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Saunders Range

Saunders Range, named for Adjutant General of the Maryland National Guard, John S. Saunders, opened in 1904 on the property now known as Harundale. It was established for the training of army, navy and guard personnel in shooting and marksmanship. Men were assigned by company to spend two or three days at the site gaining proficiency with rifles and revolvers, aiming at targets set 200, 400, 800 and 1000 yards away. The training season ran from May 1 to about mid-August after which the site closed for the winter.

Practice began at 8:15 a.m. and ended at 6:00 p.m. with a one-hour break for lunch. Men lived in tents on the ground with few amenities at first. The year after the range was established, a canteen was added with a “No Intoxicants” policy strictly enforced. Emil E. Vanous and his brother, William, local residents were awarded the contract to run the establishment. In the following years an administration building was erected, and a sewage system was installed in 1910.

The site was ideally located in open country with sandy soil providing good drainage and a plentiful artesian water supply. It was close to the B&A Short Line Railroad which provided transportation and to Furnace Branch Creek which provided recreation for the men. Even at the time, “open country” was a debatable term. Mr. Osborn S. Pumphrey who owned a large farm in Marley, complained vociferously that bullets from the range were striking his house and he could not hire laborers for the fields since they feared being shot. Changes to target siting seems to have remedied the situation.

While the nearby railroad offered easy transportation to both Annapolis and Baltimore, few passes were given to the soldiers for fear of their bringing back “diseases contracted in the city.” Instead, evening entertainments were supplied within the camp. Shows with singing, music and “moving pictures” were offered along with boxing matches between companies. Shooting competitions were also held with medals and cups awarded to the best marksman.

In 1915, as the World War loomed, mobilization of civilians began. Classes of recruits were sent to Saunders Range for an introduction to military regulations, physical drills and shooting practice.

Saunders Range closed in 1926 and the Maryland National Guard put the property up for sale. In 1939, a proposal to build a “Negro housing development” on the site was met by spirited local opposition and soon abandoned. Finally, in 1946, the property was acquired by Byrne Communities, Inc. and in 1947 ads began to appear in local newspapers offering homes for sale in the new development of Harundale.

Information on Saunders Range came to us from Ann Arrundell County Historical Society 

Winchester Model 1897

The Model 1897 was a superior slide-action exposed hammer shotgun that was specifically designed for the new smokeless powder.  Winchester manufactured just shy of one million Model 1897 shotguns, with the production taking place from July 1897 to September 1957.  The Model 1897 was an improved redesign of the older Model 1893.  Serial numbers were a continuation of the Model 1893 and began in the 34150 range, and continued through 1024701 

The Model 1897 was originally offered in solid frame 12 gauge only with a 2 ¾ chamber until April of 1898 when the Take Down was introduced.  The new 16 gauge with a 2 9/16” chamber was introduced in 1899, Take Down only.

The Model 1897 was offered in a variety of grades: standard Field; Fancy; Standard Trap; Special Trap; Pigeon; Tournament; Brush; Riot and Trench Gun.  The 20” barrel Riot and Trench Guns were especially desirable for Military and Law enforcement use. The Law enforcement Riot and Trench Guns may have police or prison unit markings.  The WW II military Riot and Trench guns will have “U.S” and flaming ordnance bomb markings.  Trench guns differed from Riot guns in that they have a ventilated heat shield and a bayonet stud attachment.  All Trench Guns and the military Riot Guns were equipped with sling swivels. The WW I Trench and Riot Guns were made in solid frame only, then for WW II, they were all Take Downs.

Shotguns were first put in radio patrol cars in 1937 the shotgun used at the time was the Winchester 1897. They only had 47 radio cars citywide at the time, training for the shotgun was done at Saunders Range in Glen Burnie. If officers couldn't qualify, they would be sent back to foot patrol and someone else would be given a chance. Training for qualification began on 21 Aug 1937

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Medal of Honor

Police Department
Baltimore, Maryland

A list of "Roll of Honor" / "Medal of Honor" Recipients, compiled from departmental records by our very own departmental historian; Police Officer, Robert "Bobby" Brown
* Indicates that they received the "Citation of Valor" as well
** Indicates under review and looking for more information

If you, or your loved one received the medal, but are not listed, it is nothing personal. We don't have information unless it is sent to us. So send us what you want, To speed things up, send documentation so that we know we are updating our records with accurate information without having to first double check that it was the Medal of Honor they received.

Name - Rank - Date of Incident

Jacob Frey - Marshall - 1888

J. H. Kratz - Ptlm - 1889

G.H. Gordon - Ptlm - 1889

Bernard Ward - Sgt - 1889

John B. Dorsey - Ptlm - 1889

Arthur Napier -  Ptlm  - 1889

Matthew Quinn - Sgt - 1889

Joseph Nevins - Ptlm - 1889

Martin Manger - Ptlm - 1890

Joseph Smith - Ptlm - 1890

William J. Scarborough - Ptlm - 1891

Bernard Finnerty - Ptlm - 1893

Thomas P. O’Donnell - Det - 1897

John H. Gooding - Sgt - 1900/01

Charles H. McClean - RSgt - 1900/01

Francis P. Devon - Sgt - 1904

Henry Streib - Sgt  - Unknown 1907 book

Henry Feldpusch - Ptlm - 1905

Maurice C Erdman - Ptlm - 1914

George C. Sauer  - Ptlm (PH) - 1915

Peter Sawecke - Ptlm - 1916

Joseph E. Waechter - Ptlm - 1924

William Hawkins - Ptlm - 1924

Frank L. Latham - Ptlm (PH) - 1924

Joseph Logue -  Ptlm - 1924

Charles S. Frank - Ptlm (PH) - 1924

Claude E. Long - Ptlm - 1924

Thomas J. Dillon - Clerk  (PH) - 1926

Webster E. Schuman - Ptlm (PH) - 1926

Ignatuis M. Benesch - Sgt - 1926

Henry W. Sudmeier - Ptlm (PH) - 1926

William F. Doehler - Ptlm (PH) - 1927

Joseph F. Carroll -  Det Sgt (PH) - 1928

John P. Burns -  Ptlm (PH)  - 1932

John R. J. Block - Ptlm (PH) -1933

John Blank - Ptlm (PH) - 1934

Max Hirsh  - Ptlm  (PH) - 1935

Arthur H. Malinofski  - Ptlm   (PH)  - 1935

Carroll Hanley - Ptlm (PH)  - 1936

William L. Ryan - Ptlm (PH) - 1940

William J. Woodcock  - Ptlm  (PH) - 1943

William S. Knight - Ptlm (PH) - 1943

John B. Bealefeld - Ptlm  (PH) - 1945

Elmer A. Noon - Ptlm (PH) -1946

Fred R. Unger - Ptlm (PH) - 1947

Joseph D. Benedict - Ptlm (PH) - 1948

Thomas J. Burns - Ptlm  (PH) - 1948

John W. Arnold - Ptlm  (PH) - 1948

Elmer W. Weber - Ptlm - 1951

William H. Kraft Jr.  - Ptlm - 1952

James L. Scholl - Ptlm (PH) - 1953

Mary Eileen Hoy - Crossing Guard - 1953

Cecil Patterson Jr.  - Ptlm - 1953

Wilbert J. Elsroad - Ptlm - 1957

Donald L. Hundermark - Ptlm - 1959

Robert L. Taylor - Sgt - (possibly May 1963) 1964

Richard F. Bosak - Det.   (PH) - 1968

Helen Mackall  -  Crossing Guard  - 1970

Henry M. Mickey  - Ptlm    (PH) - 1970

Donald Sager - Ptlm  (PH) - 1970

Stanley Sierakowski   *- Ptlm - 1970

Siegfried Weber - Ptlm - 1971

Raymond Sylvester -  Ptlm - 1971

Kenneth Hayden - Ptlm - 1971

Richard Mioduszewski - Ptlm - 1971

Edward Malecki - Ptlm - 1972

Paul Lioi - Ptlm - 1972

Albert Greaver - Det - 1972

Carmello Curreri - Det - 1972

Norman F. Buchman - Ptlm  (PH) - 1973

Milton I. Spell - Ptlm - 1974 

Gary W. Dresser * - Ptlm - 1975

Jimmy Holcomb * ** - Ptlm - 1976 

Marcellus Ward -  Det - 1984 

Richard T. Miller * - Ptlm (PH) - 1986

Eugene J. Cassidy * - Off - 1987

Jeffrey Wright * - Lt - 1988

Guy E. Gerstel * -  Off - 1988

William J. Martin * - Off (PH) - 1989

Herman L. Brooks  * - Off - 1989

Ira N. Weiner  * - Off   (PH) - 1992

Terry K. Hendrickson - Off - 1992

Gerard G. DeManss -  Sgt - 1992

Frederick Dillon * - Sgt - 1992

Brian D. Bacon - Off - 1996

Owen E. Sweeney Jr. * - Lt  (PH) - 1997

Barry W. Wood - F.O. -(PH)-  1998

Barry Hamilton - Off - 1999

Louis C. Holley  -  Off  - 2000

Jamie A. Roussey - Off   (PH) - 2000

Kevin M. Gavin * - Off PH) - 2000

John D. Platt  - Sgt  (PH) - 2000

Kevin J. McCarthy - Off  (PH) - 2000

Michael J. Cowdery  * - Off  (PH) - 2001

Ronald A. Beverly  * - Off -  2001

Anthony R. Molesky * - Off - 2001

Ralph J. Ciambruschini - Off - 2002

Sean R. Kapfhammer - Sgt - 2002

William P. Hoover - Off - 2002

Crystal D. Sheffield - Off (PH) - 2002

Thomas G. Newman * - Det (PH) - 2002

Gregg B. Boyd - Off  - 2004

Brian D. Winder - Off (PH)  - 2004

Edwin Lane - Off - 2004

Anthony Byrd - Sgt (PH) - 2006

Troy L. Chesley *  - Det (PH) - 2007

Jared E. Stern - Off - 2007

Christopher Timms - Off - 2007

Robert Himes -  Off - 2008

Daniel Harper  * - Off - 2009

Jerome Shaurette  -  Off - 2009

Curtis McMillion - Off - 2009

Keith Romans - Off - 2010

Todd Strohman - Off - 2010

Latosha Tinsley - Off - 2011

Kevin Amy - Off - 2014

Zachary Wein - Off - 2019

The Call Of Duty

Current style used by the Baltimore Police Department

Baltimore Police Patch Collection

Baltimore City Police Rocker Patch 1952/1967

Baltimore CITY Police patch 1968/1974

Baltimore Police Patch 1975 Present

Baltimore Police Trainee Patch 1965

Baltimore Police Cadet Rocker Patch 1968

The Cadet program was started to help bring better quality police to Baltimore, it gave us a chance to give young men a chance to see if they wanted to be police, but it also gave us a chance to grab them before other agencies did. Another benefit was that it allowed more police to work the streets, while cadets handled some of their work, answering phones, filing or finding reports. The first Cadet hired was Edmund Bossle, he was hired on the day the program was initiated, 17 June 1965, and issued badge number 101. 

Baltimore CITY Police Cadet Patch 1968/74

Baltimore Police Cadet Patch 1975 Present

 

 Baltimore Housing Police 1987 to 2005

Traffic Insignia warn by Traffic Section

As far back as the "Beauty Squad/Traffic Squad" circa 1905 this insignia was worn to represent transportation at a time when horses, wagons etc. were still being used to travel, and at a time when even motor vehicles used a spoke or wood rim. While some of us thought these were limited to the Mounted Police Unit, these were actually used first for those that directed traffic downtown and around the city known as the Beauty Squad. In hindsight, it should have been obvious it was for more than just Mounted, after all Horses don't have wheels LOL. But more than what the officer was using to get around this insignia represents what branch of law enforcement these officers mainly worked and that was transportation, traffic. The insignia was used by Motors, Mounted, Traffic police etc. In 1952 officers sought a different insignia on a fabric patch, of a Wheel inside of a wheel, with Gold Wings, and the words POLICE TRAFFIC an example can be found on this page 21 patches down from the top. 

War Stories

Here is a story which was written in David Simon's book "Homicide A Year on the Killing Streets "In contrast, there is a rare, refreshing moment of civic responsibility displayed by one James M. Baskerville, who flees after shooting his young girlfriend in her Northwest Baltimore home, then calls the crime scene an hour later and asks to talk with the detective.

“Who am I talking to?”

“This is Detective Tomlin.”

“Detective Tomlin?”

“Yeah, who’s this?”

“This is James Baskerville. I’m calling to surrender to you for killing Lucille.”

“Goddammit Constantine, you bald-headed motherfucker, I’m up here trying to do a crime scene and all you can find to do is fuck with me. Either come up here and help or—”

Click. Mark Tomlin listens to a dead phone line for a moment, then turns to a family member. “What did you say was the name of Lucille’s boyfriend?”

“Baskerville. James Baskerville.”

When the second call comes, Tomlin catches it on the first ring. “Mr. Baskerville, listen, I’m really sorry about that. I thought you were someone else … Where are you now?”

Later that night, in the large interrogation room, James Baskerville—who would later agree to life plus twenty years at his arraignment—offers no excuses and readily initials each page of his statement of confession. “I’ve committed a serious crime and I should be punished,” he says.

Mark Lucas Tomlin tells us of the time he and "Mad Dog" were detailed to Vice and were attempting to pick up hookers at the New Motel... They were using Al’s car with the MAD DOG vanity plates. A fine young lass took the duo to her rather opulent room and promptly advised them to drop trowel, saying, “I know if you are cops you are not allowed to take down your pants” Being the dedicated Officers that they were, they immediately “let their pant's hit the floor”. Suddenly the nightingale of the evening pointed to Al as she screamed with laughter. Not wanting to look down at first, Mark's curiosity got the best of him, he had to see what she was laughing at... Looking down he saw that Al was wearing boxer shorts with a "hearts and handcuff" pattern all over them. The three of them broke out laughing until they cried… Our fine officers bid her adieu…. and left her to her business. ROFLMAO We all have our favorite vice story, and this reminds me of the time Delmar Dickson and I were working a plain clothes detail. Our sergeant at the time was Greg Thurston, he loved a good whore arrest, so we figured we'll go out get a hooker, some drugs, and maybe a handgun. We were young full of piss and vinegar and set to rid the world of crime. Within an hour of the shift, we passed this working girl on Calvert Street. She was a real she, and asked if we were dating, Sonny says he is on leave from the military, (he had a high and tight haircut - I always had long hair and a Fu Manchu mustache) so we told her he was on leave, I was a welder and I was brought into town to get him some action. Sonny then extended his hand and introduced us by saying, "I'm John, and this is my Buddy!" she looked at me and said, "What's your name?", I couldn't help but answer, "Buddy". Sonny and I laughed at this quick wit and now had two funny names. Then that hooker reached her arms around my waist and squeezed both butt cheeks as she proceeded to teach me the lessons of her world. She grabbed on, held me real tight, and said, "Have a nice night officer!" She then went on to say, "I like you two, and at first, you had me fooled, so I am going to give you a lesson; only police carry two wallets!" That was the last time I carried two wallets, to this day I still only carry one wallet. And the rest of that night, we were reeling them in like it was a pro bass fishing season. We also made a drug arrest or two.      

All Police should have written a book, it would be stranger than fiction, more passionate than a love story, funnier than the best comedy act, a real tear jerker novel, the stories and the lies that were told, and yes the GOOD times we had as cops.

We are just a bunch of old police sitting around with a couple of “CHILLIES” (cold beer) talking trash, war stories, Police stories, and some true confessions. Tell it all…..Brother....... Get it off your chest, we are all waiting... The afore written was written by Bill Hackley and edited by me, I removed the word COP and replaced it with POLICE

From Robert Yamin
We received information around 1968 or 1969 that there was a guy dealing Drugs on the corner of 32nd and Greenmount across from Sweeney's Nite Club, SE corner. We parked about 100 feet south on Greenmount. We were driving a 1968 Plymouth "Diamond Cab" that was donated to us by the Cab Company. Still painted to look like a Cab it was a great Undercover car. While two of us sat in the Cab drinking Coffee. Officer Tom Gummer who was outstanding in Undercover surveillance, Was sitting on the corner leaning against a building. Tom who hadn't shaved for months, needed a haircut, was dressed like a homeless vagrant, filthy dirty holey khaki pants that he had poured water on in the crotch area and down the leg to appear he had wet himself. Dirty shirt, 40-year-old filthy khaki raincoat. Old shoes with holes in them and different colored holey socks. He had dirt on his face and looked as if he hadn't bathed in years. He had bought a pint of really cheap wine and poured some on himself and he had the rest of the bottle in a brown paper bag. He smelled really bad too. He appeared to be highly intoxicated and in a stupor. We had worked out a hand signal if he observed a Drug deal go down and we were going to make the arrest without blowing his cover. After about 5 minutes of watching him and laughing at him - Cruising Patrol 5 pulls up next to him. They hollered at him to move on but, Tom ignored them and figured they would leave. The two Officers got out stood him up and as he was unable to stand without there help, and was mumbling incoherently and drooling they helped him into the back of the Wagon. Meanwhile, we were in the Cab Laughing hysterically as Tom was not going to break his cover. We followed the CP to the ND and watched as they helped him out of the CP and into the Desk Sgt. area. They hung him on the Brass Bar as he was unable to stand. The Turnkey came out and as the Desk Sgt. asked his name all Tom did was Mumble and Drool. The Sgt. told the Turnkey to put him in a Cell and let him sleep it off. As the Turnkey and one of the Wagon Officers started to drag him back to the Cell Block, I walked over to Tom and lifted his shirt and pulled out a 38 Revolver in an inside the pants holster, and set it on the rail of the Desk Sgt. I then pulled up Toms pant leg and removed a 38 snub nose from a leg holster and set it on the rail. The Desk Sgt., Turnkey, and both wagon Officers were starting to perspire. Tom stood up and recovered his weapons and I advised them he was undercover. As we started to leave the Desk Sgt. asked if I was going to "Write It Up"? I answered with "Write What Up?, We Were Never Here!!!". I think everybody learned a good lesson that night about Searching a Person.

Joke 1

Someone took a polaroid picture of Sgt Horner's desk, then removed all the items from atop the desk and removed the file cabinets that held the desk up... they then put the desktop on the floor and used the polaroid to know where to put all the items so the desk would be as it was before they moved it. When the Sergeant came back in, he was expressionless, but being the Marine he is, that didn't hide that fact that he found little to no humor in the prank

Joke 2
Someone took all of the drawers out of Lieutenant Gonyo's desk and then turned the desk upside down and put the drawers back in. They then turned the desk right side up which meant the drawers and all of the contents was upside down. When he came in and opened his desk drawers the contents fell out to the Floor, and if you know Lieutenant Gonyo, you know he didn't care for jokes.
Joke 3 - (no desk, well unless you consider the desk that held the coffee pot, but we do have a supervisor)
Sgt. Steve Lukasik and Sgt. Craig Meier had Officer John Dodson pick-up three goldfish and the three of them were put into Lt Jimmy Henderson's coffee pot while he was on H-Days. Each shift took turns cleaning the water and feeding the fish until The Lieutenants returned. Sgt Meier was on an H-Day so missed Lieutenant's first day back, and missed the expression on his face. 

Nightstick History/Info/Silliness

When I started out, the older officers often had a short, hard-rubber club they carried in the sap pocket on the leg seam of their uniform trousers. They referred to it as a "day billy", harkening back to a time when the day shift on a police department was a fairly quiet affair. When the sun went down and the crazies came out, however, they parked the day Billy and picked up a "nightstick". Most of us also carried a slap-jack, or "convoy" blackjack tucked in a pocket in case we were inadvertently caught somewhere without a stick. Like in a diner during a meal break, or at turn-key downtown. You were expected to always use an impact tool. If you hurt your hand from punching someone and had to go off on injured status, you were forcing someone else to leave their job to cover your beat. Getting injured legitimately was expected, but getting hurt foolishly was considered to be bad form.

