PHOTO CREDITS

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Police officers in front of American flag. Image® copyright PhotoDisc, Inc.

Photograph of Lloyd George Sealy, courtesy of his daughter, Daisy Sealy. Police professional, scholar, and pioneer, Sealy joined the NYPD in 1942. He was the first African American in the history of the NYPD ever to command a borough, and the first African American from the NYPD to attend the FBI National Academy. After his retirement from the NYPD in 1969, Sealy became the first African-American professor in the John Jay College Department of Law and Police Science, and later became department chair. For more information about Lloyd Sealy, visit the John Jay College of Criminal Justice web site at http://www.jjay.cuny.edu.

Police honor guard at the dedication of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Washington, DC, October 15, 1991. The Police Foundation is a founding member of the memorial’s board of directors. For more information about the Memorial, go to http://www.nleomf.com. Photograph by Earl Dotter.

Policewomen. In the 1970s, Police Foundation studies on women in policing confirmed women’s equal performance as law enforcement officers. Photograph courtesy of the Newark, New Jersey, Police Department.

Protester flashing peace sign at LAPD officer during the 1992 civil disorder in LA. Police Foundation president Hubert Williams and former chairman William Webster led the investigation into the performance of the LAPD during the civil disorder that followed the Simi Valley trial of four officers accused of beating Rodney King. Photograph courtesy of the Los Angeles Times.

On patrol in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photo from POLICE magazine, July 1978. With funding from the Police Foundation, POLICE Magazine was begun in early 1978 in recognition of the need for increased exchange of information and debate on American policing. The last issue of the magazine was published in July 1983.

ABOUT THE POLICE FOUNDATION

Photograph by Gordon Parks, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

NYPD Officer William Frazier was assigned to the 32nd Precinct in Harlem from 1942 until 1953, when he was promoted to Sergeant.

WHAT’S NEW

Norwich, Connecticut, 1940. Photograph by Jack Delano, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

RESEARCH

Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress.

CRIME MAPPING LABORATORY

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RAMS™II/QSI™

Photos courtesy of:
Charleston, SC, Police Department
Earl Dotter
Los Angeles Times
Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC, Washingtoniana Collection, Washington Daily News Gift Collection
Newark, NJ, Police Department
Rick Reinhard
Seattle, WA, Police Department

COMMUNICATIONS

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PUBLICATIONS

Photo courtesy of the Berkeley, California, Police Department

COMMUNITY POLICING

Photo courtesy of the Seattle Police Department.

SITE MAP

Photo of St. Louis officer Fred Searcy from POLICE Magazine, July 1978.

SEARCH

Courtesy of the Martin Luther King Library, Washingtoniana Collection, Washington Daily News Gift Collection.

GUESTBOOK

Photo courtesy of the Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department.

LINKS

Photograph courtesy of the New York City Police Museum.