Statement Analysis 
A lie will only hide the truth; it will never replace or become the truth

SCAN was developed and refined by Avinoam Sapir and has become one of the most effective techniques available for obtaining information and detecting deception from statements of victims, witnesses or suspects.  SCAN (analysis of statements) is an essential tool for law enforcement personnel, investigators, social service personnel, and anyone else who needs to obtain information from written material. Initially, it is best with a written statement, but once one has enough training, and experience they can just as easily do this with spoken words, which can be used in real time during an interview or interrogation. LSI provides SCAN training throughout the US and Canada, and also in Mexico, the UK, Israel, Australia, and other countries. More information can be found at a link on the bottom of this page 

1992: SCAN (Scientific Content Analysis) was brought to the Central District's Major Crime Unit. SCAN was a Linguistic Polygraph technique that, at the time, was so new that the department had never heard of it, and as such, they refused to pay for the course. Officer Driscoll was coming back from a line of duty injury and had received a Workers Compensation payout. Ken used a large portion of that to pay for the training. Within a few months of Driscoll showing, it to different units throughout the department, he was invited to help with various cases, analyzing statements in just about every unit or division within the department, everything from Homicide to Sex offenses to Robbery, Missing persons, and all of the robbery and burglary units in CID and the district's MCU (Major Crime Units) or DDU (District Detective Units). He started out being limited to "Area 1," and before long they added Area 2, but of course if someone came to him from Area 3, he wasn't turning them down. Ken couldn't resist helping out in any and all cases. He also did statements for the State’s Attorney’s Office and various outside agencies like Baltimore County, Ann Arundel County, and Maryland State Police anyone that came to him for help with cases, he took their statement's and trust me, he was loving it. I know he used to come home and tell me and the kids about various cases which taught us how to use the technique. Our youngest daughter was born in 1993, so she grew up learning this technique, while learning to talk, she was learning to detect deception, often while she and her father got to talking, it seemed they both use the technique as if it were second nature to them. I know what it did for Ken's career and am seeing what it is doing for hers. One was a detective, the other a student psychologist. Let's face it, the truth is the truth, and knowing where the truth ends and deceptions begin will help anyone on any career path.  Before leaving the department in 2001 for surgery due to a LOD injury, Det. Driscoll was asked to teach his introductory course to Baltimore's Homicide Unit. BTW His course was authorized by Avinoam Sapir from LSI. Avinoam Sapir developed and refined Statement Analysis, and because Det. Driscoll took it so seriously that he found several observations that had not yet been discovered, Avinoam called Ken a Guru on the subject. "Point of Perspective, "Here vs. There" was just one of Kenny's many observations that were eventually included in LSI's training after Ken brought it to Mr. Sapir’s attention.

Ken still uses the technique and practices reading statements, even though he has been retired since 2003. One of the more well-known cases he was involved in was the Laci Peterson case, in which he contacted the Modesto, California, Police and offered his assistance, providing an observation of Scott Peterson's words. These observations came within five days of Laci’s going missing. Based on something Scott said to the media about his wife's disappearance, Kenny knew she was dead and not missing, as Scott was trying to report. To Ken, it came easy: if Scott Peterson knew she was dead when everyone else only suspected her as missing, then he must have killed her. At the time, The Modesto, California, Police said it was too early; they didn’t want to accuse him of anything too soon. But within the year, they asked Ret. Det. Driscoll for a complete write-up of his observations. BTW, I should point out that at first, he wasn't welcomed with open arms; initially they said something to the effect of, "If she is dead, and he knows it, as you said, he isn't the only one, because you also said she is dead, so how do we know you didn't do it?" Ken said, "Well, I am maybe 3000 miles away, give or take, and I am in a wheelchair, so good luck with that theory. When you find out she is dead, I can tell you about when and where she got dead. Feel free to contact me." Kenny was able to tell them what room she was killed in and the approximate time that she was killed, all based on Scott Peterson’s words. Within a year, Laci’s Body was recovered, and Scott Peterson was arrested, tried, and convicted of her murder. Other cases he assisted with included Haleigh Cummings, in which police were told to look more closely at the girlfriend; Ken was told she passed her polygraph. Ken said, "No offense, but the polygraph is only as good as the examiner and the questions asked. I know from the words used; the girlfriend knows more than she is telling." A few years later, it was determined the girl may have been taken from the girlfriend over money she owed for drugs. 