Being an avid law enforcement history buff, I learned over my 38-year career that there often is a lot of tradition, and a lot of really fun stories, attached to the various styles and configurations of nightsticks and billies used by the different agencies across this country. I've managed to collect quite a number of 'signature' sticks from various LE departments while I was on the job. It's hard for me now to pick one of them up, and heft it in my hand, and not recall the first time I stepped out of a cruiser at a disturbance call, my new gunbelt creaking stiffly, and remember the first time anyone ever came up to me and said, "There, Officer...it's that blue house with the chain link fence". In time, I got to visit LE agencies in other parts of the country and was always fascinated by their impact weapons, and the local history attached to them.

Sometimes it involved the type of nightstick issued at an agency. Like the espantoon used by the coppers at Baltimore PD. If you aren't aware of it, the espantoon outwardly looks like a standard old-style nightstick. However, it was modified slightly in shape and the design of its leather thong and held in the opposite way a normal nightstick was held. That is, you conked miscreants with what most of us would identify as the knurled "handle" end of the stick, not the "barrel" end. I've heard a couple of different stories as to why the espantoon is employed that way, and how it came by its name. I'm not sure anyone knows for sure, but it's a neat story.

Contrast that with the lance-like 26-inch "Koga" style nightsticks that gained favor on the west coast in the 1970s, supplanting the older style nightsticks with the leather thong that beat cops had used for years. The trim, unadorned "Koga" stick represented a formalized system of close quarters hand-to-hand control over out-of-control troublemakers. The first real martial arts-based system of stick use that I recall being taught to street cops in this country. Most of us had only been taught a few chokes holds and come-along at the academy, along with hours of striking and short-sticking the heavy bag at the gym. Give a determined road-dog copper a dyna-wood Koga-style nightstick, and a modicum of training, and you couldn't find anyone in the county who could whip him in a fight.

At a lot of police departments, either the agency issued a cheap POS nightstick, or it required each officer to procure his own "knocker". If you poke around in the history of those departments, you'll generally come upon the name of one or two officers who, as a sideline back in the day, turned out high-quality nightsticks and made a few bucks selling them to everyone. The makers didn't charge much for a nightstick because their brother officers couldn't afford much on the skinny salaries they made. These were sticks that had an identifiable style of manufacture that soon became the signature tool of that agency, often nearly as identifiable as the agency's badge or shoulder emblem. The stick makers' names are all but lost in the mists of time now. Names like Tony Barsotti at San Francisco PD, Ernie Porter at Cincinnati PD, or Joe Hlafka at Baltimore. You can spot those sticks by their contours just as sure as if the maker's mark had been burned into the wood.

Frankly, I've always thought the real advantage to working in uniform was that you could nonchalantly carry a real club when you were in public and on a job, and no one gave you a second glance. The old cops told me to "take his wind, or take his wheels" when fighting a high-end resister, and I quickly learned the effectiveness of a short-stick jab to the solar plexus, a full-power smash to the short ribs, or well-centered strike at the back of the thigh or calf muscle. The idea was to debilitate and wear down a resister, bring him back under control and get him cuffed up. "Don't cripple him, if you don't have to", one old timer told me, "Just take the starch out of him and bring him in". Damned if it didn't work as well, or better, than anything invented since.

That's what the nightstick represented then. Carried idly in your hand, twirled at the end of a leather thong, or dangling from a gun belt, it was the visible symbol of the restrained presence that characterizes the American police officer. I know that when I started out some of the old sergeants actually discouraged anyone from wearing a baton ring on your gun belt. They believed that stick should always be in your hand or tucked under your arm as you scribbled in your notebook. I rebelled, being a practical sort, and started wearing a baton ring as soon as I got off probation in the spring of 1972. Then, as now, there was a lot of anarchist sentiment in the country and assaults on LEO's were high. Having my stick in a ring on my belt cut down on the chances of some CHUD getting it and getting himself shot for his efforts.

You remember what a CHUD is, right? A "citizen having urban difficulties"?

In time I tried using nightsticks made of polycarbonate plastics, even briefly tried one made out of aluminum. The only one that felt good in my hands was an 18-inch-long "billy" made by Monadnock that I bought about 30 years ago. It had a slightly oversized grip which fit nicely in my oversized hands and was marketed as the "Tuff Boy" model. It sure lived up to its name. It didn't warp out of shape if you left it locked in the car during the summer, was fast-handling and darn near stout enough to hammer fence posts into the ground. But, being a short "billy", it was never as versatile as the 24 or 26-inch hardwood nightsticks were.

Anyway, I enjoy collecting sticks and stories. If you have one, I'd sure like to hear about it. Any "El Kabong" or "Wood Shampoo" stories you have will not be reported... in fact no names will be attached, I will assume some literary freedom was taken, creative writing entered, and in the interests of keeping it fun, would never drop a dime, but I will raise a scorecard 5 thru 10 is how we'll grade them.

Cagney & Lacey

Here's a funny story. Northern District Operations Partner's Brenda May and Wanda Dobbins. We were known by the "area's usual suspects" as "Cagney & Lacey". They were on a detail for burglaries when a call came out for a 10-31 Burglary on Reservoir Lane near Cold Spring Lane. The call came complete with suspect and clothing description. Cagney and Lacey rounded the corner and sure enough, they see a gentleman running away on Cold Spring matching the broadcasted description down the shoestrings. So Lacey bails out and gives chase, she was known for her extremely fast running, and for ALWAYS catching her suspect, so she out on foot, Cagney is their wheel-man.. or wheel-woman...  one on heels the other on wheels, and the chase is on... Cagney re-broadcasting description & giving a direction of travel. She sees the suspect [30-1] running toward one of the underground tunnels along the park at Underwood Rd with my Lacey close behind on his heels.

Knowing there is no room to turn around in those tunnels Cagney drives to the other side of the tunnel, to head him off at the pass... Just as she arrived at the other side of the tunnel ready to wait patiently for 30-1 to come out, she hears him crying out for her help, he comes out of the tunnel with his hands up, crying, "Take me, Cagney, I give up... Take me before Lacey puts a "Mama whippin on me"!! After he was handcuffed & in the car they all had a good laugh. And all these years later, Cagney still can't get the picture of her partner running all balled up like a duck in that small tunnel yelling at 30-1, and somehow he was convinced she would put a "Mama whippin!!" on him... Oh and just to be clear.. he was identified as the suspect wanted for the burglary that was called in. Funny thing with police and war stories. Whenever we hear one, we can instantly think of a similar story. This is no different, we were conducting a field interview, when the guy we were talking to gave a name and address, but couldn't spell his own last name, and his date of birth would have made him about 5 years younger than the age he gave... He was asked if he had anything on him and if we could check, at which time he said yes, and as he turned he broke and ran, we gave chase, and over time we turned a corner he was there not far in front of us, so when we turned a corner and he was gone we knew the chase was oven, and all it would take now, was to find his hiding spot.. which by the way was normally close to the corner where we first lost eyesight of him.. with this I knew he was behind one of two small brick walls in that area. So I went to the wall from a different angle and saw him hiding, I went back around, and announced to others that we lost him, this drew their attention to me and gave me the opportunity to point to the wall and bush he was hiding in. Then when I got closer, I gun faced him and told him to get down on the ground, while keeping his hands out in plain view... He started yelling Mom... Mommy... Mom... Mommy!: over and over... until he was in cuffed... So when all was said and done, and we were down the station, I asked him why did he call for his mommy (the guy was in his mid to late '30s) he said if you call for help, no one will listen, but if you call for mom, or mommy at least half the people will look to see what is going on.  

Free Movie Tickets

I saw this Pic of the Senator Theater on a friend’s Facebook page and it reminded me of an incident, in 1968.

Commissioner Pomerleau made a point of advising the Department he would not tolerate anyone taking any gifts or favors. It would be cause for termination. One night an officer called the manager of the Senator to ask if he could "Badge" his way in with a date to watch the 10:00 PM showing of Bullitt (1968) Steve McQueen is a San Francisco cop assigned to guard a star witness. The officer temporarily working that Post in the Northern District, on a Day shift. Had been told by the manager to call anytime he wanted to get in, the two had become friends as the officer stopped by daily just to say Hi and make sure things were ok.

So that night the officer picks up his date and heads over to the theater. He arrived about 15 minutes before the 8:00 PM show ended, and we walked into the lobby. There was a line around the block of people waiting to buy tickets for the 10:00 PM show.

As the officer entered the Lobby he and his date were greeted by the Manager who advised him that not 10 minutes after the officer called, the Commissioner called and asked if he could get in to watch the 10:00 PM show with his wife. He was standing in the Lobby with his wife. He had arrived a few minutes before the officer. Seems he "BADGED" his way in same as he had ordered the rest of the Department not to do.

The Officer walked by him and said "Good Evening Commissioner". He said "Good Evening". He knew the officer had done the exact same thing he did to get into the show.

What a Lying Dishonest Piece of Shit He Was.

Robert Yamin
Around 1969 I wrote two Search and Seizure Warrants for two Fraternity Houses that sat side by side on Benninghouse Rd near York Road for Drug Parties. Expected a large number of people in the two houses. The Area Two Squad (consisted of 10 Officers from WD, ND, and NWD). We worked Plain Clothes and Undercover. We were sometimes called "The Odd Squad" (I wonder why?). I asked Major Miller for additional Officers for the "Raid". He assigned 10 Officers an a Sergeant from each of the 3 Districts in his Area. We all met at the Western. Not wanting to let the occupants of the two houses be alerted by a large number of Officers arriving in numerous cars. I borrowed a 26 Ft Cargo Truck from Eagle Truck Rental. after loading about 33 Uniforms and 9 Plain Clothes in the Back I drove to the Location. I could hear "Moo's" coming from the back of the truck. When I arrived I opened the Cargo Door and Released the "Hounds". We hit them before they realized what was going on. 48 arrests were made. When I requested 7 Cruising Patrols I had to repeat the request 3 times to the Dispatcher who apparently thought I was pulling his leg. The Turnkey and Desk Sergeant at the Northern both almost suffered Heart Attacks as the Wagons arrived realizing the work they had awaiting them.

Youth rally in '69 suddenly turned into a nightmare of violence MEMORIAL STADIUM: AN UNUSUAL DAY

It was anything but decent.They held a big rally at Memorial Stadium in the spring of 1969, a rally for local youth to come together and show that not all of America's children were drug-crazed hippies intent on dismantling the establishment of the United States. Said one participant: "It was supposed to show that everything wasn't going to hell in a hand-basket." This gig was trouble from the word go. Memorial Stadium has often been used for non-sporting events, and an assortment of oddities have taken place there since 1954 when the ballpark's current configuration was essentially completed. In 1981, Christian evangelist Billy Graham held a ballpark crusade to save souls; fireworks launched from the outfield regularly exploded across the Waverly skyline during Independence Day celebrations; the city held a pep rally for public school teachers there before the 1989-90 school year; and thousands of people show up at the ballpark every winter to buy Christmas trees from Lions' Club volunteers working for the Eye Bank of Maryland. From 1940 until 1976, George Bull and the Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20 sponsored the "March of Champions" drum '' and bugle corps competition that brought marching bands and majorettes to the stadium from up and down the East Coast. Easter Sunday sunrise services have been celebrated at the stadium and, although not in the current structure, the 33rd Street site has been host to rodeos, boxing matches, open-air town meetings, "I Am An American Day" parades and auto races. But nothing -- not even the big lightning storm that forced rock star Eric Clapton to cancel a stadium concert during the Bicentennial summer of 1976 -- rocked the big pile of bricks on 33rd Street like the decency rally. "I don't know what started the trouble," said a local reporter sent to cover it. "But it was quick and ugly." Although it was promoted in every high school throughout the metro area, very few kids knew exactly what it was they were attending. Many youngsters arrived on the rampant rumor that James Brown and his Famous Flames were going to give a free concert. Others believed it would be an arena to protest the war in Vietnam or a forum to push for the right of 18-year-olds to vote. And thousands of naive youngsters from churches and community centers in the suburbs arrived on buses for an afternoon of wholesome music and good clean fun. Altogether, more than 40,000 people showed up at the stadium on April 20 to attend the "Maryland Youth Rally for Decency." By the time police shut the rally down not long after it started, rioting and mugging left 138 people hurt, 142 arrested and seven stabbed. Seven police officers were injured, including one whose kneecap was crushed when someone threw a trash can down a ramp. One girl was nearly raped in the upper deck, 40 transit buses were damaged, seats were torn from the stands and thrown onto the field, a blind kid was punched in the face and robbed of his bus fare, and police got a call for a bomb at the stadium in the middle of everything. "This was supposed to reunite everybody, to get the teenagers together and make everybody happy," said Baltimore police officer Joseph H. Longo, assigned to a traffic detail at the ballpark that day. "It didn't work." Looking for a quick yardstick to measure the difference between Baltimore today and Baltimore 22 years ago? In all the violence and confusion at Memorial Stadium's Decency Rally, no one fired a gun. The rally was patterned after a similar festival that attracted 30,000 young people in Miami several months earlier, an event staged in response to singer Jim Morrison's arrest for exposing himself at a Doors concert in Florida. Others were expected across the nation. Said Baltimore comptroller Hyman A. Pressman, the key adult organizer of the event: "This [will] give youth an opportunity to show that the majority have a love for decency and the respect for morality which is the badge of proper upbringing in their homes." Pressman, in failing health and unavailable for comment for this article, seized on the event, icing it with the kind of buildup he lathered on the March of Dimes Walk-a-Thon for years. He predicted that Baltimore could stage a rally for decency bigger and better than any town in the nation. He was assisted by state Senator Larry Young (D-Baltimore), who was chairman of the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council in 1969. "We got together to counter all the negatives being espoused about young people back then," said Young. "Hyman Pressman was our adult liaison." With his penchant for corn pone and publicity, Pressman immersed himself in the project, calling the shots so far as to exclude the local White Panther anti-war group from a pre-rally parade by saying the decency event was "not for the likes of them." David Franks, a Baltimore writer, was a young teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the spring of 1969 as well as the "Minister of Sound" for the White Panthers. Franks -- convinced that the series of decency rallies were "a vehicle of the Nixon Administration to polarize the youth of America" -- had submitted for approval the text of a hip patriotic speech he wanted to give at the rally. Young organizers of the event voted to allow Franks to address the stadium crowd, but he never made it to the microphone."I was down in the dugout runway waiting for my turn to speak, and when I walked on the field surrounded by a group of Black Panthers, there was a column of 50 police barring me," he remembered. "All I was doing was trying to exercise my right to free speech, trying to point out that there was another version of patriotism and that was to resist the war. I was carrying the flag as we entered the field. The cops broke through the Black Panthers to arrest us and I wasn't going to let Old Glory touch the ground. It was the end of my innocence." And also the end of the decency rally. While the anti-war group was being arrested on the field -- "I remember being asked by a cop: 'Do you want to go to the hospital or to jail?' " said poet Joe Cardarelli -- total hell erupted in the stands. The issue wasn't political. "The blacks were beating up the whites," said the late Major William A. "Box" Harris, a black police lieutenant and the head of the department's community relations at the time. Michael Golden, now the spokesman for the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, was on the wrong end of Lieutenant Harris' assessment. Golden was 14 at the time and took a bus to the stadium with a church group from Glen Burnie. From the moment he walked into the stadium, he said: "It just seemed to be mayhem. There was no sense of agenda or order, just a cacophony of people running around and screaming." Golden and his friends found some seats in the right-field bleachers and made the mistake of going inside the lower concourse to get something to eat. "We were in line at a stand when this kid about half my size came up to me and stuck his hands in the front pockets of my jeans, and instinctively I just pulled his hands out. He said he was going to fight me and the next thing I knew someone hit me behind my knees and when I dropped to the floor they kicked me in the face and the head and chest and stomach and groin and I was scared. Really scared," Golden said. "My friends were just standing there in shock, and thank God this girl came up and started telling these guys what animals they were and when they got into an argument with her I ran out of the stadium The stuff those kids witnessed, Officer Joe Longo and the police department's entire night shift -- more than 500 cops dispatched en mass to 33rd Street in riot gear with shotguns -- tried to control. "It was one hectic, terrible day like a bomb exploded and it had racial tones," he said, remembering a trio of young men inside the stadium dressed in African garb and carrying spears. "Fights broke out simultaneously all over the stadium, all at once." As the crowd dispersed through Waverly, violence and robberies continued along 33rd Street, Greenmount Avenue, and side streets in between. The next day, Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro III explained it like this: "There was a hoodlum element of 500 to 1,000 youths that don't represent any segment of the community or any cause. This is a group that is out to disrupt society as we know it." In the end, the thugs accomplished what the anti-war hippies could not. "I took some solace," said David Franks, "that it ended the decency rallies in this country."

Officer Gary Dresser worked 713 car in the Western District he was good Police. Here's a quick and funny story about him, every morning while on day shift Gary would sit in the roll call room, with a large cup of coffee and read the newspaper from cover to cover. Officer Tom Gummer, (who had false teeth) asked Gary if he could have a sip of his coffee. Dresser didn't care, so told him to go ahead, Gummer then dropped his uppers into Gary's coffee cup on purpose as he took his sip. The entire shift, who were in the room knew what Gummer had done and waited for Gary to take the last long drink of his coffee. When he did Gummer's teeth hit Gary's lips, and of course, when Garry looked to see what it was, there were Gummer's, pearly whites grinning at him from within his cup.. and as he looked up he saw Gummer's toothless smile laughing at him from across the room.

Now that is Warped Police humor.

There was a time, not too long ago that we used typewriters in the BPD, a Lieutenant working with a broken typewriter was forced to take the following actions

He wrote -  I had a typewriter at ND that the letter "F" had broken off. I tried for weeks to get it repaired. I finally typed a lengthy 95, substituting "PH" for the broken "F", and ended with the sentence "Get the Phucking thing Phixed!"

