Houston blue : the story of the Houston Police Department / / by Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | North Texas crime and criminal justice series ;
no. 8 |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 486 p. |
| Notes: | "Back in 2005, the board of the directors of the Houston Police Officers' Union commissioned Mitchel Roth, Ph.D., and Tom Kennedy to research and write a book that chronicled the history of the Houston Police Department and the Houston Police Officers' Union."--Foreword. |
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Table of Contents:
- Baghdad on the bayou
- Houston, USA
- Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of HPD
- Houston's crime problem
- The marshal becomes the chief
- Murder was in the air
- The bloodiest day
- HPD and the Klan
- The Prohibition years
- Reorganization
- Percy Heard and the war years
- Post-War HPD
- The old gray fox's whim
- Secret leaders and 1269m
- A sergeant becomes chief
- Political winds
- Herman B. Short
- Conflict at Texas Southern
- The successor
- All 7's
- Buffalo hunters and a union
- Darkest day
- The drill instructor
- Hispanics stand tall
- The outsider
- Neighborhood-oriented policing
- Betsy and the poster boy
- The man in the uniform 437
- Hans Marticiuc and greater benefits
- The chief from Phoenix
- An insider and new trust
- Appendix 1: Fallen heroes of HPD
- Appendix 2: Houston mayors and police chiefs, 1837/2012
- Appendix 3: HPOA/HPOU presidents.