The technique is very strong in the right hands and has been used to solve many cases throughout this country and internationally.  The first time it was actually used in a case for Baltimore police was about 6 to 8 months after Ken had started using it; he had come back to work after a surgery that nearly ended his career in 1993. He had been telling everyone about the course and how it worked. One night a call came out for a carjacking, and within 45 minutes of the report, some officers in Sector 4 of the Central District found the car with a driver that matched the description given in the BOLO. The officers thought it would be an easy case for Ken, and at the same time, he could get them a quick confession, making the court part easy for everyone. Ken sat down and had the suspect write a statement. Ken began to read and analyze the statement. After the first read over, he found nothing, so he read it again and again, but he couldn't find the deception. Confused for a few minutes, he began to doubt his ability with a technique that during training he never had trouble with; he was 100% in training statements. Then it hit him: during training he never had a truthful statement, so he called the reporting person in, and in order to get what is called a pure original statement, he explained he was just handed the case and knows nothing at all about it, so if he could, would he write down what happened? This was important because if you ask someone to tell you what happened and they tell you, then ask them to write it down, the words in the written statement will be different from the spoken statement, and those changes could be important. So, Ken always had it written before they talked. Not that if they weren't there, there wouldn't be other words to use, but the life of an analyst is much easier if everything is pure. As the victim of this carjacking finished his statement and started to turn it 180 degrees from his seat to Ken's across the table from him, Ken had glanced down and already seen deception on the page. Even more was found when he read the entire statement. After being confronted by Ken and before leaving, the reporting person gave a new statement, one with no deception, that nearly matched word for word with the statement given by the suspect arrested in that car. This was important as it cleared a man of false charges made against him—charges that could have kept him locked up for anywhere from 6 months to a year before a trial may have set him free, and even then, it would have been up to the reporting person to have come clean. Ken letting the carjack suspect go didn't go off without a hitch; the arresting officer and his sergeant wanted Ken's butt. But once they learned, Ken didn't just let a guy go because the guy fooled him or refused to confess; he had the reporting person confess, and better yet, without knowing what the arrested man said, the reporting person gave a similar version of events. So, this started off big, and when the Major learned of this newfound technique, it led to Ken's being transferred to the major crimes unit, where he would work the last 10 years of his career and receive 4 of his 6 Officer of the Year Awards. Now, after being retired for 15 years, Ken received the 7th Officer of the Year Award, which was written more like a lifetime achievement award and can be found on another page I made for him that you can find by clicking  HERE.

 "It does not take many words to tell the truth." Sitting Bull

"Just as it takes few words to tell the truth, it often takes many words to bury a lie.."

When we speak the truth, it is concise and straightforward, requiring no embellishments or elaborate explanations. On the other hand, when someone tries to conceal the truth or deceive others, they often resort to lengthy explanations and convoluted stories to cover up their lies. This highlights the power and simplicity of truth, as opposed to the complexity and verbosity of falsehoods.

In 1993 the following statement was written by a citizen who had earlier in the night reported he was the victim of a carjacking. This statement was not written until after he filed his report with Southern District Patrol and a suspect was arrested within 45 minutes by Central District Officers while he was still in the car. The suspect in that arrest gave a statement, to a Central District Patrolman that had studied and learned a new technique that provided a kind of linguistic polygraph. It is interesting that after a year of trying to get this technique seriously looked at by the department, it took this case to change things.