(Taken from a "Thread" on the bpd message board)

When you came on, you had to buy your own shirts. No short sleeves allowed.
You had a long double breasted wool winter coat that had a little leather holster built into the pocket.
You were issued that little Colt .38 that fit in that pocket.
Your first time driving a radio car (after walking for a couple of years) was a Studebaker Lark...three on the tree, no air, no power steering.
You took a part 1 crime report and put it in your hat. If no one asked for it in a week or so, you threw it away...no report, no crime!
You could only write reports with a departmental pen with "special ink"
Your call time was 6 after the hour and on your first day walking a beat you made your call only to find a bottle of Four Roses whiskey in the call box.
You changed shifts and didn't have the same sergeant because they rotated on a different schedule than the patrolman.
Your boss was a captain, his boss was an inspector and his boss was a chief inspector.
Your badge was stamped steel and just said "POLICE"
Your siren was you holding your head out the window and yelling siren noises.
You walked up to Frederick Ave. and took the number 8 streetcar out to your foot post.
You had to tip the station house clerk $5 to get a day off.
A guy in your squad got fired on the spot for cheating on his wife or not paying his bills.
Your sergeant was a marine veteran of the Chosen Reservoir in the Korean War and you were scared to death of him.
Someone even laid a hand on a police officer, he paid the price in spades
Guys in your squad backed you up on almost every call
You were proud to be on the BPD and people respected you
You rode a police motorcycle with no electric start, spark advance and a foot clutch and side shifter that would launch you over the handlebars or break your leg, or you didn't start it correctly.
There were detectives in something called the VIP Squad
You typed all your 95's on an old manual typewriter
You actually tried up your post on the midnight by shaking each and every door and your sergeant made sure you did it
You trembled in fear before the captain when there was a commercial burglary on your post last night
You went to the range and "enhanced" your score with a number 2 pencil. You were thankful that you had a career that you could retire from at age 55 AND
25 years of service+ You were jealous of the "2 %" who had a better pension plan
You went to Virginia Donuts on Ensor St. and picked up some day-olds, met your squad in the park and drank coffee, ate donuts and read Snuffy Smith and Flash Gordon in the Baltimore New Post with everything spread out on the hood of your radio car
Your old timer side partners had been to places called Tarawa or Iwo Jima or the Buldge
You could catch forty winks on the midnight shift in "the hole" and while you were doing it your side partners snuck up on you and let the air out of your tires or stole your badge.
You had to wear your hat at all times, in or out of the car
You turned in your little Colt revolver and got a brand new Smith and Wesson but they still made you carry those little soft lead bullets
The first thing you did after graduating from the police academy, is to have gone down to American Sporting Goods on Baltimore Street and buy an off-duty snub nose for $42 including a holster.
You went to Sweeney's, Judges, Hollywood Park or the Green Dolphin to meet girls
You ate most of your meals at Nate's and Leon's
You made prisoner meal runs to the Busy Bee or the Maryland House
You went to court on your day off and didn't get paid
You went to court later in your career and got $4 for traffic court and $6 for downtown court
You went to traffic court at night at the old CD and the magistrate was drunker than the guy you locked up for drunk driving
The courtroom was in the station house and when you worked midnight, you always made an arrest so you could get paid for an "overnighter".
You locked up that guy for drunk driving and he had to blow a .15 on that old time breathalyzer
The desk sergeant was a God and had a bail sheet on the wall listing the amounts for each crime and "commissioner' was your BIG boss, not someone who worked for the court
You ever left your call box key with all your house and car keys in the call box
You went to a local bar after 4X12 shift and got home in time to take the kids to school
You were handed a pile of warrants to serve on your post...all for unpaid parking tickets
You were issued your very first walkie-talkie and accidentally dropped it in the toilet
Helicopters were something that the army had
Your radio car had a "On Foot Patrol" light on the top and a "STOP" fender light facing backward on the right fender
Your side partner came over from something called the Baltimore City Park Police
As a rookie, you heard eye-popping stories about "the Avenue" or "Brookfield and Whitelock" or "the Block".
You would hear Tac guys talk about something called "the down under" or SD guys meeting at "6 1/2" or some strange number like that.
You would fill out a car stop sheet from a motor officer's ticket book.
You were having a really good day until you were told to go to Howard Uniform to get measured.
You went over to Erdman Leather and saw Miss Mary (all 400 lbs. of her) get a new handcuff case.
You ate a "death" ball" at Cimino's on Gay St. and felt sick for three days.
You ate a "big bag" at the Little Tavern and felt great.
You ate a "floating" hamburger from Harley's Sub Shops that had been floating in grease for a day or two then stunk up your two man car
Your tie had grease on it from all the above-mentioned food joints plus the Double T diner in Baltimore County.
You were expected to solve all the problems in your neighborhood because you were "a cop".
You dreaded working a school corner because the crossing guard was sick again.
You were assigned a "snow corner" and you were supposed to keep traffic moving while you froze to death in that cloth reefer.
Your parents were very proud of you for being a cop, but your mom worried herself sick over it but never let you know it.
You cried your eyes out when a fellow officer was killed but did it in private where no one, not even your wife would see you.
You have lived long enough to remember all these things plus all the wonderful times you had with some of the most unique, strange, funny, weird and fantastic people on earth. _________________ "Life is tough....it's even tougher if you're stupid." John Wayne

I remember having a couple placing their hands on a cold badge asking to be divorced. The badge was cold as you said you walked a foot post for a couple of years. Some Sgt's would set up tell tales just to make sure you "tried" up a business location. God forbid if someone got in on you on the Midnight shift. Some were all rumored now to have carried a snub nose 5 shot off-duty revolver in the old reefer jacket pockets. Not that I or anyone else I know of ever did that. Some Sgt's would have you place your written reports in a call box. He would pick them up @ his leisure. My first Sgt said to call for unit---. Don't call me for anything unless you have a Homicide or you are involved in the Police involved shooting! And yes unlike today where standards have been lowered. You had better have A Credit rating. None of this as I have seen guys have their personal cars towed off the station house lot for being reposed. Johnny Wilbanks the walking man's friend. Located on Harford Rd & Southern Avenue. He would give cops a fair price on a nice looking used car. But God helps you if you ever missed one payment. He would repo it in a flash. Then you paid him a towing/storage fee to get it back. He had a very nice all Stone house on Old Harford Road just inside the County. I understand from a family relative he not only lost his car sales business but lost his house as well. The merry go syndrome. What goes around comes around!

I remember when the police cars were black and white and fire engines were red and open cabs - ambulances were meat wagons with the driver and "attendant" have no training other than basic first aid. I remember calls boxes and also fire alarm boxes - not only do I remember seeing foot patrol on Greenmount Avenue and the firefighters brought their wooden chairs and sat outside - got a call - they left the doors open -yeah I'm old but it's OK - Oh and I also remember when they went with the baby blue police cars and fluorescent pink/orange fire engines.

MIKE ANDREW

I don't know too much about all the young" whipper-snappers" you people are talking about except Mike Andrew. Mike has most likely forgotten more about Policing then most of the people at Headquarters will ever know! I worked for Mikes father Sgt Pop-Pop Andrew on Pennsylvania Ave (old number two bailiwick) for many years and he was one of the old hard nose cops. He later made Lt and ran the Vice Squad downtown. To be sure a lot of knowledge was passed on from father to son that helped Mike survive all the flack that was to come later. Damn I; am getting OLD

8charlie14
I can remember when I came on we didn't have 911 yet. If a phone call was made to the BPD it was 222-3333 if I remember correctly. We also still had call boxes which were great. You could put your raincoat in the call box if you were walking a foot post and expecting rain during your shift. We had traffic court at 211 E. Madison Street and if you were working the midnight shift it was not uncommon to get an 11 AM or 2 PM summons. All in all, it was fun times for me as a rookie, and I learned a lot from the guys who had time on, they taught you the proper way to do things. You really didn't want to bother your Sgt unless it was important. I also forgot to add we were measured for summer and winter pants by Howard Uniform and were issued the "Refer Coats" the first few years I was on. There are a number of fine folks on this board who came on the job before I did, but I was lucky enough to experience some of the old school ways of the job. It was very helpful to me during my career.

No Prisoners you mentioned the Park Police. What a gravy do-nothing gig. They drove as I recall green & white Plymouth's. Then it all ended when they were merged into the Baltimore City Police Department. Those guys were not happy campers about that. One, in particular, lived in the Belair Edison area. When it was a safe & very nice area to live in. After the merge, he was assigned to the Eastern District, and retired from there. I run into him once every once in a while. now a very old man. Who still plays golf a couple of times a week. I remember Gus @ the old dog house. A lot of Motor men would go there. Gus gave a little bit of a price break. Not the cleanest place though to eat. Vaguely recall Nate & Leons. But you certainly got backed by most Sergeants & so forth. Unlike today they see how many they can burn.

FAIRY TAIL vs. POLICE WAR STORY

Lt. Tim O'Connell and I had heard of a story from some of the older police who believed in tradition and the passing down of a story and ritual from the past. It concerned one of the three "police commissioners" from the late 1860s and 1870s. The department had three police commissioners commanding it at this time. One was Harry Gilmor. Harry Gilmor fought under John Singleton Mosby as an "irregular" in the Civil War.

Harry, because he knew the Maryland area, participated in numerous destructive raids for the Confederacy in and around Baltimore. After the war, Harry became a police commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department. When he died in 1872, he was buried on Confederate Hill with other confederates, in SW Baltimore. Though Harry was a confederate, he chose, in his last will and testament, to be buried in his Baltimore Police uniform. But, because of his confederate past, the state would not allow his body to be buried in Maryland soil with the Maryland seal.

It is still found on our uniform buttons to this day. His buttons were ordered to be cut off of his uniform by the state. The story and legend handed down to police through the years were that if you were on a promotional list and really wanted to be promoted, you went to Harry Gilmor's grave and placed a brass BPD uniform button on his grave. I have heard of some officers who pursued this course and were, in fact, promoted. In late 1998, Tim O'Connell and I wanted to see if the legend was still true. There was a Sergeant; we'll call Sergeant P, who was on a promotional list for Lieutenant and the list was soon to run out. The sergeant had an open IID number and he himself thought he would never make it and was very sad. So, Tim and I took Sergeant P to Confederate Hill to place the button. It was raining. I instructed Sergeant P to place the uniform button on a ledge on Harry's grave. He did. I then told him to get on his knees in the mud and "ask for Harry's help in being promoted". He did.

Within a week the IID number was cleared and he was promoted to Lieutenant. Harry still has the power.

Ret. Lt Jerry DeManss BPD

Reasons to Carry a Gun Today

My old grandpa said to me son, 'there comes a time in every mans life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he becomes too old to take an ass-whoopin'. I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed. I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place. I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world. I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world. I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government. I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy. I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love. I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate. I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me. Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess. Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass-whoopin'. 'Be who you are and say what you feel...Because those that matter...don't mind...And those that mind... don't matter

Actual stories furnish by some of Baltimore’s Finest.

 Polygraph

 The Introduction of the Polygraph to Baltimore's Police Department
and the History of the Polygraph in this Country  

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 It was a long time after the Polygraph that two new techniques came along,
Voice Stress Analysis and Statement Analysis 

LIE DETECTOR IS UNVEILED

In researching the department, we like to find initiation dates, when the Motors Unit, K9, Aviation, Marine or other units got their official start, and sometimes why? Often in getting the initiation date, we'll get a year, sometimes a year and month; we thrive for a full date; Day, Month, Year. So while researching Commissioner Hepbron, we came across an article with the headline, "LIE DETECTOR IS UNVEILED," and of course, it led us to believe we would learn when our polygraph unit was initiated. The information we had right off the bat, was that it came from Page 10 of the Baltimore Sun, 29 November 1955. The opening line was, "City's first lie detector machine was unveiled yesterday by Police Commissioner James M. Hepbron, for use in the department's expanded program of Scientific Crime Detection. "Which tells us the unit would have made its debut on Monday, 28 November 1955. The Article went on to provide us with still more clues when in the last sentence, of the first paragraph read, "A special examining room is under preparation by the rackets division to house the "Lie Box" in the enforcement section on the sixth-floor of the police headquarters building. "Use of various words can be applied like clues at a crime scene. In this case, the author, a witness to the actual 1955 piece of polygraph equipment, a newspaper man, a person whose profession it was that trained him to use words much the way an artist would use a paintbrush. Painting a picture for his reading audience, after viewing the machine searched his database for words to describe best, what it was that he just witnessed. He used the words, "Lie Box "as opposed to, "Lie Case," this let us know the unit was made from a box and not a case. This is telling because there were a few portable polygraph units on the market in 1955.The Keeler 302, housed in a "factory modified, Kennedy Toolbox," and the Stoelting, which was built in more of an aluminum briefcase looking carrying case. The fact that it was referred to as a "Box" and not a "Case" was the first indication that we were most likely dealing with a Keeler, portable polygraph, and not the Stoelting. As with any investigation, however, you follow the clues, so we continued looking at his words. Let's look at t he weight. The newspaper article described the unit as having a weight of approximately 46 lbs. The Stoelting had manufacture's reported weight of 25 pounds. What increased the weight in these units aside from size, and product components were batteries. The Keeler held six batteries and was listed as having weighed approx 46 lbs. The unit we purchased was lacking the batteries and still came to us with a net shipping weight of 42 pounds, gross weight of 48 pounds. We needed one of these early "Antique" polygraph units for display in t he police museum, but before making a purchase, we went looking to acquire either a Keeler Model 302 or a Stoelting #22055. Obviously, we wanted what was most likely used by the Baltimore Police Department on that Monday, morning in 1955. So using the words as evidence, we did the next thing one would do in an investigation. We spoke to polygraph experts and historians as witnesses. Based on the phrases we had pointed out as having been utilized in the article, the weights described, and the fact that not one of the collectors/experts disagreed with our theories and findings. We believe we were able to purchase t he proper machine to most authentically represent an accurate display of the first polygraph machine used by the Baltimore Police. We believe that by our use of following the clues. The words used the weights described, talking to experts from the polygraph museum, collectors, and polygraph historians. We have gotten to the truth about this lie machine. And that the machine we have on display, best represents the unit witnessed by reporters on that day and used by the Baltimore Police Department in 1955.So let's talk about the instrument, a Model #302 Keeler polygraph, a unit that was introduced in 1952.At the time they added the "third channel," called a"psychogalvanometer.11 This machine was manufactured by 'Associated Research' of Chicago, Illinois and utilized six batteries, along with an AC power source. It was built within a steel case. The box had a brown wrinkle finish paint scheme with slip hinges affixed to the lid allowing for easy removal during examinations. Keeler had his cases custom built by the Kennedy Tool Box company, using their signature paint scheme of that brown crackle finish described earlier. The machine has a chart drive unit that will run at speeds of either six or twelve inches per minute; it is powered by a synchronous motor. There are three recording styluses, to record pulse, blood pressure, respiration .In closing, we would like to point out one final line if that newspaper article that drew us to bringing this machine to the museum. It was the last subtitle to one of the final paragraphs, and it read, "The Only One in the State." in that subsection, it reassured much of what was already said but concluded with the following line. "The lie detector, is the only one in the state, it will be made available to other police departments," said Lieut. Grunder head of the polygraph unit. He closed with information about portability, and, he concluded confirming the weight as being approximately 46 pounds. Lieut. Grunder was a former instructor at the Police Academy; he was assigned to the rackets division and trained five or six assistance to operate the polygraph. He was a lawyer, a graduate of the National Police Academy as well as his having served the Baltimore Police Officer. He was enthusiastic about the possibilities of the polygraph saying, "It's practically foolproof," and, "Even if someone attempts to alter the results by moving, coughing or yawning, we can detect their deception, he said.

Policy 1601
Subject POLYGRAPH PROCEDURES
Date Published 4 August 2016
By Order of the Police Commissioner POLICY
1. Thorough Investigations. It is the policy of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) to ensure that all criminal incidents are thoroughly investigated in a professional manner.
2. Victim’s Well-being. The BPD investigates all reported rapes and other sexual offences. Those comprehensive investigations by a sworn police officer shall display the utmost regard for the victim’s physical and emotional well-being. Members shall be trained to interact with the victim with a trauma informed approach. The BPD complies with the policy of the State of Maryland regarding the investigation of rape and sexual offense, as stated by the Governor’s Office on Crime Control and Prevention on July 21, 2009 to wit:
2.1. No law enforcement officer, prosecutor or other government official shall ask or require the victim of an alleged sexual offense to submit to a polygraph examination or other truth verification device as a condition for proceeding with the investigation of that offense;
2.2. The refusal of a victim to submit to a polygraph or other truth verification test shall not prevent an investigation from going forward.

GENERAL
1. A polygraph examination is available in support of the following:
1.1. Internal Investigations.
1.2. Pre-employment screening and testing.
1.3. Voluntary examination by members of the BPD, sought as a means of exculpation.
2. Mass testing of possible suspects to produce a real suspect shall not be done.
3. Polygraph examination results shall be made available to members of the BPD on a need to know basis only and shall not be disseminated outside the BPD without authorization by the Police Commissioner.
EXCEPTION: Results of polygraph examinations may be made available to Assistant State's Attorneys assigned to criminal investigations, conducted by members of the BPD.
4. Results of pre-employment polygraph examinations may be provided to other law enforcement agencies, with the applicant's authorization. Policy

MEMBER 
1. Request polygraph examinations of the suspect(s) when investigation reveals there is reasonable cause to believe that the suspect(s) had motive, opportunity, and means to commit an offense and additional information is needed to further the investigation.
2. Request polygraph examinations of witnesses, complainants, and informants when:
2.1. You have cause to believe the individuals are withholding information vital to the successful resolution of the investigation.
2.2. The individual's motives, allegations and/or reliability are in question.
3. Make tentative arrangements for a polygraph examination with the Polygraph Examiner either by telephone or personal contact. The normal hours of the Polygraph Unit are 0800 to 1630, Monday through Friday.
4. Schedule an examination for Saturday or Sunday, by prior appointment, when a prospective examinee is unavailable Monday through Friday, when all provisions of this order have been met.
5. The Polygraph Unit will conduct a case review to determine if the polygraph examination will be a valuable resource.
6. Immediately notify the Polygraph Examiner, and reschedule or cancel the examination when:
6.1 Member cannot locate a person scheduled for examination.
6.2. The subject is ill.
6.2.1. Advise and check documentation for any medical condition that may cause a health risk during the course of the examination.
6.3. The subject declines to submit to the examination.
7. Ensure that a parent or guardian is present during the examination of a juvenile; or
8. Obtain permission for the examination and a signed "Form of Consent", Form LD 301, from the parent, guardian or Juvenile Judge with jurisdiction.
9. Brief the examiner on details of the investigation.
10. Provide the examiner with:
10.1. A copy of the offense report.
10.2. Sufficient established facts to enable the examiner to construct relevant test questions.
10.3. Any specific questions relevant to the investigation that you want the examinee Policy 1601 POLYGRAPH PROCEDURES to answer.
10.4. Unpublicized facts of the offense, particularly those expected to be known only to the individual(s) involved.
10.5. Verified detailed facts, because general facts, theories, and suspicions are not enough.
10.6. Any written or recorded statements made by victims.
11. Be present during the examination in order to assist the examiner should a matter arise with which the examiner is not familiar.
12. Witness the reading and explanation of the subject's rights and privileges, and confirm the voluntary nature of the subject's signature on the "Explanation and Waiver of Rights," Form 069/05 and the "Form of Consent,” Form LD 301.
13. Obtain and make available all pertinent information, relative to the examination, when the examinee has been examined on the same case by any other examiner, such as, report techniques used, charts, and/or list of questions, so the examiner may review it and determine if a re-examination is warranted.
14. Reduce the subject's verbal statement to writing, if you are advised by the examiner that the examinee has made an incriminating statement that is critical to the investigation.

POLYGRAPH EXAMINER 
1. Properly conduct polygraph examinations, following the Standing Operating Procedures of the Polygraph Unit. NOTE: The Polygraph Examiner has the authority to decide at any time whether or not an examination should be conducted, and once started, whether it should be continued.
2. Prior to examining an applicant for employment, review the current pre-employment investigative files of the applicant.
3. Prior to examining a member of the BPD for a possible transfer to a sensitive assignment, review their personnel file for the purpose of obtaining necessary background information relative to their service with the BPD.
4. Immediately notify the investigator, if during the examination, the examinee makes an incriminating statement that you consider critical to the investigation.

PERSONNEL SECTION
1. Make available to the Polygraph Unit, a member's personnel file, when a polygraph examination is required for possible transfer.

Policy 1601 POLYGRAPH PROCEDURES RESCISSION Remove and destroy/recycle General Order P-1, Polygraph Procedures, dated 10 May 2010. COMMUNICATION OF POLICY This Policy is effective on the date listed herein. Each employee is responsible for complying with the contents of this policy.

The History of the Polygraph Machine

In 1902 an inadequate lie detector test was invented by a man named James McKenzie. Later on in the 18th century, 1921, a medical student named

John Larson from the University of California invented the modern polygraph instrument, which was much more accurate in its results than the previous machine.  Although it recorded several different physiological responses, it was not as advanced as the modern polygraph instrument; it measured the subjects pulse rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate and recorded the information on a rotating drum of smoke paper.  In 1925 Leonard Keeler refined the instrument invented by John Larson; instead of using smoke paper to record changes in the suspects’ reactions, he incorporated ink pens in order to ensure the efficiency of the machine.  In 1938 the machine was further improved by Keeler.  He added another measuring component, galvanic skin resistance.  The polygraph machine continued to advance throughout the years; a man named John Reid introduced the idea of using ‘control questions’ as a means of comparison.  After many years of experimenting with ways to improve the machine, the machine was finally computerized in 1992, this allowed the machine to record the results of the test more efficiently

Leonard Keeler

Leonard Keeler, above all others involved in the history of modern polygraph; can be considered as one of its founders. He was born in 1903 in North Berkeley, California. While in high school, he worked for the Berkeley Police Department for August Vollmer. He assisted John Larson during his early polygraph work. At the time, John Larson was beginning his experiments into detecting deception using his "breadboard" polygraph. A cumbersome instrument, requiring smoked drums, he tested criminal suspects for the Berkeley Police Department. Leonard Keeler was fascinated with the process, a fascination which would turn into a life-long pursuit. He would sneak into the basement of the Berkeley Police Department and "test" his friends using this cumbersome device.

