Historical Highlights
Historical Highlights

Author: Arthur W. Pease

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1480959960

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Historical Highlights Jersey City Police Department By: Arthur W. Pease This book focuses on the specific history of Jersey City Police Department. Starting with the earliest facts and articles, this book provides a very easy to follow timeline. It presents facts about the department and its members throughout time, such as information about the first minorities and first female officer of the department to stories about how policemen risked their lives in order to save others. This interesting history will shed a new light on how brave and inspiring the police force can be.

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

Author: Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-02-07

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 039334133X

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"A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's Row In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year. Bad nights left him with more than a dozen scars and over a decade in prisons from the Tombs and Sing Sing to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he reunited with another inmate, his father. The child of Irish and Chinese immigrants, Appo grew up in the notorious Five Points and Chinatown neighborhoods. He rose as an exemplar of the "good fellow," a criminal who relied on wile, who followed a code of loyalty even in his world of deception. Here is the underworld of the New York that gave us Edith Wharton, Boss Tweed, Central Park, and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Police in Urban America, 1860-1920
Police in Urban America, 1860-1920

Author: Eric H. Monkkonen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-06-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521531252

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This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.

Leon Abbett's New Jersey
Leon Abbett's New Jersey

Author: Richard A. Hogarty

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780871692436

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Following in the succession of his 25 predecessors, Leon Abbett twice served as governor of New Jersey in the late 19nth century. A lifelong Democrat, he was a dynamic and visionary party leader who guided the citizens of New Jersey into a new urban industrial age. While he was a machine politician and party boss, he was also a notable reformer. That was a formidable combination for his time. Grappling with a series of hot political issues and braving the passions and divisions spawned by the Civil War, Abbett was one of the ablest and most intriguing men ever to be governor. Several new ideas were transformed into public policy during his tenure. Both in style and strategy, Abbett represented a sharp break from his predecessors. He was a prime example of a governor who both in crisis and in ordinary times broadened gubernatorial authority. He became both a policy and party leader. In this context, he was an important forerunner to a type of governor that had not yet appeared on the American political stage.