Using the SCAN technique, the officer found the statement provided by the suspect in this case to have been credible. With this the officer called the reporting person into the district to tell him he had taken over his case, and that he wanted him to write a statement as to what happened, while the officer pulled reports. Within 15 minutes of reading the statement, the officer had a confession from the victim, stating that he had lied, and that he was not carjacked. He gave an account of the night’s events that matched more closely those given by the suspect they had in holding. As promised the guy they had in lock-up was released without charges. Making the first time this technique was used, in our agency, it was used to clear an innocent man from being charged with a very serious crime. The Officer was transferred to the District’s Major Crime Unit where he remained for the next 10 years, clearing the innocent, and gaining confessions from the guilty. He also trained and will still train any Baltimore City Officer interested in learning the technique for FREE.

 

 

 

Voice stress analysis (VSA) and computer voice stress analysis (CVSA) are collectively a pseudoscientific technology that aims to infer deception from stress measured in the voice. The CVSA records the human voice using a microphone, and the technology is based on the tenet that the non-verbal, low-frequency content of the voice conveys information about the physiological and psychological state of the speaker. Typically utilized in investigative settings, the technology aims to differentiate between stressed and non-stressed outputs in response to stimuli (e.g., questions posed), with high stress seen as an indication of deception.

The use of voice stress analysis (VSA) for the detection of deception is controversial. Discussions about the application of VSA have focused on whether this technology can indeed reliably detect stress, and, if so, whether deception can be inferred from this stress. Critics have argued that—even if stress could reliably be measured from the voice—this would be highly similar to measuring stress with the polygraph, for example, and that all critiques centered on polygraph testing apply to VSA as well. A 2002 review of the state of the art conducted for the United States Department of Justice found several technical challenges to the technology, including the same problem of determining deception. When reviewing the literature on the effectiveness of VSA in 2003, the National Research Council concluded, “Overall, this research and the few controlled tests conducted over the past decade offer little or no scientific basis for the use of the computer voice stress analyzer or similar voice measurement instruments”.^:168 A 2013 paper published in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics reviewed the "scientific implausibility" of its principles and "ungrounded claims of the aggressive propaganda from sellers of voice stress analysis gadgets".

Confession made following a voice stress examination was allowed to be used as evidence in a case in Wisconsin in 2014. In the case of the murder of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe confessions were made while three suspects were undergoing VSA which were later found to be false by a judge; the manufacturer of the VSA equipment later settled a lawsuit that alleged that it was liable for the harm the three suspects suffered. In a similar case, Donovan Allen falsely confessed to killing his mother after failing a VSA test. He was acquitted 15 years later based on exonerating DNA evidence. George Zimmerman was given a VSA after he fatally shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.

 False Confessions

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One thing the Major Crime Unit didn't deal with much, were false confessions. One time they had a guy claim he gave Ken a false confession, even provided a polygraph result that said he had passed the test, clearing him of the theft being investigated. This was done in an attempt to clear himself. Ken suggested he do one of two things: either allow the department's polygraph examiner to retest him or have his polygraph examiner retest him using Ken's questions. Ken said a polygraph is only as good as the questions and the examiner. He emphasized that it was crucial to ensure the accuracy of the polygraph results by using standardized and unbiased questioning techniques. Ken also highlighted the importance of having a qualified and experienced polygraph examiner who follows strict protocols to minimize the chances of a false positive or an incorrect negative finding. In this case, the suspect said he would still go to trial and plead guilty, but he just wanted Ken to know and believe that he didn't do it. Ken told him that if he didn't do it, he couldn't take a guilty plea because the courts wouldn't knowingly allow it. Ken stuck to his guns, saying he either needed the questions asked or to have him retake the test using Ken's questions. Ken explained that, not knowing the questions, he could have had someone quiz him on a totally different crime than the one being investigated. In the end, the guy agreed that that was what he had done; he had written out the questions for his polygraph examiner in a way that he could easily answer them as if he didn't commit the crime being committed because he was being questioned over a different theft. He said he knew if he had to answer any questions written out by Ken, they would have been more specific to the crime he had committed, and he wouldn't have been able to fool the system. 