The instrument itself had many drawbacks. It took a half hour to set up. The paper used to record physiological responses had to be smoked and were smudgy and messy. They were very brittle and even with the utmost care, they broke and cracked. The pens on this instrument scratched tracings onto this smoked paper. To preserve the charts once the examination was completed, they had to be shellacked and stored in cans. Although the forerunner of modern polygraph instruments, Keeler found it lacking in many respects. Nicknamed "Shaggy" by the local media, John Larson’s instrument was Leonard Keeler’s first instrument.

Keeler's Second Instrument

"Narde" Keeler and his Emotograph.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1923. He moved shortly after that to enroll in UCLA after Chief Vollmer left Berkeley to accept a new job as the Chief of Police for Los Angeles. Keeler continued to improve his skills in interrogation and lie detection. He had long been disenchanted with the instrument that John Larson used in his work. Cumbersome and messy, Keeler decided to go about creating a new one. Leonard Keeler designed the instrument on paper, using his background in physics, mechanics, and electricity. Vollmer looked at the plans and told Keeler that if he built it, he would "give him a chance to try it out." That’s all Keeler needed. The instrument was conceived and designed with the help of two old friends, Ralph Brandt and Elwood "Doc" Woolsey, high school friends of Leonarde Keeler. The "Three Musketeers" as they called themselves, work between and after classes on this new instrument. When it was finally completed Leonard Keeler called it "The Emotograph." He replaced the smoked paper with an ink polygraph system based on Sir James MacKenzie’s Ink Polygraph which had been used in medical science since the early 1900's. It was smaller, easier to use, August Vollmer described Keeler’s first lie detector as "a crazy conglomeration or wires, tubes, and old tomato cans." It’s first use resulted in a confession in a murder case. That day, Leonard Keeler’s career in lie detection was launched in the press. According to Eloise Keeler, this instrument was destroyed in a fire at Keeler’s residence in 1925.

Keeler's Third Instrument

Western Electro Mechanical Co.

In 1924, Leonard Keeler’s first handmade polygraph instrument, he called "the Emotograph," was destroyed in a fire at Keeler’s residence. Eloise Keeler reports that before the ashes were cold from this fire, Leonard was busy designing a new instrument.

August Vollmer, Chief of Police of the Berkeley Police Department took Keeler to William Scherer of the Western Electro Mechanical Company. Following Keeler’s plan and written instructions, Scherer developed a mechanical metal bellow, a motor drive, a pneumograph to go around the chest, and a mechanical indicator to mark the graph when a question was asked. The new polygraph was encased in a wooden mahogany box that looked like a traveling case. This was later changed to a metal toolbox, made and custom altered by the Kennedy Tool Box company of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. In the first three months of its creation, they sold sixty to eighty or these new polygraphs to departments in California and all over the country. It was the first mass-produced polygraph or "Lie Detector."

Leonard Keeler described his new polygraph in an issue of the American Journal of Police Science. He said t The apparatus consisted of three units, one recording continuously and quantitatively the blood pressure and pulse; another giving a duplicate blood pressure pulse curve taken from some other part of the subject’s body and may be utilized for recording muscular reflexes of the arm or leg, and the third unit recording respiration. The paper, perforated on its edges, is drawn by a sprocket feeder roll which is driven by a synchronous motor similar to that used in electric clocks. A differential gear train provides for three speeds and is easily shifted by the movement of a small lever. A ninety-foot roll or paper supplies the recording chart and the curves are recorded by means of a combined lever arm and fountain pen. A sphygmomanometer of the usual dial type is mounted on the panel and connected through a three-way valve to either of the blood pressure systems, providing a means for determining the actual pressure in either system. The metal bellows or tambour stack, which constitutes the reproducing element of each unit, is mounted in a horizontal position below the panel on sliding runs, and is moved forward or backwards (toward or away from the pivot shaft to which is attached the lever arm pen) by means of a rack and pinion, which is controlled by a convenient knob on the panel. The position of the tambour unit in relation to the pivot shaft must be changed according to the pressure utilized in the system. The closed end of the tambour unit is kept at a constant distance from the pivot shaft. A signal magnet actuated by a push button at the end of a convenient length cord is mounted below the recording panel and the connected pen marks on the recording chart. The while apparatus is contained in a carrying case measuring 16 x 8 x 9 inches. All accessories, the lead to the 110v outlet, signal magnet cord, blood pressure cuffs and tubing, and pneumograph are carried in a compartment below the mechanism compartment, The instrument is portable and always ready for immediate use.

Worked independently of Larson, first of the Los Angeles Police Department, and at the University of Southern California, later at Stanford with Professor Miles, and still later at the Institute for Juvenile Research, Leonard Keeler continued his polygraph research. Records made and filed in Keeler’s office cover more than 30,000 cases. While they were never compiled statistically, they nevertheless showed a high percentage of accuracy and successful results. In 1930, Leonard Keeler moved to Chicago to work in the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory at Northwestern University. He became the head of the crime laboratory at the university in 1936. He held that position until 1938 when he entered private business. Leonard Keeler opened the first polygraph school, known as the "Keeler Institute." He worked as a private polygraph consultant until his death in 1949.

Made from a Kennedy Tool Box Co.

Leonard Keeler's Personal Instrument

Western Electro Mechanical Prototype

The American Polygraph Historical Society was gifted what is to be believed the prototype of the Western Electro Mechanical Company’s first polygraph. The instrument was built for Leonard Keeler by William Scherer and used by Leonard Keeler himself. Over time, Keeler replaced it with many new instruments but saved it for posterity. It was given to Leonard Harrelson, who became Keeler’s confidant and director of the Keeler Polygraph Institute until Keeler’s death in 1949 as a memento of their friendship. Leonard Harrelson presented it to the A.P.H.S. in 1996 for preservation. It has been ravaged by time, and currently mounted in a mahogany box consisting of the top panel and kymograph. It is believed to be the prototype instrument due to its lack of any faceplate or markings on the top panel, nor any evidence that they ever existed. Production instruments would have included these identifiers, but the prototype would not have needed them. Leonard Harrelson reports that this particular instrument was used by Leonard "Nard" Keeler in 1944 to test a group of German POW’s imprisoned at Fort Getty, Rhode Island, to determine their suitability to become police officers in post-WWII Germany.

The Keeler #302

Associated Research

The Model #301 replaced Leonard Keeler’s second polygraph invented in 1925. It was the first polygraph instrument manufactured for Keeler by Associated Research, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. The Model #302 was introduced in the 1950's and added the "third channel," called a "psychogalvanometer" to the Keeler instrument. This device was manufactured by 'Associated Research' of Chicago, Illinois and utilizes seven batteries, along with an AC power source. It is housed in a steel case with wrinkle finish and chromium trim. The cover is attached to the case with slip hinges allowing the cover to be removed. The chart drive unit is powered by a synchronous motor at speeds of either six or twelve inches per minute. There are four recording pens, the lower pen and its associated control comprise the pulse blood pressure unit, while the longer pen records electrodermal variations. Located above the electrodermal pen is the pen for recording respiration changes, and at the top of the panel is the stimulus marker pen actuated by means of a flexible cable attached at the lower left of the panel. At the center of the instrument panel is a standard sphygmomanometer, used as a guide to proper inflation of the blood pressure cuff. This instrument is not in The Polygraph Museum's Collection. The picture and narrative are courtesy of Ron Decker.

Keeler Model #302C

Associated Research 

The Keeler Model #302 had two modifications, the Model 302B, and Model 302C. This instrument to the left is a Model #302C.

It utilizes seven batteries, along with an AC power source. It is housed in a steel case with wrinkle finish and chromium trim. The cover is attached to the case with slip hinges allowing the cover to be removed. The chart drive unit is powered by a synchronous motor at speeds of either six or twelve inches per minute. There are three recording pens, the lower pen, and its associated controls comprise the pulse-blood pressure unit, while the longer pen records electrodermal variations. At the center of the panel is a standard sphygmomanometer, used as a guide to proper inflation of the blood pressure cuff. - This instrument is in very bad shape and should be used for parts only. We are only using ours for display purposes. 

Keeler Model #304

Associated Research 

In 1952, Russell Chatham was awarded a contract to perform polygraph examinations of employees of the Atomic Energy Facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. When awarded the contract, Chatham had Associated Research build instruments for him with his name on them. They were two pen units, a cardiosphygmograph and a pneumographic with an Esterline Angus two speed sprocket drive kymograph. No more than 20 of these instruments were ever manufactured. Fewer than five have survived.

Keeler Model #6303

Associated Research 

The Keeler Model #6303 was a hybrid between the Keller Model #302 and the Model #6308, the first of the Pace Setter Series of polygraphs manufactured by Associated Research. It was a sleeker design than the Model #302 but still used vacuum tubes. Associated research replaced the stainless steel face with a blue acrylic faceplate. It had three separate channels. Pneumographic, cardiograph, and galvanometer. It used a community inking system.

Keeler Model #6308

Associated Research 

The Keeler Model #6308 went into production in the mid 1960's. It was the first of the "Pacesetter" series of polygraphs manufactured by Associated Research. It was a three channel polygraph instrument, designed to record physiological changes of "pulse rate, blood pressure, respiration and skin resistance." The Model 6308 shown here was manufactured by 'Keeler Polygraph' which was a division of 'Associated Research' of Chicago, Illinois. This instrument was used in the late 1960's, initially in the Military, and continued being used until the late 1970's in some States. The Model 6308 is one of the first instruments that can easily be changed from a desk mount to a portable unit without tools. The instruments three separate channels provide a continuous recording of changes in heart rate and blood pressure, breathing rate and skin resistance. It was the first Keeler instrument to use transistors. The G.S.R. component consisted of a pair of finger electrodes, or a hand electrode connected to an input circuit of a direct couple solid-state amplifier with a balanced differential output, feeding the pens. The 6308 utilized a newly designed epoxy encapsulated printed circuits that assured long, trouble-free operation, The Model 6308 is 18" x 9" x 6" and weighs approximately twenty pounds with its accessories. The Model 6308 was sold for $1325.00, which included all required detachable accessories and initial operating supplies consisting of chart paper, ink and conducting jelly. This instrument, serial # 283, was purchased in October of 1969. It was used less than twenty times and then stored until 1998 when donated to the museum.

Keeler Model #6318

Associated Research

The Keeler Model #6318 went into production in the mid-1960's. It was a three channel polygraph instrument, designed to record physiological changes of "pulse rate, blood pressure, respiration and skin resistance." It was identical to the Model 6308, but it could also be operated on battery power. It was equipped with an individual inking system and a sprocket drive kymograph.

Keeler Model #6317

Associated Research 

The Keeler Polygraph Model 6317 shown here was manufactured by the 'Associated Research Company' of Chicago, Illinois. This unit was developed and placed into service during the latter part of 1950, at a time when the most common use for the polygraph was in the field of business for employment screening. During the Korean War, this instrument was utilized by the C.I.A, and again in the early 1960' to polygraph Cuban Nationals to determine if they were spies. This instrument was designed to simulate a piece of luggage, not only to meet F.A.A. regulations but to prevent it from being easily detected throughout the espionage community.

The Model 6317 was one of the first instruments in production utilizing a completely transistorized circuitry. It also boasted itself as being one of the first fully portable polygraph instruments. The Model 6317, along with its sister models developed by 'Associated Research' was in service until the early 1960's. This instrument sold for approximately $1450.00 - This instrument is not in The Polygraph Museum's collection.  Photograph and narrative courtesy of Ron Decker, Polygraph Examiner.

Keeler Model #6328

Associated Research

The Arther II Polygraph 

Specially made for Dick Arther of the National Training Center in New York, and available only to graduates of his polygraph school, the Arther II is a modification of the Keeler Model #6308. It included a GSR component and well as a stimulus marker.

This instrument, serial #41, was manufactured in 1970. It was used between 1971 and 1974 by Louis Seibt, the newly trained polygraph examiner for the Fort Wayne, Indiana Police Department, and retired in 1974 with the purchase of a new Lafayette instrument.

Keeler Model #6338

Associated Research 

The 'Keeler Polygraph' Model 6338 shown here was the first 'Plethysmic Polygraph' manufactured by 'Associated Research' of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1950's. This instrument is the first in the 'Pacesetter Series' which incorporated for the first time an integral photo/optical plethysmograph. The Model 6338 was introduced as a four channel instrument, which recorded simultaneously changes in relative blood pressure, heart rate, pulse wave amplitude, blood volume, oxygenation of the blood, respiration and electrical skin resistance. These reading are obtained by utilizing electronic and pneumatic monitoring. The 6338 required a 115 volt AC current. It weighs twenty- four pounds and is 18" x 11" x 6". The 6338 incorporated newly designed printed circuits and a new inking system where the pens are fed from removable, individually capped ink bottles with colored ink available. The newly designed vent valves have a positive lock to prevent leaks. The design of the cardio cuff, pump bulb assembly and clamp remained basically the same as the 'Pacesetter Series'. There were three different traveling cases available, which confirmed to Federal Aviation requirements at the time for travel. The price for this model was $2325.00. The 'Keeler Polygraph' Model 6338 remained in service through the early 1960's.

 Statement Analysis 
A lie will only hide the truth; it will never replace or become the truth

SCAN was developed and refined by Avinoam Sapir and has become one of the most effective techniques available for obtaining information and detecting deception from statements of victims, witnesses or suspects.  SCAN (analysis of statements) is an essential tool for law enforcement personnel, investigators, social service personnel, and anyone else who needs to obtain information from written material. Initially, it is best with a written statement, but once one has enough training, and experience they can just as easily do this with spoken words, which can be used in real time during an interview or interrogation. LSI provides SCAN training throughout the US and Canada, and also in Mexico, the UK, Israel, Australia, and other countries. More information can be found at a link on the bottom of this page 

1992: SCAN (Scientific Content Analysis) was brought to the Central District's Major Crime Unit. SCAN was a Linguistic Polygraph technique that, at the time, was so new that the department had never heard of it, and as such, they refused to pay for the course. Officer Driscoll was coming back from a line of duty injury and had received a Workers Compensation payout. Ken used a large portion of that to pay for the training. Within a few months of Driscoll showing, it to different units throughout the department, he was invited to help with various cases, analyzing statements in just about every unit or division within the department, everything from Homicide to Sex offenses to Robbery, Missing persons, and all of the robbery and burglary units in CID and the district's MCU (Major Crime Units) or DDU (District Detective Units). He started out being limited to "Area 1," and before long they added Area 2, but of course if someone came to him from Area 3, he wasn't turning them down. Ken couldn't resist helping out in any and all cases. He also did statements for the State’s Attorney’s Office and various outside agencies like Baltimore County, Ann Arundel County, and Maryland State Police anyone that came to him for help with cases, he took their statement's and trust me, he was loving it. I know he used to come home and tell me and the kids about various cases which taught us how to use the technique. Our youngest daughter was born in 1993, so she grew up learning this technique, while learning to talk, she was learning to detect deception, often while she and her father got to talking, it seemed they both use the technique as if it were second nature to them. I know what it did for Ken's career and am seeing what it is doing for hers. One was a detective, the other a student psychologist. Let's face it, the truth is the truth, and knowing where the truth ends and deceptions begin will help anyone on any career path.  Before leaving the department in 2001 for surgery due to a LOD injury, Det. Driscoll was asked to teach his introductory course to Baltimore's Homicide Unit. BTW His course was authorized by Avinoam Sapir from LSI. Avinoam Sapir developed and refined Statement Analysis, and because Det. Driscoll took it so seriously that he found several observations that had not yet been discovered, Avinoam called Ken a Guru on the subject. "Point of Perspective, "Here vs. There" was just one of Kenny's many observations that were eventually included in LSI's training after Ken brought it to Mr. Sapir’s attention.

Ken still uses the technique and practices reading statements, even though he has been retired since 2003. One of the more well-known cases he was involved in was the Laci Peterson case, in which he contacted the Modesto, California, Police and offered his assistance, providing an observation of Scott Peterson's words. These observations came within five days of Laci’s going missing. Based on something Scott said to the media about his wife's disappearance, Kenny knew she was dead and not missing, as Scott was trying to report. To Ken, it came easy: if Scott Peterson knew she was dead when everyone else only suspected her as missing, then he must have killed her. At the time, The Modesto, California, Police said it was too early; they didn’t want to accuse him of anything too soon. But within the year, they asked Ret. Det. Driscoll for a complete write-up of his observations. BTW, I should point out that at first, he wasn't welcomed with open arms; initially they said something to the effect of, "If she is dead, and he knows it, as you said, he isn't the only one, because you also said she is dead, so how do we know you didn't do it?" Ken said, "Well, I am maybe 3000 miles away, give or take, and I am in a wheelchair, so good luck with that theory. When you find out she is dead, I can tell you about when and where she got dead. Feel free to contact me." Kenny was able to tell them what room she was killed in and the approximate time that she was killed, all based on Scott Peterson’s words. Within a year, Laci’s Body was recovered, and Scott Peterson was arrested, tried, and convicted of her murder. Other cases he assisted with included Haleigh Cummings, in which police were told to look more closely at the girlfriend; Ken was told she passed her polygraph. Ken said, "No offense, but the polygraph is only as good as the examiner and the questions asked. I know from the words used; the girlfriend knows more than she is telling." A few years later, it was determined the girl may have been taken from the girlfriend over money she owed for drugs. 

The technique is very strong in the right hands and has been used to solve many cases throughout this country and internationally.  The first time it was actually used in a case for Baltimore police was about 6 to 8 months after Ken had started using it; he had come back to work after a surgery that nearly ended his career in 1993. He had been telling everyone about the course and how it worked. One night a call came out for a carjacking, and within 45 minutes of the report, some officers in Sector 4 of the Central District found the car with a driver that matched the description given in the BOLO. The officers thought it would be an easy case for Ken, and at the same time, he could get them a quick confession, making the court part easy for everyone. Ken sat down and had the suspect write a statement. Ken began to read and analyze the statement. After the first read over, he found nothing, so he read it again and again, but he couldn't find the deception. Confused for a few minutes, he began to doubt his ability with a technique that during training he never had trouble with; he was 100% in training statements. Then it hit him: during training he never had a truthful statement, so he called the reporting person in, and in order to get what is called a pure original statement, he explained he was just handed the case and knows nothing at all about it, so if he could, would he write down what happened? This was important because if you ask someone to tell you what happened and they tell you, then ask them to write it down, the words in the written statement will be different from the spoken statement, and those changes could be important. So, Ken always had it written before they talked. Not that if they weren't there, there wouldn't be other words to use, but the life of an analyst is much easier if everything is pure. As the victim of this carjacking finished his statement and started to turn it 180 degrees from his seat to Ken's across the table from him, Ken had glanced down and already seen deception on the page. Even more was found when he read the entire statement. After being confronted by Ken and before leaving, the reporting person gave a new statement, one with no deception, that nearly matched word for word with the statement given by the suspect arrested in that car. This was important as it cleared a man of false charges made against him—charges that could have kept him locked up for anywhere from 6 months to a year before a trial may have set him free, and even then, it would have been up to the reporting person to have come clean. Ken letting the carjack suspect go didn't go off without a hitch; the arresting officer and his sergeant wanted Ken's butt. But once they learned, Ken didn't just let a guy go because the guy fooled him or refused to confess; he had the reporting person confess, and better yet, without knowing what the arrested man said, the reporting person gave a similar version of events. So, this started off big, and when the Major learned of this newfound technique, it led to Ken's being transferred to the major crimes unit, where he would work the last 10 years of his career and receive 4 of his 6 Officer of the Year Awards. Now, after being retired for 15 years, Ken received the 7th Officer of the Year Award, which was written more like a lifetime achievement award and can be found on another page I made for him that you can find by clicking  HERE.

 "It does not take many words to tell the truth." Sitting Bull

"Just as it takes few words to tell the truth, it often takes many words to bury a lie.."

