To protect and serve

history of policing

  • the first constables

    the first constables
    the first constables
  • the 1970s police officers

    the 1970s police officers
  • 1971

    Seven Correctional Officers were killed during inmate riots at the Attica State Prison in upstate New York.
  • 1972

    Over the course of this eight-day period, five law enforcement officers in New Orleans were shot and killed by a sniper who was a member of the radical group, Black Panthers. New Orleans Police Cadet Alfred Harrell was shot and killed just before 11 pm on
  • 1972

    FBI Special Agents Robert Conners, Charles Ellington Terry Herford and Michael Lynch all died in an aircraft accident while on approach to Cincinnati's Lunken Airport. The agents were escorting a bank fraud suspect and his lawyer to Cincinnati as part of an ongoing investigation.