It should also be noted that Ken didn't know the questions he was asked. Ken was handed a letter saying he passed the polygraph and was cleared of the theft being investigated. But there were no examples of the questions. For all Ken knew, the questions could have been, "Did you steal the Mona Lisa?" "Did you steal the Hope diamond?" to which the suspect could honestly answer, "No, he didn't!" 

When confronted, the suspect went on to say that when he confessed he was being honest, he did rob his company's safe and steal the daily receipts. His girlfriend had broken up with him when she learned he had stolen from his workplace. He tried to claim he had provided a false confession. And he came up with the idea of writing out questions about a different theft than the one being investigated; he found a theft in the newspaper, so it would be current, and he could convince the polygraph examiner to think it was the crime he was being charged with or suspected of. In the end, the polygraph technician cleared him of that crime, but Ken had never suspected him of committing that crime in the first place. Ken said that, to be honest, it might have worked. Ken was busy, overworked, and had more important cases on his desk when the guy came back in. But like most cases, when Ken was heavy into SCAN, a single word or phrase stood out; it just stuck with Ken, and here, the note said it, and the suspect said it, and what Ken said felt like too much emphasis when the suspect said, "I passed the test, proving I didn't commit the theft being investigated!" The way he said, "The theft being investigated!" which was also written on the letter that said he passed the polygraph. It just drew too much attention to the fact that there may have been another theft other than the one being investigated, and when it seemed too many words were used or words were uncomforatably strung together, it stood out to Ken, making him question why. 

Ken always felt that if you ask the right questions and the suspect confesses and provides information that could only be known by the person that committed the crime, a false confession is less likely and more impossible. He cautioned against giving information during the interview. There was a saying his instructors said, "Be the well, not the fountain." Meaning, gather information, don't give it out, and be careful with your questions, because your questions can teach the interviewee what not to say as he or she learns more about what you know or don't know about the crime being investigated. In the end, he confessed for a second time that he did rob the company safe. All the company wanted was for him to find a new job.  

NOTE: Technically, he could have taken an "Alford Plea." Almost 50 years ago, the US Supreme Court recognized that if certain criteria were met, a sentencing judge could accept a plea—in effect, a de facto plea of guilty—from an individual who maintained they were, in fact, innocent. In the case, Alford pleaded guilty to second degree murder in order to escape a potential death sentence. Ordinarily, a guilty plea must include a knowing and intelligent waiver of trial and an admission of guilt. In fact, a trial judge must generally conduct a searching inquiry into whether or not there is a factual basis that a crime occurred, that the defendant committed it, and that this is the conduct to which the defendant is admitting. As a detective, Ken used the same standards; he wouldn't take a confession on a crime he didn't think the subject committed. In Alford, the Supreme Court determined that an admission of guilt was not constitutionally required. Ken knew of Alford pleas but wanted a case that was unquestionably a case of not just knowing he had the right guy but also making sure that guy knew he wasn't fooling anyone. Well, may his girlfriend. Ken wasn't their couples counselor, and often when he broke someone for falsely claiming they were abducted, it was reported as a kind of a late note to explain to a wife, husband, mother, etc. why they were not somewhere they should have been. Once broken, Ken used to tell them, "You can lie to your wife, your mother, or your preist, but don't lie to the Baltimore Police!"  Ken took pride in his ability to not only uncover the truth but to also instill a sense of accountability in those he interrogated. His stern warning served as a reminder that honesty is crucial when dealing with law enforcement. Ken's dedication to his job earned him the respect of his colleagues and reinforced the importance of trust and integrity within the community. 