When we speak the truth, it is concise and straightforward, requiring no embellishments or elaborate explanations. On the other hand, when someone tries to conceal the truth or deceive others, they often resort to lengthy explanations and convoluted stories to cover up their lies. This highlights the power and simplicity of truth, as opposed to the complexity and verbosity of falsehoods.

In 1993 the following statement was written by a citizen who had earlier in the night reported he was the victim of a carjacking. This statement was not written until after he filed his report with Southern District Patrol and a suspect was arrested within 45 minutes by Central District Officers while he was still in the car. The suspect in that arrest gave a statement, to a Central District Patrolman that had studied and learned a new technique that provided a kind of linguistic polygraph. It is interesting that after a year of trying to get this technique seriously looked at by the department, it took this case to change things.

Using the SCAN technique, the officer found the statement provided by the suspect in this case to have been credible. With this the officer called the reporting person into the district to tell him he had taken over his case, and that he wanted him to write a statement as to what happened, while the officer pulled reports. Within 15 minutes of reading the statement, the officer had a confession from the victim, stating that he had lied, and that he was not carjacked. He gave an account of the night’s events that matched more closely those given by the suspect they had in holding. As promised the guy they had in lock-up was released without charges. Making the first time this technique was used, in our agency, it was used to clear an innocent man from being charged with a very serious crime. The Officer was transferred to the District’s Major Crime Unit where he remained for the next 10 years, clearing the innocent, and gaining confessions from the guilty. He also trained and will still train any Baltimore City Officer interested in learning the technique for FREE.

 

 

 

Voice stress analysis (VSA) and computer voice stress analysis (CVSA) are collectively a pseudoscientific technology that aims to infer deception from stress measured in the voice. The CVSA records the human voice using a microphone, and the technology is based on the tenet that the non-verbal, low-frequency content of the voice conveys information about the physiological and psychological state of the speaker. Typically utilized in investigative settings, the technology aims to differentiate between stressed and non-stressed outputs in response to stimuli (e.g., questions posed), with high stress seen as an indication of deception.

The use of voice stress analysis (VSA) for the detection of deception is controversial. Discussions about the application of VSA have focused on whether this technology can indeed reliably detect stress, and, if so, whether deception can be inferred from this stress. Critics have argued that—even if stress could reliably be measured from the voice—this would be highly similar to measuring stress with the polygraph, for example, and that all critiques centered on polygraph testing apply to VSA as well. A 2002 review of the state of the art conducted for the United States Department of Justice found several technical challenges to the technology, including the same problem of determining deception. When reviewing the literature on the effectiveness of VSA in 2003, the National Research Council concluded, “Overall, this research and the few controlled tests conducted over the past decade offer little or no scientific basis for the use of the computer voice stress analyzer or similar voice measurement instruments”.^:168 A 2013 paper published in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics reviewed the "scientific implausibility" of its principles and "ungrounded claims of the aggressive propaganda from sellers of voice stress analysis gadgets".

Confession made following a voice stress examination was allowed to be used as evidence in a case in Wisconsin in 2014. In the case of the murder of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe confessions were made while three suspects were undergoing VSA which were later found to be false by a judge; the manufacturer of the VSA equipment later settled a lawsuit that alleged that it was liable for the harm the three suspects suffered. In a similar case, Donovan Allen falsely confessed to killing his mother after failing a VSA test. He was acquitted 15 years later based on exonerating DNA evidence. George Zimmerman was given a VSA after he fatally shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.

 False Confessions

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One thing the Major Crime Unit didn't deal with much, were false confessions. One time they had a guy claim he gave Ken a false confession, even provided a polygraph result that said he had passed the test, clearing him of the theft being investigated. This was done in an attempt to clear himself. Ken suggested he do one of two things: either allow the department's polygraph examiner to retest him or have his polygraph examiner retest him using Ken's questions. Ken said a polygraph is only as good as the questions and the examiner. He emphasized that it was crucial to ensure the accuracy of the polygraph results by using standardized and unbiased questioning techniques. Ken also highlighted the importance of having a qualified and experienced polygraph examiner who follows strict protocols to minimize the chances of a false positive or an incorrect negative finding. In this case, the suspect said he would still go to trial and plead guilty, but he just wanted Ken to know and believe that he didn't do it. Ken told him that if he didn't do it, he couldn't take a guilty plea because the courts wouldn't knowingly allow it. Ken stuck to his guns, saying he either needed the questions asked or to have him retake the test using Ken's questions. Ken explained that, not knowing the questions, he could have had someone quiz him on a totally different crime than the one being investigated. In the end, the guy agreed that that was what he had done; he had written out the questions for his polygraph examiner in a way that he could easily answer them as if he didn't commit the crime being committed because he was being questioned over a different theft. He said he knew if he had to answer any questions written out by Ken, they would have been more specific to the crime he had committed, and he wouldn't have been able to fool the system. 

It should also be noted that Ken didn't know the questions he was asked. Ken was handed a letter saying he passed the polygraph and was cleared of the theft being investigated. But there were no examples of the questions. For all Ken knew, the questions could have been, "Did you steal the Mona Lisa?" "Did you steal the Hope diamond?" to which the suspect could honestly answer, "No, he didn't!" 

When confronted, the suspect went on to say that when he confessed he was being honest, he did rob his company's safe and steal the daily receipts. His girlfriend had broken up with him when she learned he had stolen from his workplace. He tried to claim he had provided a false confession. And he came up with the idea of writing out questions about a different theft than the one being investigated; he found a theft in the newspaper, so it would be current, and he could convince the polygraph examiner to think it was the crime he was being charged with or suspected of. In the end, the polygraph technician cleared him of that crime, but Ken had never suspected him of committing that crime in the first place. Ken said that, to be honest, it might have worked. Ken was busy, overworked, and had more important cases on his desk when the guy came back in. But like most cases, when Ken was heavy into SCAN, a single word or phrase stood out; it just stuck with Ken, and here, the note said it, and the suspect said it, and what Ken said felt like too much emphasis when the suspect said, "I passed the test, proving I didn't commit the theft being investigated!" The way he said, "The theft being investigated!" which was also written on the letter that said he passed the polygraph. It just drew too much attention to the fact that there may have been another theft other than the one being investigated, and when it seemed too many words were used or words were uncomforatably strung together, it stood out to Ken, making him question why. 

Ken always felt that if you ask the right questions and the suspect confesses and provides information that could only be known by the person that committed the crime, a false confession is less likely and more impossible. He cautioned against giving information during the interview. There was a saying his instructors said, "Be the well, not the fountain." Meaning, gather information, don't give it out, and be careful with your questions, because your questions can teach the interviewee what not to say as he or she learns more about what you know or don't know about the crime being investigated. In the end, he confessed for a second time that he did rob the company safe. All the company wanted was for him to find a new job.  

NOTE: Technically, he could have taken an "Alford Plea." Almost 50 years ago, the US Supreme Court recognized that if certain criteria were met, a sentencing judge could accept a plea—in effect, a de facto plea of guilty—from an individual who maintained they were, in fact, innocent. In the case, Alford pleaded guilty to second degree murder in order to escape a potential death sentence. Ordinarily, a guilty plea must include a knowing and intelligent waiver of trial and an admission of guilt. In fact, a trial judge must generally conduct a searching inquiry into whether or not there is a factual basis that a crime occurred, that the defendant committed it, and that this is the conduct to which the defendant is admitting. As a detective, Ken used the same standards; he wouldn't take a confession on a crime he didn't think the subject committed. In Alford, the Supreme Court determined that an admission of guilt was not constitutionally required. Ken knew of Alford pleas but wanted a case that was unquestionably a case of not just knowing he had the right guy but also making sure that guy knew he wasn't fooling anyone. Well, may his girlfriend. Ken wasn't their couples counselor, and often when he broke someone for falsely claiming they were abducted, it was reported as a kind of a late note to explain to a wife, husband, mother, etc. why they were not somewhere they should have been. Once broken, Ken used to tell them, "You can lie to your wife, your mother, or your preist, but don't lie to the Baltimore Police!"  Ken took pride in his ability to not only uncover the truth but to also instill a sense of accountability in those he interrogated. His stern warning served as a reminder that honesty is crucial when dealing with law enforcement. Ken's dedication to his job earned him the respect of his colleagues and reinforced the importance of trust and integrity within the community. 

 

  It was a long time after the Polygraph that two new techniques came along,
Polygraph Machine and Voice Stress Analysis

Information on the Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation can be found by clicking anywhere on this line.

 Voice Stress Analysis

 COATLESS "COPS"? NO!

Jul 15, 1912

The Sun (1837-1989); pg. 8

COATLESS “COPS”? NO!

Policemen, Fat and Thin, Balk At
Suggestions For Comfort.

MARSHALL FARNAN SWATS PLAN

Modest Apollo’s, weary of displaying formless, sidestep proposals for a shirtwaist forced

Police official do not seem to take kindly to the suggestion of a “shirtwaist” form in hot weather. The idea has been advanced that lighter clothing would increase the comfort and efficiency of the men as it was done with letter carriers.

Marshall Farnan would be perfectly willing to have the men wear shirtwaist if it were practicable, but he says he doesn’t think it will be.

“In the first place,” said the Marshal, “they wouldn’t have any place to put their pistols. A policeman carries his gun in a holster (in his pocket) under his coat where he can get to it quickly. If he had to wear a shirtwaist he would have to carry it in his back pocket, and probably but in the pocket even at that, it would attract attention and be hard to get out quickly if he needed it.

“Of course, a policeman doesn’t often need his gun, but when he does wanted he wants it badly and he wants a quick. That’s the main reason against shirtwaist’s.

In rainstorms and tussles

“Then if he got caught in a rainstorm and had his shirtwaist soaked, he would be a rather forlorn looking site until he changed it. A man can’t keep a couple of shirtwaist handy, so as to put them on when he gets wet. A coat doesn’t look so bad when it gets wet.

“And then there’s another thing. When a policeman starts to arrest some fellows he often has to wrestle with his prisoner and it would be easy to have a shirtwaist ripped off. Some of the men even get their coats torn. A policeman with a ripple shirtwaist would be like a fellow coming home in a barrel.

“The close the men wear in the summer has been chosen because of its lightweight. You could almost see through the stuff, but it wears well and it’s economical.”

“How would you like to wear a shirtwaist?” He was asked. “Well,” he mused, “I don’t know. I’m so used to wearing a coat that I guess if I went out in a shirtwaist I take a side street, so that no policeman would see me and arrest me for not having enough close on. I’m not built for shirtwaist, anyway.”

Views of Stout and thin

One of the Stout policeman was asked what he thought of the plan.

“Say,” he puffed, wiping his steaming face, “I’m hot now, all right, but if I had to wear one of those things and have fresh guys coming along every few minutes yelling, “peak – a – Bill,” I guess I’d be hotter still. I’m right touchy about my shape. Somebody would come along and say, “get a V shape, officer, get a V-shaped –“ and I guess I’d have a sweet time explaining to the police magistrate that I had run a fellow in for disorderly conduct.”

One of the thin ones was asked if he would like to wear a shirtwaist. “Say,” he replied, “what would I look like, standing at the corner of Charles and Baltimore streets at 2 o’clock of an afternoon with a shirtwaist on and no suspenders. I’m thin; can’t you see that? And my suspenders do real work. No, sir re-, none of these shirtwaist for mine. Let the letter carriers wear them – nobody loves them.”

More info on going coatless can be found HERE

 

Copyright © 2002 Baltimore City Police History - Ret Det Kenny Driscoll

Baltimore Police 1st went Coatless in 1922

 1923 New York City Newspaper Report Showing a Baltimore Police Officer Coatless in Public
The below pic explains this pic, as does the rest of this article

The First day BPD went Coatless was 18 July 1922 but this was limited to our Traffic officers directing traffic
The remainder of the officers in Baltimore would have to wear their coats until 6 June 1925 when Commissioner Gaither issued an order, saying all members of the police department while working between the hours of 8 A.M. and 4 P.M. may remove their coats and go out in their "Shirt Sleeves" provided they wear a clean, and pressed "White Oxford Shirt," with a Black Tie.

1912 – 15 July 1912 – Officers had been wearing coats on duty and off duty, winter and summer, with no chance of going coatless in site. Marshall Farnan said he would be perfectly willing to have his men wear shirtwaist if it were practicable, but he says he doesn’t think it will be. “In the first place,” said the Marshal, “They wouldn’t have any place to put their pistols. [This was a time before the duty belt, wearing of a sidearm on our hip, back then, the gun was simply slipped into a pocket holster, within their coat] "If he had to wear a shirtwaist," continued the Marshal, "he would have to carry his pistol in his back pocket, and probably but in the pocket even at that, it would attract attention and be hard to get out quickly if he needed it." “Of course, a policeman doesn’t often need his gun, but when he does want it he wants it badly, and he wants a quick." That’s the main reason Farnan was so dead set against shirtwaists. HERE

1922 – 18 July 1922 – Traffic Officers will be allowed to appear coatless on job while wearing attractive white Oxford Shirts. These officers will start wearing long sleeve white Oxford shirts with a low, turned-down collar and a black tie as they preside to direct traffic on their assigned street corners.

1925 – 6 June 1925 – General Charles Gaither issued an order, effective, 6 June 1925 all members of the Baltimore Police Department who are on duty between 8 A.M. and 4 P.M. may remove their coats provided they are wearing a white Oxford shirt, and a black tie. This privilege has been granted for the previous two years for department’s traffic officers.

1956 – 29 June 1956 – Casual But Official, Patrolman Donald Miller displayed the latest open-neck short-sleeve police shirts that would be worn for the remainder of the [1956] summer by Baltimore's officers. Police officials stressed that only a specific model Oxford shirt has been approved, thereby eliminating the danger of patrolmen selecting the more brightly colored type shirts of their liking.

17 July 1922

Coatless Day Era Dawns - For Traffic Cop at Last

Beginning tomorrow 18 July 1922 regulators of vehicles and pedestrians will appear on job in attractive white Oxford shirts. The traffic cops start slinging a dog tomorrow. In white Oxford shirts with low, turned - down collars and natty little black four-in-hands they will preside at the street corners.

The era of the perspiring officer in the Go-Go Boxes is at an end.  Someone has taken pity on them.  Beginning at 8:00 AM tomorrow they will hang up their coats and go to work. Some “friend” of the policemen has donated money for 20 dozen shirts.

Instructions with Shirts

This friend has seen the plight of the cops.  The money was not forthcoming from the city, so he relieved their discomfort.
Today four shirts are being issued to each director of traffic.  With them go instructions as to the way they are to be worn.

On the left breast there is a pocket, over this the police badge will be pinned.  That and the necktie will complete the equipment.
The gift marks one deviation from the custom the police are used to.  They are in the habit of paying for all their equipment.  Small amounts are taken from each pay until these charges are covered.  But the shirts will not cost them a cent.  That isn’t the only reason they will be welcome, however.  If you have noticed any policemen standing in his “place in the sun” during the past few days, you’ll understand why the heavy coats are not popular and why they’re smiling today over the prospect of cooler times to come. Commissioner Gaither refused to divulge the name of the donor.  The money came last week, and Captain Stephen Nelson, of the traffic department, was ordered to get bids on the shirts. [A1]

Coatless Cops Rejected

The patrolman on the beat will continue to wear their coats.  It is pointed out that they have opportunities to avail themselves of the shade now and then.  But the traffic men had no escape from the heat.

6 June 1925

Coats Off in Court

Coatless men were everywhere. In the Court of Common Pleas, Judge W Stuart Symington told the jurors, lawyers and witnesses that they might remove their coats and make themselves as comfortable as possible. All took advantage of the privilege except the Judge himself.

Mr. Gaither issued an order, effective today, 6 June 1925 that members of the police department who are on duty between 8A. M. and 4 P.M. may remove their coats provided they wear white shirts, white colors and black ties. This privilege has been granted for the last two years for Baltimore’s traffic police.

 

Unfortunately there is no better copy of this article available. we will look to see if we can find the original.

29 June 1956

1956 - 29 June 1956 - Casual But Official – Patrolman Donald Miller displays the latest open-neck short-sleeve style in police shirts which will be worn for the remainder of the summer by Baltimore officers. Police officials stress that only a specific model oxford hurt has been approved, thereby eliminating the danger of patrolmen selecting the more brightly colored type shirts of their liking.

A1 - Note, there was once a problem with payroll, and checks couldn't be issued, the commissioner General Charles Gaither, paid every officer on the force out of his pocket, he was re-reimbursed, but he didn't want his guys to go without pay, so he took it out of his own funds. While studying intersections working on a traffic safety board of some kind with Triple-A and other Police Chiefs around the country as they tried to establish a national standard for traffic lights. The commissioner of the NYPD felt two lights was enough, Gaither having studied this on his own, knew we needed a third light, he argued without a middle light, pedestrians, and left turning vehicles will be stranded every time a light changes. So, Gaither watched these police on these corners working the GO-GO - Semaphore and other intersections traffic devises. So, when a donation of 20 dozen shirts come in, it is his way of not just helping those he has watched work and admires, but also making sure they all have the same shirts, and they are hurts he approves of. I would bet money he bought the shirts for his men.

 

  These pics were ran to show officers can look more professional in a uniform without a coat than they do sweating while wearing a coat

 

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222-3333
Emergency Number

 

20 May 1987

Emergency Number - Call Police at 222-3333

The City Police Department's communication bureau will start an expanded operation at 8 A.M. tomorrow. Citizens in distress are urged to call the police on the new EMERGENCY NUMBER: 222-3333 Police officials, anxious to put the new nerve center in operation, predict that persons calling for police assistance will get "quick telephone response and prompt service."

Two of the major criticisms made by the International Association of Chiefs of Police last year was that the public had difficulty contacting the department on its overloaded telephone circuits and officers were slow in arriving at trouble areas.

150 More Radio Cars

To correct both problems the department has increased from five to ten the number of emergency telephone lines to communications, and added about 150 radio cars to its patrol fleet. In addition, patrol cars will be dispatched on four frequencies instead of the present two. Along with the increased number of dispatch frequencies and the additional emergency telephone lines the communications bureau has added more than a dozen men to operate the modernized system. The over-all change was precipitated by a general increase in calls for service, the added mobility of the department and a new and more accurate reporting and-records-keeping system which is gradually being phased into the department, district by district.

More Arrests Forecast

An official in the Planning and Research Division said that surveys have revealed that by culling the response time- how long it takes the police to get to the scene of reported crime the department will increase its arrest percentage. The cost of the new communications center was greatly reduced by the use of the department's maintenance crew which has worked on a crash schedule for the past four months to have it completed by tomorrow's deadline. The entire radio system was designed and installed by departmental personnel assigned to the communications bureau. The multi-position console was fashioned and constructed by the maintenance crew, which also ripped out partitions of four rooms and a hall to create one large room in which to locate the new facility. One official estimated that the department may have saved close to $200,000 by drawing on the talents of its members.

DIAL 222-3333
Officers man the new Communication Bureau at Central District Police Headquarters.
The emergency number under the new system, 222-3333, and went into use on 20 May 1967.

Emergency Number
Timeline

1921 - 4 March 1921 - Marine Unit Radios Installed - Commissioner Gaither announces telephone-radio communication from his Marine Unit. He announced he would be using Navy surplus telephone-radios. The radios would be installed in Deputy Marshal George G. Henry’s office, as well as both police boats the Lannan and the Carter. These were set up as one-way radio’s in which the Marshal could pass information on the two police boats. The boats could then go to one of eight police call boxes strategically placed on shore. It would be nearly two years later in June of 1923 that they would have the system converted over to a Two-way radio system. In this instance, they used the most current military surplus radio equipment, set first in the Robert D. Carter, and most of the Fire Department’s Fire boats with more boats to follow. Note: On 4 March 1933 - Radio Communication was established for the first radio communications system between Patrol Vehicles and a Central Dispatcher went into service using the same surplus telephone-radios Commissioner Gaither picked up for the Marine unit nearly 10 years earlier all of this first suggested to the Board of Estimates in September of 1931. 

