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Important Dates in Police History:
1902: Fingerprinting is first used in the United States.
1910: Alice Stebbin Wells of the Lost Angeles Police Department becomes the first female police officer with arrest powers.
1914: The Berkeley (CA) Police Department becomes the country's first agency to have all patrol officers using automobiles.
1915: The first year in the United States history that more than 100 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty.
1916: Anna Hart, a jail matron for the Hamilton County (OH) Sheriff's Office, becomes the first female law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty.
October 3, 1929: Eight correctional officers are killed at a Colorado prison -- the most ever to die in one incident at a correctional institution.
1932-1934: "Bonnie and Clyde" and their gang murder 10 law enforcement officers, more than any other criminals.
1949: The last year in United States history in which fewer than 100 police officers were killed in the line of duty.
June 25, 1952: Pulaski County (OH) Night Marshal Dotson "Pop" Sutton, 80, becomes the oldest officer to die in the line of duty.
November 22, 1963: Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit is shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy.
September 1971: Seven correctional officers were killed during a prison riot at the Attica State Prison in upstate New York.
1974: Police start wearing soft body armor to protect themselves against handgun assaults.
1974: The single deadliest year in law enforcement history, with 273 officers killed. |