 

  It was a long time after the Polygraph that two new techniques came along,
Polygraph Machine and Voice Stress Analysis

Information on the Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation can be found by clicking anywhere on this line.

 Voice Stress Analysis

 COATLESS "COPS"? NO!

Jul 15, 1912

The Sun (1837-1989); pg. 8

COATLESS “COPS”? NO!

Policemen, Fat and Thin, Balk At
Suggestions For Comfort.

MARSHALL FARNAN SWATS PLAN

Modest Apollo’s, weary of displaying formless, sidestep proposals for a shirtwaist forced

Police official do not seem to take kindly to the suggestion of a “shirtwaist” form in hot weather. The idea has been advanced that lighter clothing would increase the comfort and efficiency of the men as it was done with letter carriers.

Marshall Farnan would be perfectly willing to have the men wear shirtwaist if it were practicable, but he says he doesn’t think it will be.

“In the first place,” said the Marshal, “they wouldn’t have any place to put their pistols. A policeman carries his gun in a holster (in his pocket) under his coat where he can get to it quickly. If he had to wear a shirtwaist he would have to carry it in his back pocket, and probably but in the pocket even at that, it would attract attention and be hard to get out quickly if he needed it.

“Of course, a policeman doesn’t often need his gun, but when he does wanted he wants it badly and he wants a quick. That’s the main reason against shirtwaist’s.

In rainstorms and tussles

“Then if he got caught in a rainstorm and had his shirtwaist soaked, he would be a rather forlorn looking site until he changed it. A man can’t keep a couple of shirtwaist handy, so as to put them on when he gets wet. A coat doesn’t look so bad when it gets wet.

“And then there’s another thing. When a policeman starts to arrest some fellows he often has to wrestle with his prisoner and it would be easy to have a shirtwaist ripped off. Some of the men even get their coats torn. A policeman with a ripple shirtwaist would be like a fellow coming home in a barrel.

“The close the men wear in the summer has been chosen because of its lightweight. You could almost see through the stuff, but it wears well and it’s economical.”

“How would you like to wear a shirtwaist?” He was asked. “Well,” he mused, “I don’t know. I’m so used to wearing a coat that I guess if I went out in a shirtwaist I take a side street, so that no policeman would see me and arrest me for not having enough close on. I’m not built for shirtwaist, anyway.”

Views of Stout and thin

One of the Stout policeman was asked what he thought of the plan.

“Say,” he puffed, wiping his steaming face, “I’m hot now, all right, but if I had to wear one of those things and have fresh guys coming along every few minutes yelling, “peak – a – Bill,” I guess I’d be hotter still. I’m right touchy about my shape. Somebody would come along and say, “get a V shape, officer, get a V-shaped –“ and I guess I’d have a sweet time explaining to the police magistrate that I had run a fellow in for disorderly conduct.”

One of the thin ones was asked if he would like to wear a shirtwaist. “Say,” he replied, “what would I look like, standing at the corner of Charles and Baltimore streets at 2 o’clock of an afternoon with a shirtwaist on and no suspenders. I’m thin; can’t you see that? And my suspenders do real work. No, sir re-, none of these shirtwaist for mine. Let the letter carriers wear them – nobody loves them.”

More info on going coatless can be found HERE

 

Copyright © 2002 Baltimore City Police History - Ret Det Kenny Driscoll

Baltimore Police 1st went Coatless in 1922

 1923 New York City Newspaper Report Showing a Baltimore Police Officer Coatless in Public
The below pic explains this pic, as does the rest of this article

The First day BPD went Coatless was 18 July 1922 but this was limited to our Traffic officers directing traffic
The remainder of the officers in Baltimore would have to wear their coats until 6 June 1925 when Commissioner Gaither issued an order, saying all members of the police department while working between the hours of 8 A.M. and 4 P.M. may remove their coats and go out in their "Shirt Sleeves" provided they wear a clean, and pressed "White Oxford Shirt," with a Black Tie.