1933 - 4 March 1933 - The First Radio Communications system between Patrol Vehicles and Headquarters took place while testing between the Northern District [Keswick & 34th] from Central Dispatch, Broadcasting from Police Headquarters. Everything went on the air for the first time at noon on 4 March 1933 - Station WPFH  (Police Broadcasting Station - Spent the morning making the tests using the 19 vehicles that had been equipped with receivers. An Acronym was made for WPFH - Wonderful Protection For Homes- Note Commissioner Gaither first suggested this system to the Board of Estimates in September of 1931

1967 - 21 May 1967 at 8 am, Baltimore Police started a new emergency police number, it started in the Central District where those with an emergency were instructed to dial 222-3333 This number would remain in use until 1 March 1985 when the Baltimore Police officially began its use of the 911 emergency call system. Switching from SA 7-1200 to contact police in the event of an emergency to dialing 222-3333, this new number would last from this date in 1967 until 1 March 1985 when our 911 system was implemented  

1971 - 27 July 1971 - the Community Relations and Youth Divisions were combined into a new division known as the Community Services Division. The creation of this division and the resulting centralization of Administrative functions provides an effective channel of communication between the Police Officer and the community he serves. The major thrust of our expanded Community Services function is aimed at our young people. It is the Division's job to keep clear the channel of communication between officers and the community. The accomplishment of this mission is aided by the division's two Summer Camp operations located at Camp Perkins and Camp Ritchie. Also, our Officer Friendly Program geared for its first full year of operation. 

1972 - 30 August 1972  - To convert the department's mobile communications system to more versatile portable transceivers and to incorporate 450 MHZ channels. The portable transceivers greatly increase police service to the citizenry by reducing response time for emergency calls, by providing a uniform communications system for command personnel to direct personnel in emergency situations, and by promoting a more efficient and safer foot patrol coverage. The incorporation of 450MHZ channels created an even more efficient communications ay1tem by allowing more practical frequency allocations. 

1975 - 19 September 1975, the department in cooperation with the State's Attorney's Office and various taxicab companies became part of the "Civilian Radio Taxi Patrol" in an effort to increase police service to the citizens of Baltimore. If, while on duty, a cab driver, whose vehicle is identified by a "Civilian Radio Taxi Patrol" shield on the right and left rear-quarter panels, obaerve1 anything demanding immediate police attention, he notifies his dispatcher, who in turn calls the Communication Division via a special Hotline. This program is another example of the department's efforts to involve the citizens of Baltimore in a united fight against crime. 

1982 - 11 January 1982 - The department began it's Telephone Reporting system telephone reporting unit, police will not argue with citizens who specifically request police service. According to Dennis Hill, the Police Emergency Number, 222·3333, will remain the same. If a person calls this number and requests a patrol car, one will be sent within an average of six minutes.

1985 - 1 March 1985 - Baltimore City Police officially begins it's 911 emergency call number, a program that was in the works since the first call came in at 11:36 am from someone that had locked their keys their car. Prior to 911 emergency calls went into 222-3333 and non-emergency calls went into 396-1111 

1996 - 2 Oct 1996 - Baltimore becomes the first Police Department in the country to use the Non-Emergency 311 system. We had only started using 911 11 years earlier on 1 March 1985.

P.O. Box 222-3333

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The Baltimore Sun Monday

4 March 1968

1-800-223-2525

In 1985, 911 comes to Baltimore

15 February 1985, Baltimore Sun reports 911 to begin in 1 March 1985

Copyright © 2002 Baltimore City Police History - Ret Det Kenny Driscoll 

 

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Arthur F. Meeks  02/06/07
Capt. James S.M. DiPino 01/27/2007
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Daniel Jonczak  12/10/07
Douglas Coster 05/23/07
Edward S. Bohager  02/04/07
Eugene Price  05/01/07
Francis L. Miller  10/28/07
George B. Mortimer, Jr.  04/11/07
George W. Nitsh  11/21/07
George Watkins  08/06/07
George Williams  12/19/07
Harry Hilnbrand  08/16/07
Jason Smith, Jr.  08/20/07
John Cunningham  04/18/07
John Distefano  12/02/07
John E. Markell  09/11/07
John J. Mcgee  07/18/07
John M. Burford  02/03/07
John P. Matthews  12/28/07
Juanita Cooper  09/22/07
Kenneth J. Morgan  09/21/07
Lawrence J. Malat  04/07/07
Louis A. Brandt  03/17/07
Martin E. Freeburger   03/16/07
Maurice Weisberg  02/21/07
Paul Shrader 12/29/07
Robert Ewing  03/01/07
Robert M. Kuhn  07/26/07
Robert Prescott  09/15/07
Stanley Brown  11/30/07
Thomas Riley, Iii  05/31/07
Vernon Dranbauer, Jr.  03/04/07
Vincent T. Beck   02/19/07
William Delahanty  11/18/07
William Depaola 04/06/07
William G. Bory  04/08/07
William Seibert  09/20/07

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Charles Eyler, Jr.  02/06/06
Charles George, Sr.  09/12/06
Charles H. Lucas  06/08/06
Charles W. Kurth  05/16/06
Claude H. Lamb  04/17/06
Donald E. Barnett  10/08/06
Donald E. Oakjones  12/20/06
Edward Hamilton, Jr.   03/19/06
Edwin L. Harvey  09/17/06
Elmer D. Mccoy  06/22/06
Elmer L. L'ecuyer  02/18/06
Ernest Gardner, Jr.  03/13/06
Ernie D. Meadows  05/02/06
Floyd Rowzee  11/14/06
George Carmichael  02/28/06
George E. Bewley  12/21/06
George Wehn, Sr.  02/22/06
Gharles G. Jones, Jr.  03/22/06
Harry G. Metzbower 03/18/06
Harvey Poseno  09/15/06
Herbert Cline, Sr.  05/29/06
Herbert Dowling   10/13/06
Herbert Ryan  07/07/06
John Ryan  12/23/06
John Streett  05/06/06
John Warren  01/10/06
Joseph B. Lovett, Jr.  12/22/06
Joseph C. Brady  05/02/06
Joseph J.F. Beling, Jr  09/21/06
Joseph L. Palmerino, Sr.  07/30/06
Joseph Sullivan  12/24/06
Leo Barclay   11/29/06
Leonard Byrd  05/19/06
Lloyd Green  01/01/06
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William Hilseberg  03/15/06
William M. Mccallister  04/12/06
William Sekinger, Jr.  07/31/06

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Charles M. Markiewicz  04/14/05
Derek Snyder   03/12/05
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Frank Grunder  06/04/05
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James A. Kelly  01/08/05
James A. Mccloskey 10/11/05
James L. Bowling  01/03/05
James Stevens  02/06/05
John Plantholt 11/17/05
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Joseph H. Longo  07/19/05
Larry Triplett  12/02/05
Naomi Reichelt  09/24/05
Richard Thayer  01/28/05
Robert E. Nagle, Sr.  08/11/05
Rodney George  08/10/05
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Russell France  12/10/05
Thomas Deangelis  08/26/05
William Clayton, Jr.  12/11/05
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William T. Clark  08/15/05
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David A. Lehman  05/01/04
David Popilok  01/29/04
Donald Chase  09/23/04
Donald Reedy  01/11/04
Edmond Helm  02/03/04
Edward G. Johnson  04/30/04
Edward Rock  04/25/04
James Whipp 4/29/15
Elizabeth Cooke 06/12/04
James Watkins  12/04
Jesse H. Benson, Jr.  01/20/04
John D. Evans  01/09/04
John J. Bryl  12/29/04
John R. Mitcheltree  08/09/04
John Swann   03/05/04
Lawrence J. Machovec  08/03/04
Lee Beauchamp 03/20/04
Richard Martin 12/2004
Martin Whitehill  12/26/04
Peggy A Lewis 06/03/04
Richard T. Palmer  01/09/04
Robert M. Leftwich  09/04/04
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Stanley Zawadzki   06/23/04
Thomas Garner  03/11/04
Waldemar S. Bradshaw  01/01/04
Wilbur T. Langville  11/18/04
William Cooper, Sr. 11/16/04
William Surratt  05/19/04
William Treherne  11/18/04

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Charles A. Parscal  11/14/03
Charles C. Owens, Jr.  02/11/03
Chester Evans  12/21/03
Elmer Weidenhoft  08/11/03
Francis Schmitz   09/23/03
Frank Wolchik  02/07/03
George J. Leichling   03/15/03
George Tiburzi   10/29/03
Gerard C. Brandner  09/07/03
James C. Osborne   07/13/03
James E. Billing  02/22/03
John M. Nagel   01/02/03
John Wagner  11/22/03
Julian Robinson  05/20/03
Justus L. Long  12/22/03
Kenneth White   04/30/03
Lawrence Grabowski  09/29/03
Lawrence Tawney 06/20/03
Leon Tomlin   01/15/03
Leonard Broseker  01/31/03
Lester W. Boring  02/05/03
Marshall Davis   08/28/03
Maurice Epple  01/09/03
Michael E. Lee 03/5/03
Norbert Fialkowski  02/11/03
Richard B. Newnam   07/23/03
Richard Wojtek  04/18/03
Robert E. Mccauley  05/14/03
Russel E. Mills  04/24/03
Sophia Dziuba  08/20/03
Theodore Staab 12/14/03
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Thomas Rose  12/27/03
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Charles Haughey  03/29/02
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Donald Stevens  05/03/02
Eugene C. Brukiewa    01/23/02
Floyd R. Lilly, Sr.   08/15/02
Francis Cordwell  10/21/02
Francis Ernst  06/03/02
Francis M. Lingner   11/10/02
Frank A. Stallings  11/11/02
Frank Dressel  12/01/02
Frederick W. Neubauer, Sr.  04/03/02
Furrie Cousins  09/14/02
George Deares  03/25/02
Harry J. Kaplan   02/17/02
James Rollins   02/24/02
James Willis   09/09/02
John W. Brawner,  Jr.  05/09/02
Joseph Dalton   10/15/02
Joseph S. Grossman   02/17/02
Lawrence Weichert   06/18/02
Louis Distefano  03/18/02
Luther Robinson   10/14/02
Mary Stout   10/28/02
Mcneal Brockington, Jr.  03/29/02
Michael Crutchfield  04/28/02
Norman Pomrenke  08/11/02
Robert Armentrout  04/12/02
Robert P. Day  03/27/02
Roy Spruill   08/23/02
Wayne M. Mullaney  07/19/02
William Law, Jr.  05/25/02

2001
Alva H. Boley  09/17/01
Anthony Williams, Sr.  04/17/01
Bernard Sanzone  01/29/01
Bingham Hunt  02/22/01
Bruce H. Patten  04/11/01
Charles Beam   11/11/01
Charles Reuling  11/18/01
Clarence Fetrow  02/18/01
Collis M. Blow  02/19/01
Dale White  08/25/01
Donald Posey  04/09/01
Ethyle Diven  08/19/01
Flan Couch, Jr.  01/16/01
George Wockenfuss  03/16/01
Griffin Dobyns  04/16/01
Harry Harper  07/06/01
Henry Roth  05/28/01
Herman Heidel  12/16/01
Joan Barnard  08/07/01
John D. Perdue   07/16/01
John E. Bunker  03/29/01
John Elton  03/30/01
John P. Boyter, Sr.  07/15/01
John Scales   03/27/01
John W. Morseberger  12/10/01
Paul Wieber  11/22/01
Robert Weimer, Sr.  11/23/01
Ronald Hyde  03/18/01
Ronald Readmond  05/05/01
Thomas Gummer  07/17/01
Walter Gryctz  05/28/01
William Gerbes  05/17/01
William I. Kearney  02/09/01
William J. Pennington  01/04/01
William J.Ennd  10/05/01
William W. Mcmeins, Sr.  06/12/01

2000
Albert Sharpe   02/14/00
Darrell Duggins   05/10/00
Earl Carter  12/21/00
Edwin Emich   03/13/00
Ernest A. Buck  05/16/00
Erwin Berger  11/09/00
Eugene Crane  10/04/00
Francis Donohue  07/16/00
Frank J. Lanahan  06/30/00
Frank Seglinski   01/08/00
Frank Trapasso  11/03/00
Gardner Stanke  10/29/00
George M. Montgomery  05/17/00
Harmar Hiltz  01/30/00
Harold Dent  07/28/00
Henry Herold    04/17/00
James Babka, Jr.  10/29/00
James Cvach   03/25/00
James Smith   02/22/00
John E. Mitchell  3/16/00
John P. Clark  12/05/00
Joseph F. Leyh  09/20/00
Leonard Santivasci  02/22/00
Louis Baronella  12/08/00
Lynn Ayers  02/14/00
Melvin Freeman  10/06/00
Patricia A. Mullen  09/08/00
Patrick Hagerty  02/19/00
Richard Heidecker  12/24/00
Robert Hardesty, Sr.  06/12/00
Robert M. Birney  01/16/00
Thomas Hennessey  04/18/00
Valentine W. Markowski  06/19/00
William T. Kelly   01/19/00

1999
Anthony J. Blaszak  03/28/99
August B. Loetz   04/09/99
Carroll E. Lloyd, Sr.  08/22/99
Carter Spencer  12/07/99
Charles E. Kearney   01/31/99
Charles Podzimek, Jr.   01/27/99
Charles Wenzel  01/18/99
Donald S. Mckay  09/29/99
Edward S. Kalmbacher  08/26/99
Frank Wrzosek  08/27/99
George Eble   02/04/99
George Hasson   03/23/99
James P. Minderlein  02/04/99
James Schultz   12/30/99
Jerome A. Koch  12/29/99
John Canning   04/28/99
John E. Mckinley, Jr.  12/25/99
John J. Mcnally, Jr.  10/01/99
John Wheltle  12/21/99
Joseph Thomas  05/17/99
Michael Venglarik   01/18/99
Phillip Karcesky, Jr.   04/08/99
Phillip Smith   03/08/99
Robert E. Clarke  03/19/99
Robert J, Buettner, Jr.  10/22/99
Robert Zeinog  02/28/99
Thomas Whalen  11/11/99
William F. Smith  10/27/99
William H. Ault  06/14/99

1998
Arthur Dewitt   05/31/98
Carroll Degenhard   01/19/98
Daniel A. Boniarski, Jr.   03/25/98
Daniel Baginski   04/21/98
Donald Higgins   03/07/98
Edward J. Mezewski   02/05/98
Edward Weichert   01/16/98
Edwin L. Lawrence  12/3/98
Francis Earhardt   09/11/98
Frank J. Kunkoski   7/24/98
Frank W. Machovec  09/16/98
George Cook   07/26/98
Henry A. Kachnowich   09/29/98
Howard Schisler  07/30/98
James L. Nugent    05/07/98
James Santmyer    05/20/98
James W. Kline   06/26/98
James Wells   12/23/98
John Carberry   06/13/98
John H. Buenger  12/4/98
John Haag    05/29/98
John Heddinger   07/01/98
John L. Palmere    04/11/98
John M. Murphy   07/04/98
John Simms  07/26/98
John Stocker    04/25/98
John Whitehill   05/13/98
John Younger, Jr.   11/07/98
Joseph Folio, Sr.   05/03/98
Joseph Garrity   12/30/98
Joseph Kaczmarek, Jr.   07/08/98
Kenneth L. Burke   04/12/98
Leroy Dedmon   06/09/98
Maurice Dungan   01/11/98
Michael Rogich   07/14/98
Milton Ballantine  10/26/98
Murrill J. Murray  09/20/98
Oliver Thomas Murdock   11/27/98
Owen Smallwood  09/05/98
Ralph Hudson  11/30/98
Robert C. Ashmun  12/9/98
Scottie D. Mcdonald   09/06/98
Stanley Heddings    03/19/98
Starkie M. Lewis   06/01/98
Thomas Sullivan   12/17/98
Victor Gerczak  12/24/98
Wilbur C. Miller   02/14/98
William Armstrong   08/28/98
William Curry    07/05/98
William Honeycutt   06/98
William Pinkerton, Iii   07/23/98
William Scott  08/09/1998

1997
Arthur L. Butler   10/07/97
Charles Wancowicz   01/22/97
Cleo Hord   01/09/97
Edmund Welsh   07/31/97
Edward Dunn, Sr.  05/02/97
Francis Elder   05/31/97
Francis Ruppert   04/25/97
Herman Earle   02/03/97
Ivory C. Byrd, Sr.  05/19/97
James Grace   09/12/97
James T. Starr   02/08/97
James W. Nelson, Jr.   01/11/97
John E. Brewster   04/17/97
John Scales  08/05/97
Joseph B. Cole  07/20/97
Joseph S. Kimmel   01/24/97
Kenneth Hornberger   04/18/97
Leo Surdyka   03/03/97
Lewis J. O'neal   06/26/97
Marion J. Buchacz  08/04/97
Ned Schleig  05/20/97
Raymond Brill   02/10/97
Raymond Wratchford   10/27/97
Richard Catania  12/09/97
Robert Hall, Sr.   07/03/97
Theodore H. Johnson, Jr.   12/03/97
Thomas A. Haber  06/15/97
Thomas A. Mason  09/19/97
Thomas C. Green  11/19/97
Thomas Shillenn   01/24/97
William Ghant  03/19/97

1996
Arden G. Livingston  04/18/96
Bernard Hartlove  04/25/96
Carlton Frazier, Sr.  12/31/96
Frank Trcka   02/17/96
George Gilbert   02/28/96
Gus A. Drakos   10/21/96
Henry Eckstorm   07/12/96
Henry Zukowski   09/12/96
Howard Stansbury  12/31/96
James B. Mills   02/14/96
James G. Joyce  12/01/96
James Harris   02/13/96
James L. Mcmasters  04/03/96
John Sewell   08/15/1996
Joseph B. Bisson 06/14/96
Joseph J. Jones   01/14/96
Kenneth Price Johnson  10/12/96
Leroy Dillow  12/13/96
Matthew Rudolph  09/21/96
Nelson F. Mckenna   09/06/96
Philip Buratt 06/27/96
Philip Farace   02/29/96
Robert Ritter, Jr.   01/01/96
Stephen Ches, Jr.   03/07/96
Walter D. Stahl 04/30/96
William Craig   09/28/96

1995
Adolph A. Bucci   02/10/95
Albert Rozanski   12/22/95
Bernard Digelman   08/06/95
Carl Reichelt   06/01/95
Douglas Fulton  07/23/95
Earl Potter   04/22/95
Edmund J. Panowicz  02/11/95
Gordon Derrenberger  06/25/95
James Finn   02/25/95
John Grams    08/19/95
John J. Lorme   10/16/95
John P. Donohue  06/24/95
Joseph Engle    10/30/95
Joseph Porter   07/24/95
Joseph Reynolds   03/14/95
Leroy Hayden   08/20/95
Michael Batson 11/01/95
Nicholas Latanishen   04/20/95
Oliver L. Beck   10/24/95
Paul High   01/27/95
Paul Serio, Sr.   05/02/1995
Robert Anderson   11/05/95
Robert B. Leutbecher   12/13/95
Roberta Dehuff   11/29/95
Ronald M. Berends  01/8/95
Stanley L. Kusak  09/30/95
Terry Tiell   07/14/95
Thomas Cassidy  07/05/95
Thomas Sears   03/08/1995
Timothy Patterson   12/02/95
William Derrenberger  07/01/95

