Good order and safety
Subtitle: a history of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861/1906
By: Allen E. Wagner.
Publisher: Missouri History Museum Press; Missouri History Museum; Distributed by the University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781883982638
Subjects: Saint Louis (Mo.). -- Metropolitan Police Dept. -- History; Police -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History
Description: "Examines the beginnings of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, from 1861 to 1906, when St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The formative years; title: The war years : 1861/1865; title: A peacetime metropolitan police; title: Politics, revolution, and the "social evil"; title: A new city charter and old problems; title: The crittenden years; title: A new board and an international murder case; title: Entering the gay nineties; title: Preparing for the new century : the Police Act of 1899; title: Policing "the future great city of the world"; title: 1904 : the year the world came to St. Louis; title: After the fair was over : the reformation.