife he was removed from shirt wearer but the people of the tribe still loved and praised him the same.

            Crazy horse was one of the best warriors that the Sioux people had and him most famous battle was know all around the United States as the Fetterman massacre. In the early 1870’s the government was trying to put all of the Indians in Oklahoma known as Indian Territory. They were put on reservations. Crazy horse was not okay with the idea that he would be moved from his land. The fetterman massacre was the attempt by the government to control the Indians in the black hills of South Dakota. Eighty men under the command of Fetterman marched into the hills trying to force Crazy horse to the reservation.  Crazy horse and his men killed all eighty of fettermans men and before they could get to fetterman he committed suicide and the massacre was over. This was heard all around the United States and was for ever known as a huge embarrassment to the government. After the massacre the government ended the Bozeman trail in 1867 and that was the end.

Hunting Buffalo 

          Ten years later the Government chased Cary horse out of the black hill as crazy horse retreated to Montana to meet up at the main Sioux encampment where the leader Sitting Bull. AS sitting bull retreated Crazy horse decided to fight eventually surrendering to the reservation. The final years of Crazy Horse’s life he was nearly starving but losing his rebellious attitude. In a final attempt to get his third stick nearly dead wife to his parents he was caught and was accused of running off the reservation. As they took him in saw the jail and as he tried to get free and was stabbed in the kidney with a bayonet and he died on 

        September 5, 1877 with his father by his side. He was a great warrior and he did not want to do what the white government also known as the “white man” wanted them to do. he was a rebel and he knew what was right. The settlers wanted to take their land from them and they believed that the white man should pay. He was fighting for a good cause and all he wanted was for his people to have the land they deserve and to make them happy.

The black hills of Montana 

Sources:
PBS.crazyhorse

Bio.crazyhorse

Encyclopedia Britannica- fetterman massacre

Encyclopedia Britannica- crazy horse

History reference center. Crazy horse  

After Columbus- The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indians: 970.004

The west was known to be a free, wild frontier where people could go to start over and get land for cheap.  The paintings by the “rocky mountain school” showed extravagant landscapes which were not true. Most people thought that no one lived in the west but many types of people lived there they were not expecting this which caused so competition which brought the military into the west clearing out places for Americans to live. The West was falsely composed but because of all of the picture and the book “The Virginian” the west and the American Cowboy was shown as a rugged place full of rigged individuals. 

As people moved towards the West they weren't ready for what they expected. The people were expecting vast landscapes with lots of farming land. This is where the idea of a cowboy and the free man arose from the press. When the settlers got to the West they found things they weren't expecting like Indians, Chinese, Canadian, Hispanic and many other types of people whom had taken all of the good farming land.

The idea of the cow boy was a rugged individualist who did what he wants and was manly. The cowboy was a respected person who was a hero in stories and was displayed as a southern gentleman type of attitude. Yet many people didn't know about the real cowboy.. A real cowboy was at the bottom of the social ladder and he was the lowest paid job anyone could find. They worked with cattle all day with many physical pains and loneliness was a major factor. It boiled down to if you lived in the west being a cowboy was the last thing that you would want to do. Most people think that a cowboy fights Indians and he stands up for his self. This was wrong if you were a cowboy you most likely didn't have a gun and you were afraid of Indians. The idea of a American cowboy was displayed in the book “The Virginian” which was later made as a movie and later on into a TV series. The idea of the American cowboy was falsely shown much like the Idea of  the west.

       Growing up in the south in history class we learned about all of the different challenges that the southerns faced after the war. The things I knew about the post civil war before chapter 15 were small details such as: the land in the south was not good because of all of the cotton plantations that we had before and during the war. This cash crop was not good for the land and destroyed the soil, this put a harsh drought to the southern farmers and it prevented them from having a good crops after the war and this was no good for the southern economy. After reading and studying chapter 15 I learned that president  Lincoln was going to be one of the biggest resources of the south because he was going to be good on the southerners and not "punish" them for the war they had caused. When booth shot Lincoln everything changed. Grant was a military leader and he wanted to punish them. He decided that there would be five military districts in the south all ran by a commissioner.

     
      The southerners did not like this one bit and felt controlled. I did not know that the south was under this much of control after the war. As the federal government came down on the south everyone went in debt especially the farmers because if they want to put crops in the ground they need money that they don't have.  I feel that is it important that it is good for the people that line in the south to know about our heritage. If we know about our heritage we know how we got to be where our economy is in the south. We learn about all of the segregation that happened only a few years before we were born- on a large scale- and we now know all of the sacrifices that not just the southerners took but also the African Americans had to take to be free and fight for there voting rights.

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For this project we had to create a video using Animoto on what American means to us. Growing up in the south we love our fried chicken and veggies. We also love out heritage and farming. My friends and I love to go to the farm and redneck body board and ride four wheelers. I think that this project was a more open way because it’s not what you know about America, it’s about what it’s like and what it means to you. 

final for mrs. lawson

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