1994
Allen Griffin, Jr.  06/27/94
Charles Simonsen  06/08/1994
Connie Opolko, Jr,  11/06/94
Cortez Pickering   09/27/94
Daniel Siegert, Sr.  06/29/94
Earl C. Mathias, Jr.   01/31/94
Edward F. Mccarron   08/04/94
Francis Coll   08/13/94
Francis N. May  12/08/94
Frederick J. Oster   10/14/94
George Schwallenberg  02/07/94
Henry T. Beaudet  05/21/94
James Aquilla  07/11/94
James Uhlik   12/03/94
John B. Smith, Sr.   08/25/94
John Decker  03/24/94
John Downey   11/22/94
John Preis   02/04/94
Joseph Flynn  08/01/94
Joseph Heming   02/03/94
Joseph Jennings   10/10/94
Leon Gray  05/28/94
Leon Paone  05/25/94
Mary Dawson   01/18/94
Michael J. Beere  9/20/94
Nathan R. Lamoreaux   11/29/94
Norbert Wiegard  12/24/94
Norman Weber  06/05/94
Olwine Craig   05/17/94
Paul S. Mcmeekin  12/03/94
Robert L. Leeman   02/01/94
Stanley A. Kalwa  12/19/94
Theodore A. Miller, Sr.   10/07/94
Theodore J, Brown, Jr.   09/26/94
Vincent Kozieracki   08/05/94
Walter R. Mina, Jr.  08/11/94
Wilbur Baldwin   09/06/94
William M. Thieman   04/04/94
William Raivel   11/07/94
William T. Mccarthy  06/12/94

1993
Albert Pessagno   06/09/93
Anthony A. Imbrogulio  12/30/93
Charles Gallagher   11/30/93
Edward F. Blaney   09/22/93
Edward L. Bond, Jr.    02/93
Edward Ruby   12/06/93
Edward Schmaus   04/07/93
Frederick A. Nitch    02/01/93
Gregory A. Panowicz, Sr.   12/30/93
Jacob E. Meyers   04/11/93
James Custis    07/12/1993
James Hallameyer   10/05/93
James Saunders   11/13/93
John Hill   04/14/93
John T. Johnson    03/20/93
Joseph A. Mcmann   04/17/93
Joseph Campanaro   05/28/93
Joseph G. Michael  09/27/93
Joseph S. Knauer  12/23/93
Joseph Tomshack   06/16/93
Leonard Houck    01/93
Lola Pauline Newberger   06/27/93
Marion W. Bennett   01/93
Michael Heaps   08/14/93
Ronald Clark   06/15/93
William L. Burch    01/18/93

1992
Edward Sprucebank   04/10/92
Henry F. Long    11/08/92
Herbert E. Airey   12/04/92
Howard T. Bright   04/02/92
James E. Smith    08/16/92
James Hill  01/92
James Stromberg   03/19/92
John A. Betz, Sr.    04/07/92
John C. Nagle    10/20/92
Joseph B. Mullin   02/25/92
Julius Richburg   01/09/92
Martin Ries, Sr.    01/26/92
Milton Freund, Sr.   07/03/92
Nathaniel Ponder   01/92
Paul Reinsfelder  01/07/92
Richard Arnold   11/03/92
Robert Ross    06/06/92
William Dickerson   10/11/92

1991
Albert Doda  10/25/91
Anthony M. Jarowski   11/04/91
Casmir J. Kielek   11/30/91
Edward Yanchoris  02/03/91
Frank H. Mills, Jr.  05/11/91
Frank Reitterer  01/02/91
George F. Hoyt   11/18/91
George Schnabel  03/18/91
George W. Bowen   11/13/91
Herbert Armstrong 04/09/91
Howard A. Mueller  11/08/91
Hugh Bannon  01/12/91
James D. Buckmaster, Jr.  07/07/91
James W. Lister  07/15/91
Milton N. Bruchey  06/10/91
Raymond Ratcliffe  04/16/91
Richard Ayers  03/11/91
William Hughes  03/18/91
William R. Kackritz  12/14/91

1990
Albert T. Lobos  3/28/90
Carmelo Rizzo  08/09/90
Cecil Patterson  01/20/90
Clarence Roy  07/90
Edmund A. Lesniewski  7/20/90
Edward Tilghman  06/01/90
Elmer Moore, Sr.  08/24/90
Francis R. Kavanaugh  06/10/90
Frederick H. Krueger  11/26/90
George M. Paulus  06/7/90
Gerald Gebhart  07/28/90
John Lingner  06/19/90
John Robertson 12/90
John Schwartz  11/25/90
Leroy D. Kidwell  05/16/90
Melvin Gallion, Sr.  01/17/90
Patrick Fitzpatrick  05/09/90
Paul Dever  06/29/90
Raymond Snyder  07/29/90
Thomas Baranski  05/30/90
William Fogarty  09/22/90
William T. Bell   2/21/90 
William F Kincaid 11/12/90
Edward William Domzalski 1990

1989
Albert Greaver  03/19/89
Albert Wilkens 11/21/89
Calvin K. Mccleese  03/05/89
Charles E. Newberry  03/13/89
Dominic J. Matteo  01/22/89
Donald Hranicka   03/29/89
Edward S. Mccarthy  09/15/89
Frederick Moog  12/20/89
Joseph Wondolowski   10/17/89
Julius Lewandowski  03/15/89
Lamar Schleig  12/17/89
Norman B. Mike   09/08/89
Norman Taylor  05/07/89
Randall D. Mallon  07/27/89
Raymond L. Klein  05/15/89
Waring “Tex” Henderson  06/15/89

1988
Ernest Anacker  04/22/88
John C. Mcmanus   12/10/88
Joseph C. Brown  11/14/88
Salvatore Tiburzi   03/07/88
William C. Mack  05/12/88
Harry Spahn, Sr. 1988

1987
Benedict A. Maciejlzyk  08/17/87
Charles P. Mckenzie  08/01/87
Charles Von Nordeck   06/87
George J. Brutsche, Jr.  03/16/87
John A. Brazil   12/05/87
Leroy Moody  11/23/87
Nicholas Woren   05/87
Paul Zechman   08/87
William W. Mullineaux  03/10/87

1986
Bobby Jones  12/86
Samuel Venturella 5/86
Carl D. Mckinney  12/86
Charles L. Orth  12/03/86
Donald H. Miller  12/86

1985
Robert H. Brown  11/13/85

1984
George J. Markelonis   12/1980
Paul C. Kriewald  05/84

Unknown Date Of Death   
Alan Cross
Alex Banyas
Arthur Harris
Barry Lee
Charles Cookus
Charles Harold
David T. Cookus
Donald Hughes
Edward Eunick
Frank Cicero
Frederick A. Kestler, Jr.
Frederick P. Buckmaster
George W. Miller
Gilbert Schoff
Harry Gross
Henry Edwards
Henry Schmidt
Hugh Danner
James Granger
John R. Jones
Lawrence Hughes
Leroy Williams
Paul Coster
Gilbert Schoff
Reginald Gooden
Richard B. Martin
Robert H. Jenkins
Robert Wirth
Stanley Dziewulski
Vernon Crispens
Vincent Downey
Walter Cody

~1979~ 

Officer Elton Dougherty

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: January 1979 

Officer Harry Horz

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section

Date of death: January 12, 1979 

Lineman Gordon Glatzel

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division

Date of death: January 19, 1979 

Officer William E. Milholland

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: February 18, 1979 

Officer John H. Spencer

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: March 2, 1979 

Sergeant Joseph G. Coram

Formerly Assigned: N/A

Date of death: March 3, 1979 

Officer Joseph K. Carey

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: March 1979 

Officer John Cossentino

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit

Date of death: April 8, 1979 

Sergeant Wilbert Sudmeier

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: April 16, 1979 

Officer Edwin C. Carter

Formerly Assigned: Applicant Investigation

Date of death: May 25, 1979 

Officer Pearce Canby

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: June 2, 1979 

Officer Otto Greul

Formerly Assigned Traffic Division:

Date of death: June 19, 1979 

Officer Emory B. Warfield

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: June 25, 1979 

Sergeant Luther K. Hartman

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: June 25, 1979 

Officer John P. Dougherty

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: June 27, 1979 

Officer Walter N. Faulkner, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: July 10, 1979 

Officer John Mox

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: July 26, 1979 

Officer Eugene Johnson

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: August 1, 1979 

Officer Daniel Carroll

Community Services Division

Date of death: August 13, 1979 

Officer Leo Raymond Kowalewski

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: August 15, 1979 

Officer William D. Albers

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Line of Duty Death: August 19, 1979 

Officer William J. Biglen

Formerly Assigned: Chief of Patrol’s Office

Date of death: September 1, 1979 

Officer Stephen Czapski

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District

Date of death: September 6, 1979 

Officer Harry Magaha

Formerly Assigned: Printing Unit

Date of death: September 13, 1979 

Sergeant Anthony Wayekunas

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District

Date of death: September 14, 1979 

Lieutenant Carlton H. Manuel

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D.

Date of death: August 28,1979 

Officer Herman Talbot

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: September 19, 1979 

Officer Franklin J. (Barney) Weaver

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: September 27, 1979 

Officer John P. Scott

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: September 27, 1979 

Officer Charles L. Gatch

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division

Date of death: October 8, 1979 

Officer Phillip L. Gowl

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: October 23, 1979 

Officer Charles F. Rout, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: western District

Date of death: October 31, 1979 

~1978~ 

Head Clerk Agatha Wilburn

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division

Date of death: January 14, 1978 

Captain Joseph A. Baroch

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: January 17, 1978 

Officer Milton Arczynski

Formerly Assigned: Chief of Patrol’s Office

Date of death: January 22, 1978 

Officer John T. Childs

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division

Date of death: February 7, 1978 

Chauffeur John M. Sibol

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: February 15, 1978 

Officer Edgar J. Rumpf

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Line of Duty Death: February 16, 1978 

Officer Howard W. Silk

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: February 17, 1978 

Officer Clarence Stewart

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: February 21, 1978 

Detective Charles H. Scroggs

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Auto Theft

Date of death: February 23, 1978 

Lieutenant Clarence Wehage

Formerly Assigned: Old Northeast District

Date of death: February 23, 1978 

Officer Joseph J. Palmere, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit

Date of death: March 3, 1978 

Officer James C. Shipley

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: April 1978 

Officer Frederick H. Beafeld

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: April 4, 1978 

Officer Joseph A. Herget

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: April 7, 1978 

Sergeant Robert J. Barlow

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: April 23, 1978 

Officer Harry E. Bichy

Formerly Assigned: Southern District/Communications Division

Date of death: May 9, 1978 

Crossing Guard Thelma Willey

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: May 31, 1978 

Officer Donald Jarrett

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: June 7, 1978 

Officer Joseph A. Meehan

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic

Date of death: June 10, 1978 

Officer Bernard A. Zilinski

Formerly Assigned: E & T

Date of death: June 10, 1978 

Sergeant Stanley Nicodem

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: June 19, 1978 

Officer Frederick Fitzberger

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District

Date of death: July 6, 1978 

Computer Operator Ernestine Williams

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division

Date of death: July 6, 1978 

Lieutenant Nickolas Cortezl

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: July 9, 1978 

Sergeant Albert Fortenbaugh

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: August 2, 1978 

Officer Richard Jones

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: August 5, 1978 

Sergeant Robert Weaver

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Homicide

Date of death: August 7, 1978 

Sergeant Earl Staples

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: August 9, 1978 

Officer William E. Harrison

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit

Date of death: August 10, 1978 

Officer Charles M. Smith

Formerly Assigned: Purchasing Supply Room

Date of death: September 2, 1978 

Officer Henry F. Wenger

Formerly Assigned: HQ.

Date of death: September 16, 1978 

Lieutenant Stephen Plowman

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: September 21, 1978 

Lieutenant Andrew A. Aldon

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: September 26, 1978 

Officer William Ashford

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: October 3, 1978 

Officer Charles Rada

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: October 4, 1978 

Sergeant John W. McKenna

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: October 16, 1978 

Officer Dennis Elkins

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: October 24, 1978 

Officer Nelson F. Bell

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Line of Duty Death: October 27, 1978 

Officer Frank J. Zaruba

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: November 1, 1978 

Clerk Joseph W. Welzant

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: November 6, 1978 

Sergeant Daniel A. Boniarski

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: November 6, 1978 

Sergeant William G. Windham

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: November 16, 1978 

Officer William F. Weiss

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: November 18, 1978 

Officer Walter Kraska

Formerly Assigned: E.C.U.

Date of death: November 21, 1978 

Officer John Golebieski

Formerly Assigned: Tactical/Building Security

Date of death: November 22, 1978 

Officer Henry V. Mitchem

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: November 22, 1978 

~1977~ 

Officer Gerald Junk

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: January 9, 1977 

Inspector Julian I. Forrest

Formerly Assigned: HQ.

Date of death: January 26, 1977 

Officer William Fisher

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: February 2, 1977 

Sergeant Melvin Montgomery

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: February 5, 1977 

Officer Charles Jones

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: February 6, 1977 

Officer Benjamin Stickell

Formerly Assigned: Northeast Annex

Date of death: February 6, 1977 

Sergeant Herman Zaras

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District

Date of death: February 12, 1977 

Officer Dennis Sweren

Formerly Assigned: Traffic February 12, 1977

Date of death: February 12, 1977 

Officer Henry J. Yockel

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: February 17, 1977 

Sergeant Joseph H. Mcanally

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street

Date of death: February 19, 1977 

Officer Harry J. Silk

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: February 19, 1977 

Sergeant James W. DeVoe

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: February 24, 1977 

Officer John J. Zeiler

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: February 25, 1977 

Sergeant Maurice Clifton

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: March 28, 1977 

Officer John J. Lemmon

Formerly Assigned: Communication Division

Date of death: April 4, 1977 

Officer Edward Luers

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: April 7, 1977 

Sergeant Louis Tirabassi

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: April 16, 1977 

Sergeant Harry L. Powers

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: April 21, 1977 

Lieutenant Francis M. Gutierrez

Formerly Assigned: Property Division

Date of death: April 26, 1977 

Charwoman Henrietta McNeir

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: May 11, 1977 

Officer Robert E. Crispens

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division

Date of death: May 11, 1977 

Matron Marion Jenkins

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street

Date of death: May 12, 1977 

Officer Thomas Garvey

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: May 13, 1977 

Lieutenant George Courtney

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: May 16, 1977 

Chauffeur Edward G. Hubbard

Formerly Assigned: Property Division

Date of death: May 22, 1977 

Lieutenant Leo F. Duffy

Formerly Assigned: B of I

Date of death: May 26, 1977 

Emergency Call Clerk Gussie Woodard

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division

Date of death: June 27, 1977 

Officer John Vernon Alford

Formerly Assigned: Evidence Control Unit

Date of death: July 25, 1977 

Officer Thomas M. Reese

Formerly Assigned: Northwest Annex

Date of death: July 25, 1977 

Detective Lester N. Messner

Formerly Assigned: B of I

Date of death: August 5, 1977 

Officer William B. Huster

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: August 14, 1977 

Officer John J. Young

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: August 24, 1977 

Sergeant Kasper L. Utz

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: September 9, 1977 

Officer Edo Liberatore

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: September 24, 1977 

Officer George W. Walper

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: October 5, 1977 

Officer Richard Ellwood, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: October 5, 1977 

Officer Albert Ehmling

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: October 15, 1977 

Officer James A. Myers

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: October 18, 1977 

Captain J. Gould Rollins

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: November 4, 1977 

Major Norman Schleigh

Formerly Assigned: E & T

Date of death: November 5, 1977 

Crossing Guard Lana Lee Milland

Formerly Assigned: N/A

Date of death: November 7, 1977 

Captain Frederick Dunn

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division

Date of death: November 20, 1977 

Senior Clerk Typist Robert E. Tevis

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: November 16, 1977 

Officer Louis Danna

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: December 11, 1977 

Officer Robert J. Schwinn

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: December 27, 1977 

~1976~ 

Officer Raymond A. Sylvester 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 17, 1976 

Officer Harold R. Weitzman 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: January 20, 1976 

Officer Paul Centuelli 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: February 3, 1976 

Officer Norman Kelly 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: February 15, 1976 

Officer Joseph Pocta 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 15, 1976 

Officer Elwood Bozman 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: February 26, 1976 

Officer Harold Keil 

Formerly Assigned: Old Police Services Desk 

Date of death: February 26, 1976 

Officer William M. Daily 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 7, 1976 

Officer William H. Shook 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: March 12, 1976 

Officer Leonard Blum 

Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 13, 1976 

Officer William A. Pich 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: April 6, 1976 

Officer Sterling G. Chance 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: April 14, 1976 

Officer Jimmy D. Halcomb 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Line of Duty Death: April 16, 1976 

Lieutenant Frank Schmidt 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: April 17, 1976 

Lieutenant Paul Aires 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 28, 1976 

Sergeant Maurice F. Gorman 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 28, 1976 

Lieutenant James E. Mason 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street 

Date of death: May 10, 1976 

Crossing Guard Margaret Scheidt 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: May 24, 1976 

Officer Charles W. Carter 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: June 4, 1976 

Sergeant Howard E. Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 4, 1976 

Officer Marion Melvin Morawski 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: June 16, 1976 

Officer Harry R. Randle 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: June 20, 1976 

Officer William Edward Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Applicant Investigation Unit 

Date of death: June 25, 1976 

Sergeant Joseph Litz 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: July 20, 1976 

Officer Walter Stachowski 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: July 25, 1976 

Officer Francis M. Quinn, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: July 26, 1976 

Officer Sherman Lee Pruit 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division/Mounted 

Date of death: August 1, 1976 

Sergeant Frank Siemanski 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: August 1, 1976 

Officer Elmer Hefner 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Traffic Division 

Date of death: August 9, 1976 

Clerk Rosalie Beal 

Formerly Assigned Central Records Division: 

Date of death: August 15, 1976 

Officer Charles Block 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: August 19, 1976 

Press Operator Thomas T. Bragg 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: August 27, 1976 

Sergeant William B. Clayton 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 8, 1976 

Officer Frederick C. Wilson, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: I.S.D/Traffic 

Date of death: October 8, 1976 

Officer C.J. Friers 

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District 

Date of death: October 9, 1976 

Officer Henry J. Hagey, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Community Services 

Date of death: October 18, 1976 

Officer William J. Carr 

Formerly Assigned: Identification Section 

Date of death: October 21, 1976 

Captain Vincent Giardina 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: October 30, 1976 

Lieutenant Dorsey Baldwin 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District/Tactical 

Date of death: November 12, 1976 

Officer George Goetzke 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 25, 1976 

Officer Walter F. Welsh 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street 

Date of death: November 23, 1976 

Officer George J. Sykes 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 10, 1976 

Sergeant Frank Bianca 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 21, 1976 

~1975~ 

Officer Alfred Gardner 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street/Youth Division 

Date of death: January 8, 1975 

Officer Vincent L. Simmons, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Assistant to Commissioner Hepburn 

Date of death: January 18, 1975 

Sergeant William L. Wortman 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 20, 1975 

Emergency Call Clerk Frances Sheets 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 21, 1975 

Sergeant Earl Cosden 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 22, 1975 

Sergeant Robert E. Johnson 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: February 23, 1975 

Officer Harry Schofield 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division/Mounted 

Date of death: February 23, 1975 

Officer Herbert C. Glover 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 28, 1975 

Officer Anselm A. Konitzer 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 6, 1975 

Sergeant Charles T. Ploch 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: March 10, 1975 

Officer John E. Sinnott 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 15, 1975 

Laborer Saverio Baglinoni 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Motor Section 

Date of death: April 3, 1975 

Officer Thomas F. Schamburg 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: April 7, 1975 

Officer Albert W. Buddenbohn 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 11, 1975 

Sergeant Murrel Starkey 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 24, 1975 

Detective Charles Fischbach 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Homicide 

Date of death: May 6, 1975 

Officer Tracey Bedsworth 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Division 

Date of death: May 11, 1975 

Captain Leroy J. Kues 

Formerly Assigned: Services Division 

Date of death: May 14, 1975 

Officer Frank Wolski 

Assigned: Central District  

Date of death: May 29, 1975 

Crossing Guard Imma E. Lechliter (Scott) 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: June 1, 1975 

Officer Burnhardt Dungan 

Formerly Assigned: Tactical/K9 

Date of death: June 2, 1975 

Officer Jerome E. Kline 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: June 6, 1975 

Officer Edward Stower 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Rackets Division 

Date of death: June 8, 1975 

Officer Howard Mulligan 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 19, 1975 

Administrative Assistant Alice G. Donegan 

Formerly Assigned: Police Commissioner’s Office 

Date of death: July 5, 1975 

Officer William Hawkins 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: July 12, 1975 

