Law Enforcement Agencies of Wisconsin - Municipal Police Departments of Wisconsin, State Law Enforcement Agencies of Wisconsin (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Municipal Police Departments of Wisconsin, State Law Enforcement Agencies of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Police Department, List of Law Enforcement Agencies in Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Patrol, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison Police Department, Green Bay Police Department. Excerpt: The Milwaukee Police Department is the police department that protects the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The MPD has a contingent of about 2,000 sworn officers when at full strength. Edward Flynn is the current Chief of Police. MPD was founded in 1855. At the time when Milwaukee had an extremely high crime rate, fueled by local gangs, mobs, thieves and robbers. Milwaukee was originally served by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's office, which became increasingly unable to provide adequate enforcement to the growing city. With burgeoning crime rates, citizens enacted an ordinance creating the Milwaukee Police Department. Milwaukee's first Chief of Police was William Beck, a former NYPD detective, and its first policemen were Fred Keppler, John Hardy, George Fische, James Rice, L.G. Ryan and David Coughlin. As the department expanded, patrolmen were supplemented by "roundsmen", who would lead the patrolmen out to their beats at the beginning of the evening shift, and supervise them during the shift. A roundsman earned $5 more a month than a patrolman . The office of police chief, like the department in general, was subject to political forces for most of its history; for example, in 1878 new Mayor John Black appointed fellow Democrat Daniel Kennedy as chief, and Kennedy promptly fired twenty-five Republican patrolmen (as part of the spoils system then prevalent) . In 1924, Judson W. Mi... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12559984