1912 – 15 July 1912 – Officers had been wearing coats on duty and off duty, winter and summer, with no chance of going coatless in site. Marshall Farnan said he would be perfectly willing to have his men wear shirtwaist if it were practicable, but he says he doesn’t think it will be. “In the first place,” said the Marshal, “They wouldn’t have any place to put their pistols. [This was a time before the duty belt, wearing of a sidearm on our hip, back then, the gun was simply slipped into a pocket holster, within their coat] "If he had to wear a shirtwaist," continued the Marshal, "he would have to carry his pistol in his back pocket, and probably but in the pocket even at that, it would attract attention and be hard to get out quickly if he needed it." “Of course, a policeman doesn’t often need his gun, but when he does want it he wants it badly, and he wants a quick." That’s the main reason Farnan was so dead set against shirtwaists. HERE

1922 – 18 July 1922 – Traffic Officers will be allowed to appear coatless on job while wearing attractive white Oxford Shirts. These officers will start wearing long sleeve white Oxford shirts with a low, turned-down collar and a black tie as they preside to direct traffic on their assigned street corners.

1925 – 6 June 1925 – General Charles Gaither issued an order, effective, 6 June 1925 all members of the Baltimore Police Department who are on duty between 8 A.M. and 4 P.M. may remove their coats provided they are wearing a white Oxford shirt, and a black tie. This privilege has been granted for the previous two years for department’s traffic officers.

1956 – 29 June 1956 – Casual But Official, Patrolman Donald Miller displayed the latest open-neck short-sleeve police shirts that would be worn for the remainder of the [1956] summer by Baltimore's officers. Police officials stressed that only a specific model Oxford shirt has been approved, thereby eliminating the danger of patrolmen selecting the more brightly colored type shirts of their liking.

17 July 1922

Coatless Day Era Dawns - For Traffic Cop at Last

Beginning tomorrow 18 July 1922 regulators of vehicles and pedestrians will appear on job in attractive white Oxford shirts. The traffic cops start slinging a dog tomorrow. In white Oxford shirts with low, turned - down collars and natty little black four-in-hands they will preside at the street corners.

The era of the perspiring officer in the Go-Go Boxes is at an end.  Someone has taken pity on them.  Beginning at 8:00 AM tomorrow they will hang up their coats and go to work. Some “friend” of the policemen has donated money for 20 dozen shirts.

Instructions with Shirts

This friend has seen the plight of the cops.  The money was not forthcoming from the city, so he relieved their discomfort.
Today four shirts are being issued to each director of traffic.  With them go instructions as to the way they are to be worn.

On the left breast there is a pocket, over this the police badge will be pinned.  That and the necktie will complete the equipment.
The gift marks one deviation from the custom the police are used to.  They are in the habit of paying for all their equipment.  Small amounts are taken from each pay until these charges are covered.  But the shirts will not cost them a cent.  That isn’t the only reason they will be welcome, however.  If you have noticed any policemen standing in his “place in the sun” during the past few days, you’ll understand why the heavy coats are not popular and why they’re smiling today over the prospect of cooler times to come. Commissioner Gaither refused to divulge the name of the donor.  The money came last week, and Captain Stephen Nelson, of the traffic department, was ordered to get bids on the shirts. [A1]

Coatless Cops Rejected

The patrolman on the beat will continue to wear their coats.  It is pointed out that they have opportunities to avail themselves of the shade now and then.  But the traffic men had no escape from the heat.

6 June 1925

Coats Off in Court

Coatless men were everywhere. In the Court of Common Pleas, Judge W Stuart Symington told the jurors, lawyers and witnesses that they might remove their coats and make themselves as comfortable as possible. All took advantage of the privilege except the Judge himself.

Mr. Gaither issued an order, effective today, 6 June 1925 that members of the police department who are on duty between 8A. M. and 4 P.M. may remove their coats provided they wear white shirts, white colors and black ties. This privilege has been granted for the last two years for Baltimore’s traffic police.