Paul A. Karaskavicz (Civilian) 

Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: July 15, 1975 

Officer Andrew H. Fischer 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: July 15, 1975 

Captain Gordon G. Gaeng 

Formerly Assigned: Office of Chief Of Patrol 

Date of death: July 24, 1975 

Lieutenant William J. Flynn 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./B of I 

Date of death: August 4, 1975 

Sergeant William G. Adams 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: August 15, 1975 

Officer James J. Hagen, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: August 23, 1975 

Officer John B. Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 23, 1975 

Officer Charles Neill 

Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 25, 1975 

Emergency Call Clerk John E. Holthaus 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: August 26, 1975 

Sergeant Joseph M. Fisher 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: August 27, 1975 

Officer Claude F. Waddill 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: September 2, 1975 

Dr. Louis J. Kolodner 

Assigned: Medical Section 

Date of death: September 9, 1975 

Sergeant Edward J. Cook 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: September 11, 1975 

Sergeant John P. Butner 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 12, 1975 

Officer Edward S. Sherman 

Assigned: Southwest District 

Line of Duty Death: September 13, 1975 

Officer Alex J. McDonald 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 15, 1975 

Clerk Jeanette Fox 

Formerly Assigned: Motor Pool 

Date of death: September 21, 1975 

Supervisor William J. Harvey 

Formerly Assigned: Fiscal Affairs 

Date of death: October 1, 1975 

Officer Joseph W. Brooks, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Crime Lab 

Date of death: October 8, 1975 

Sergeant Henry O. Grimm  

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: October 12, 1975 

Sergeant August F. Buettner 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 14, 1975 

Lieutenant John R. Padgett 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: October 18, 1975 

Officer John Gray 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: October 23, 1975 

Sergeant Lester E. Stein 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: November 6, 1975 

Sergeant John M. Dippel 

Formerly Assigned: Old Police Services Desk 

Date of death: December 8, 1975 

Officer Oliver Lowman 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 19, 1975 

~1974~ 

Officer Walter H. Heiderman 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 1, 1974 

Officer Henry Mautner 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: January 8, 1974 

Officer John F. Kapraun 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: March 21, 1974 

Sergeant Henry P Pleiss 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic 

Date of death: April 2, 1974 

Lieutenant Robert Cohen 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: March 11, 1974 

Officer Frank W. Whitby 

Assigned: Eastern District 

Line of Duty Death May 5, 1974 

Sergeant William W. Rhodes 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: May 9, 1974 

Officer John Scheurman 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: May 15, 1974 

Officer John A. Minar 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 18, 1974 

Officer Martin Wunder 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: May 31, 1974 

Lieutenant Edward A. Shanahan 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: June 3, 1974 

Officer John F. Hesson 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: June 10, 1974 

Officer John Thierauf 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: June 28, 1974 

Detective James Batterden 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: July 10, 1974 

Officer Hiram J. Carson 

Formerly Assigned: July 20, 1974 

Date of death: July 20, 1974 

Sergeant Frank J. Witt 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: July 23, 1974 

Sergeant Kenneth V. O’Connor 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: July 29, 1974 

Lieutenant Otis Bradley 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: July 30, 1974 

Detective Sergeant Frank W. Grunder 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./ Escape & Apprehension 

Line of Duty Death: August 1, 1974 

Officer Milton Spell 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Line of Duty Death: August 15, 1974 

Civilian Employee William Bandell 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Old Frederick St. Repair 

Date of death: August 17, 1974 

Captain Lawrence Kerr 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: August 18, 1974 

Officer John C. Mohr 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 26, 1974 

Crossing Guard Gloria B. Amy 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 27, 1974 

Sergeant Carroll R. Lowman 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 28, 1974 

Lieutenant William L. Link 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 30, 1974 

Officer Peter T. Garvin 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 31, 1974 

Lieutenant George A. Hayward 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 6, 1974 

Captain Aloysius Winters 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: September 24, 1974 

Officer Augustus A. Sader 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 23, 1974 

Sergeant Francis Jasinski 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1974 

Detective Sam Smith 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Fugitive 

Date of death: October 25, 1974 

Officer William L. Ray 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: November 14, 1974 

Sergeant James Burlage 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: November 24, 1974 

Sergeant James Verderamo 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: November 24, 1974 

Officer George W. Gardner 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 10, 1974 

Officer Martin J. Greiner 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Line of Duty Death: December 10, 1974 

Officer John H. Campbell 

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section 

Date of death: December 15, 1974 

Officer Bernard J. Jenkins 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: December 16, 1974 

Lieutenant Rudolph C.R. Wilkins 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 16, 1974 

Officer Charles B. Walas 

Formerly Assigned: Tactical/Marine Unit 

Date of death: December 19, 1974 

Officer McKinnley J. Johnson 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Auto Service Attendant 

Date of death: December 25, 1974 

Officer George Rembold  

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: December 27, 1974 

~ 1973~ 

Officer George D. Blaney 

Formerly Assigned: Maintenance Department 

Date of death: January 1, 1973 

Officer Francis R. Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: January 19, 1973 

Officer Richard J. Kaniecki 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: January 30, 1973 

Officer Edwin Yukas 

Formerly Assigned: Auto-Garage Repair 

Date of death: February 16, 1973 

Officer Edward J. Wolker 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: March 3, 1973 

Officer Robert Maynard Hurley 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: March 28, 1973 

Sergeant Joseph C. Hajek 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: March 31, 1973 

Officer William A. Conner 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: April 2, 1973 

Officer Norman Frederick Buchman 

Assigned: Northwest District 

Line of Duty Death: April 6, 1973 

Meter Maid Augusta M. Myers 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: April 9, 1973 

Officer Vernon D. Nicklas 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: April 13, 1973 

Officer Robert W. Gain 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 23, 1973 

Officer Paul Vernon Garrett 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 23, 1973 

Officer Raymond C. Hoffman 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: May 29, 1973 

Officer William J. Ellinghaus 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: May 30, 1973 

Detective Raymond J. Novak 

Formerly Assigned: Central District/Pawn Shop Unit 

Date of death: May 31, 1973 

Detective Donald Raley 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Homicide Unit 

Date of death: June 2, 1973 

Officer Harry J Bayne 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 16, 1973 

Officer James M. Rawlings 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: June 18, 1973 

Officer William H. Johnson 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: June 30, 1973 

Sergeant Elmer T. Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Police Commissioner’s Office 

Date of death: July 8, 1973 

Officer William N Karn 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 14, 1973 

Sergeant Raymond A. Holden 

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section 

Date of death: July 19, 1973 

Officer Edwin Savage 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: July 19, 1973 

Officer John McCormick 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: July 29, 1973 

Officer George A. Harvey 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: July 31, 1973 

Officer John E. Robertson 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 4, 1973 

Crossing Guard Norma V. Capers 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 11, 1973 

Officer George T. Smith 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 18, 1973 

Officer Charles Adams 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 31, 1973 

Sergeant Daniel H. Crowley 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest Annex 

Date of death: September 3, 1973 

Officer George P. Phebus 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: September 9, 1973 

Officer John N. Ruth 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: September 10, 1973 

Officer John McDonald 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Maintenance Division 

Date of death: September 20, 1973 

Officer William D. Sparrow 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: September 26, 1973 

Sergeant Henry W. Cochran 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 27, 1973 

Sergeant George Schlipper 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: October 14, 1973 

Sergeant Charles Alexander 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1973 

Sergeant Charles Gerhold 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit 

Date of death: October 31, 1973 

Officer Paul R. Oronson, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section 

Date of death: November 16, 1973 

Administrative Assistant Charles Rill 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District  

Date of death: November 18, 1973 

Officer John Lynch 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District  

Date of death: November 18, 1973 

Sergeant Thomas H.E. Riley 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: November 24, 1973 

Clerk Frederick Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Fiscal Affairs 

Date of death: November 24, 1973 

Chief Clerk William Swinson 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: November 26, 1973 

Detective Wiley M. Owens, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: I.S.D. 

Date of death: December 1, 1973 

Officer Joseph Wisbeck 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: December 15, 1973 

Officer Luther E. Jones 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: December 19, 1973 

Officer Virgil H. Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 19, 1973 

Officer Leroy Crosland 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 23, 1973 

Sergeant William J. Logue 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: December 26, 1973 

~1972~ 

Officer Edward P. Kirby 

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District 

Date of death: January 12, 1972 

Emergency Call Clerk Norman F. Stever 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: January 15, 1972 

Lieutenant Henry J. Knecht 

Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 5, 1972 

Chauffeur Frank H. Warns 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: February 6, 1972 

Officer Wilbur T. Holt 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: February 15, 1972 

Officer Howard B. Young 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: January 21, 1972 

Officer Joseph C. O’Melia 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: February 23, 1972 

Sergeant Howard J. Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 29, 1972 

Officer John Uhler 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 1, 1972 

Sergeant Daniel Will 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: March 6, 1972 

Crossing Guard Emmyl L. Wasserman 

Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 7, 1972 

Officer Bernard J. Brooks 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: March 24, 1972 

Lieutenant Edward J. Zeck 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: April 2, 1972 

Sergeant Milton A. Kniese 

Formerly Assigned:  

Date of death: April 3, 1972 

Lieutenant Otto A. Urban 

Formerly Assigned: Education & Training Division 

Date of death: May 12, 1972 

Officer Joseph Thompson 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: May 21, 1972 

Officer Frank V. Janos 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 22, 1972 

Officer Andrew W. Adamski 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: May 23, 1972 

Officer William Z. Gray 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: May 23, 1972 

Officer Frank Novotny 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: June 2, 1972 

Officer Jesssie Hood 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: June 15, 1972 

Officer Bernard Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: August 3, 1972 

Emergency Call Clerk William Urban 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: August 6, 1972 

Chief Inspector Oscar L. Lusby 

Formerly Assigned: HQ. 

Date of death: August 10, 1972 

Officer John J. Wiley 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 11, 1972 

Officer Frederick Krueger 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 26, 1972 

Lieutenant William J. Klump 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: September 28, 1972 

Officer Ellwood L. Brown 

Formerly Assigned: Applicant Investigation Division 

Date of death: September 29, 1972 

Officer Christian Brix 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: October 8, 1972 

Crossing Guard Dolly Andrews 

Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: October 17, 1972 

Supervisor Of Purchases Joseph Piller 

Formerly Assigned: Fiscal Affairs Division 

Date of death: November 11, 1972 

Sergeant Louis J. Mitchell 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: November 17, 1972 

Officer John H. Schmitt 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 1, 1972 

Officer Edward J. Budacz 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 6, 1972 

Sergeant Philip Jachelski 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Enforcement 

Date of death: December 9, 1972 

Officer William D. Kelly 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 18, 1972 

Officer Harry W. Hinkle 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 21, 1972 

Officer Andrew Valenza 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: December 28, 1972 

~1971~ 

Sergeant Charles Trainor 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Investigation 

Date of death: January 18, 1971 

Officer George W. Flynn 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: February 5, 1971 

Officer William O. Shaffrey 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 21, 1971 

Sergeant Edward Langletti 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: February 22, 1971 

Officer Charles Faulkner 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 3, 1971 

Detective Joseph J. Mantegna 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: March 13, 1971 

Sergeant Arthur J. Nelson 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: March 14, 1971 

Officer Wilbert O. Rotten 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division  

Date of death: March 2, 1971 

Officer William F. Schneeman 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 18, 1971 

Sergeant Frank J. Machovec 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 26, 1971 

Sergeant Joseph M. Carney 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 1, 1971 

Officer William F. Monaghan 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic 

Date of death: May 2, 1971 

Officer Samuel Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District  

Date of death: May 6, 1971 

Dr. Edward A Flanigan 

Formerly Assigned: Medical Section District 1 

Date of death: May 11, 1971 

Officer William R. Hightower 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: May 13, 1971 

Sergeant Anthony Kircher 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: May 17, 1971 

Detective Charles W. Mulligan 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Fugitive 

Date of death: May 23, 1971 

Officer William J. Gill 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: May 25, 1971 

Chauffeur Raymond A. Slonaker 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: May 26, 1971 

K-9 Dog "Shane" 

Assigned: K9 Unit/Handler Off. David Stuller 

Line of Duty Death: June 1971 

Lieutenant Elvin H. Smedberg 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: June 1, 1971 

Officer Carl Perteson 

Assigned: Central District  

Line of Duty Death June 1, 1971 

Officer Robert Moscirella 

Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 9, 1971 

Officer George E. Brooks 

Formerly Assigned: Central district 

Date of death: June 17, 1971 

Officer Henry Plunkett 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: June 19, 1971 

Officer Joseph M. Bruchey 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: July 6, 1971 

Officer Eric Rodgers 

Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: July 6, 1971 

Officer Walter W. Witkowski 

Formerly Assigned: Old Pine Street 

Date of death: July 8, 1971 

Officer John J. Blume 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 11, 1971 

Officer Edwin J. Humphreys 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 15, 1971 

Dr. E. Irvin Neserke (Veterinarian) 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted 

Date of death: July 15, 1971 

Officer Emil Elderskirch 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: July 17, 1971 

Officer Henry G. Scales 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: July 24, 1971 

Officer Leo J. Hess 

Formerly Assigned: Central District  

Date of death: July 28, 1971 

Lieutenant Martin Webb 

Assigned: Southern District 

Line of Duty Death August 3, 1971 

Officer Ferdinard Struckrath 

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section 

Date of death: August 8, 1971 

Sergeant George Joseph Louis, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic 

Date of death: August 9, 1971 

Officer Thomas E. Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: August 10, 1971 

Sergeant Joseph G. Schrami 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 16, 1971 

Lieutenant Joseph J. Byrne 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: August 19, 1971  

Sergeant John McGinnis 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: September 2, 1971 

Officer Leo Adam Fischer 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: September 4,1971 

Detective Edgar Sullers, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: September 1971 

Officer Andrew Moynihan 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 22, 1971 

Officer Thomas F. Steinaker 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: September 23, 1971 

Sergeant Thomas F. Ford 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: October 4, 1971 

Officer Charles A. Heim 

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District 

Date of death: October 5, 1971 

Officer Christian C. Schneblen 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 9, 1971 

Detective Sergeant James A. Downs 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: October 10, 1971 

Officer Charles Schlotthober 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: October 12, 1971 

Officer Thomas Irvin, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: October 12, 1971 

Officer John E. Herold 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: October 12, 1971 

Sergeant Stanton J. Grace 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: October 26, 1971 

Officer Bryan J. Warner 

Assigned: Tactical Section  

Date of death: November 11, 1971 

Officer Otto Boise 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: November 11, 1971 

Officer Ernest Langner 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: December 17, 1971 

Officer Louis Martindale 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 31, 1971 

~1970~ 

Sergeant John P. Stricker 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: January 1, 1970 

Officer Peter Saweck 

Formerly Assigned: Old Eastern District 

Date of death: January 8, 1970 

Officer George Goyert 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: January 12, 1970 

Officer Raymond Y. Mitchell 

Formerly Assigned: Old Eastern District 

Date of death: January 15, 1970 

Lieutenant Stanley Oster 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: January 17, 1970 

Officer Louis Hranicka 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 18, 1970 

Officer George Frederick Heim 

Assigned: Southeast District 

Line of Duty Death: January 16, 1970 

Officer Michael J. Hoban 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: January 22, 1970 

Officer Chester W. Burris 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 22, 1970 

Detective Frank J. Vitak 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: January 25, 1970 

Officer Joseph M. Huber 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: February 5, 1970 

Officer Thomas L. Roche 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: February 12, 1970 

Officer Patrick M. Donohoe 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: March 1, 1970 

Officer Henry G. Spruill 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: March 8, 1970 

Charwoman Jennie Rada 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 6, 1970 

Officer Martin J. Hanna, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: March 14, 1970 

Officer Henry Mickey 

Assigned: Central District 

Line of Duty Death: March 24, 1970 

Officer William Middleton 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 4, 1970 

Lieutenant Thomas L. Barranger 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death April 4, 1970 

Officer William Klosinski 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: April 7, 1970 

Officer August Nellies 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death April 10, 1970 

Captain George F. Klemmick 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. Homicide 

Date of death: April 17, 1970 

Officer John A. Hoh 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: April 16, 1970 

Officer Donald Sager 

Assigned: Central District 

Line of Duty Death: April 24, 1970 

Officer Carl H. Knepper 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: May 12, 1970 

Officer Thomas Cremin 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: May 12, 1970 

Sergeant John L. Kellermann, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: May 30, 1970 

Officer Benjamin Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 1, 1970 

Officer Edward J. Chapness 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 1, 1970 

Officer Marcus J. Corcoran 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 1, 1970 

Officer Joseph Nawrozki, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 3, 1970 

Officer Charles F. Bardroff 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: June 10, 1970 

Officer George H. Schnitzlein 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 17, 1970 

Sergeant Robert M. MacReynolds 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: June 21, 1970 

Lieutenant George G. Bryan 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. Homicide Unit 

Date of death: July 1, 1970 

Officer Edward O. Racey 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 5, 1970 

Sergeant Anthony J. Lewandowski 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: July 14, 1970 

School Crossing Guard Theresa Marsh Burn 

Assigned: Central District 

Date Of death: July 17, 1970 

Officer Frank J. Kunkel 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 23, 1970 

Officer Robert G. Correa 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 11, 1970 

Sergeant William L. Stone, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: August 28, 1970 

School Crossing Guard Audrey L. R. Weaver 

Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: September 2, 1970 

Officer John L. Clarke 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 16, 1970 

Sergeant William J. Keogh, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: N/A 

Date of death: September 21, 1970 

Sergeant Frank J. Wesolowski 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 24, 1970 

Officer Elmer Schmidt 

Formerly Assigned: A.I.D. & Communications Division 

Date of death: September 26, 1970 

Officer Charles H. Lambdin 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: September 26, 1970 

Officer Mardell E. Struss 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street Station 

Date of death: September 28, 1970 

Sergeant John C. White 

Formerly Assigned:  

Date of death: October 5, 1970 

Officer James Reese 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 5, 1970 

Officer Frank L. Duffy, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street Station 

Date of death: October 21, 1970 

Officer Paul E. Moran, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1970 

Store Supervisor Edwin Craig Ward 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1970 

Officer Milton O. Gardner 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: October 31, 1970 

Officer John Kapraun 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: October 31, 1970 

Officer Emory A. Koch 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: November 11, 1970 

Officer Willard Pyle 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: November 11, 1970 

Officer Joseph J. Wise 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: November 28, 1970 

Officer John Joseph Wess 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: December 5, 1970 

Lieutenant Bernard J. Deinlein 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 19, 1970 

Detective Sergeant Amos J. Issac 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. Property 

Date of death: December 19, 1970 

Sergeant Edward R. Leland 

Formerly Assigned: Education & Training Division 

Date of death: December 23, 1970 

Officer Ernest R. Harris 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: December 24, 1970 

Officer George William Rupprecht 

Formerly Assigned: Engineering & Traffic Division 

Date of death: December 26, 1970 

Sergeant Albert V. Kendrick 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: December 26, 1970 

~1969~ 

Officer Claude M. Stafford 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: December 25, 1969 

~1968~ 

Detective Julius Merkousko 

Formerly Assigned: CID 

Date of death: October 6, 1968 

Sergeant Robert E. Brathuhn 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: October 10, 1968 

~1963~ 

Officer Elmer W. Weber 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: September 10, 1963 

"Medal of Honor Recipient" 

~1959~ 

Officer Elvy Jett Ruby 

Appointed: March 28, 1919 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Retired: Nov 26, 1953 

Date of death: Jan 22, 1959 

~1956~ 

Officer Edward Poist 

Formerly Assigned: 

Date of death: September 16, 1956 

~1955~ 

Clarence Thomas Lilly - 12 October 1955

~1939~ 

Lieutenant John R. Stein 

Formerly Assigned: N/A 

Date of death: August 11, 1939 

~1932~ 

Officer Frank J. Vavra 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: February 17, 1932 

~ 1922 ~ 

Officer Michael S. Brooks 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death October 20, 1922 

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