 

Unfortunately there is no better copy of this article available. we will look to see if we can find the original.

29 June 1956

1956 - 29 June 1956 - Casual But Official – Patrolman Donald Miller displays the latest open-neck short-sleeve style in police shirts which will be worn for the remainder of the summer by Baltimore officers. Police officials stress that only a specific model oxford hurt has been approved, thereby eliminating the danger of patrolmen selecting the more brightly colored type shirts of their liking.

A1 - Note, there was once a problem with payroll, and checks couldn't be issued, the commissioner General Charles Gaither, paid every officer on the force out of his pocket, he was re-reimbursed, but he didn't want his guys to go without pay, so he took it out of his own funds. While studying intersections working on a traffic safety board of some kind with Triple-A and other Police Chiefs around the country as they tried to establish a national standard for traffic lights. The commissioner of the NYPD felt two lights was enough, Gaither having studied this on his own, knew we needed a third light, he argued without a middle light, pedestrians, and left turning vehicles will be stranded every time a light changes. So, Gaither watched these police on these corners working the GO-GO - Semaphore and other intersections traffic devises. So, when a donation of 20 dozen shirts come in, it is his way of not just helping those he has watched work and admires, but also making sure they all have the same shirts, and they are hurts he approves of. I would bet money he bought the shirts for his men.

 

  These pics were ran to show officers can look more professional in a uniform without a coat than they do sweating while wearing a coat

 

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222-3333
Emergency Number

 

20 May 1987

Emergency Number - Call Police at 222-3333

The City Police Department's communication bureau will start an expanded operation at 8 A.M. tomorrow. Citizens in distress are urged to call the police on the new EMERGENCY NUMBER: 222-3333 Police officials, anxious to put the new nerve center in operation, predict that persons calling for police assistance will get "quick telephone response and prompt service."

Two of the major criticisms made by the International Association of Chiefs of Police last year was that the public had difficulty contacting the department on its overloaded telephone circuits and officers were slow in arriving at trouble areas.

150 More Radio Cars

To correct both problems the department has increased from five to ten the number of emergency telephone lines to communications, and added about 150 radio cars to its patrol fleet. In addition, patrol cars will be dispatched on four frequencies instead of the present two. Along with the increased number of dispatch frequencies and the additional emergency telephone lines the communications bureau has added more than a dozen men to operate the modernized system. The over-all change was precipitated by a general increase in calls for service, the added mobility of the department and a new and more accurate reporting and-records-keeping system which is gradually being phased into the department, district by district.

More Arrests Forecast

An official in the Planning and Research Division said that surveys have revealed that by culling the response time- how long it takes the police to get to the scene of reported crime the department will increase its arrest percentage. The cost of the new communications center was greatly reduced by the use of the department's maintenance crew which has worked on a crash schedule for the past four months to have it completed by tomorrow's deadline. The entire radio system was designed and installed by departmental personnel assigned to the communications bureau. The multi-position console was fashioned and constructed by the maintenance crew, which also ripped out partitions of four rooms and a hall to create one large room in which to locate the new facility. One official estimated that the department may have saved close to $200,000 by drawing on the talents of its members.

DIAL 222-3333
Officers man the new Communication Bureau at Central District Police Headquarters.
The emergency number under the new system, 222-3333, and went into use on 20 May 1967.

Emergency Number
Timeline

1921 - 4 March 1921 - Marine Unit Radios Installed - Commissioner Gaither announces telephone-radio communication from his Marine Unit. He announced he would be using Navy surplus telephone-radios. The radios would be installed in Deputy Marshal George G. Henry’s office, as well as both police boats the Lannan and the Carter. These were set up as one-way radio’s in which the Marshal could pass information on the two police boats. The boats could then go to one of eight police call boxes strategically placed on shore. It would be nearly two years later in June of 1923 that they would have the system converted over to a Two-way radio system. In this instance, they used the most current military surplus radio equipment, set first in the Robert D. Carter, and most of the Fire Department’s Fire boats with more boats to follow. Note: On 4 March 1933 - Radio Communication was established for the first radio communications system between Patrol Vehicles and a Central Dispatcher went into service using the same surplus telephone-radios Commissioner Gaither picked up for the Marine unit nearly 10 years earlier all of this first suggested to the Board of Estimates in September of 1931. 

1933 - 4 March 1933 - The First Radio Communications system between Patrol Vehicles and Headquarters took place while testing between the Northern District [Keswick & 34th] from Central Dispatch, Broadcasting from Police Headquarters. Everything went on the air for the first time at noon on 4 March 1933 - Station WPFH  (Police Broadcasting Station - Spent the morning making the tests using the 19 vehicles that had been equipped with receivers. An Acronym was made for WPFH - Wonderful Protection For Homes- Note Commissioner Gaither first suggested this system to the Board of Estimates in September of 1931

1967 - 21 May 1967 at 8 am, Baltimore Police started a new emergency police number, it started in the Central District where those with an emergency were instructed to dial 222-3333 This number would remain in use until 1 March 1985 when the Baltimore Police officially began its use of the 911 emergency call system. Switching from SA 7-1200 to contact police in the event of an emergency to dialing 222-3333, this new number would last from this date in 1967 until 1 March 1985 when our 911 system was implemented  

1971 - 27 July 1971 - the Community Relations and Youth Divisions were combined into a new division known as the Community Services Division. The creation of this division and the resulting centralization of Administrative functions provides an effective channel of communication between the Police Officer and the community he serves. The major thrust of our expanded Community Services function is aimed at our young people. It is the Division's job to keep clear the channel of communication between officers and the community. The accomplishment of this mission is aided by the division's two Summer Camp operations located at Camp Perkins and Camp Ritchie. Also, our Officer Friendly Program geared for its first full year of operation. 

1972 - 30 August 1972  - To convert the department's mobile communications system to more versatile portable transceivers and to incorporate 450 MHZ channels. The portable transceivers greatly increase police service to the citizenry by reducing response time for emergency calls, by providing a uniform communications system for command personnel to direct personnel in emergency situations, and by promoting a more efficient and safer foot patrol coverage. The incorporation of 450MHZ channels created an even more efficient communications ay1tem by allowing more practical frequency allocations. 

1975 - 19 September 1975, the department in cooperation with the State's Attorney's Office and various taxicab companies became part of the "Civilian Radio Taxi Patrol" in an effort to increase police service to the citizens of Baltimore. If, while on duty, a cab driver, whose vehicle is identified by a "Civilian Radio Taxi Patrol" shield on the right and left rear-quarter panels, obaerve1 anything demanding immediate police attention, he notifies his dispatcher, who in turn calls the Communication Division via a special Hotline. This program is another example of the department's efforts to involve the citizens of Baltimore in a united fight against crime. 

1982 - 11 January 1982 - The department began it's Telephone Reporting system telephone reporting unit, police will not argue with citizens who specifically request police service. According to Dennis Hill, the Police Emergency Number, 222·3333, will remain the same. If a person calls this number and requests a patrol car, one will be sent within an average of six minutes.

1985 - 1 March 1985 - Baltimore City Police officially begins it's 911 emergency call number, a program that was in the works since the first call came in at 11:36 am from someone that had locked their keys their car. Prior to 911 emergency calls went into 222-3333 and non-emergency calls went into 396-1111 

1996 - 2 Oct 1996 - Baltimore becomes the first Police Department in the country to use the Non-Emergency 311 system. We had only started using 911 11 years earlier on 1 March 1985.

P.O. Box 222-3333

Click HERE or on the Above Article to see full size article

The Baltimore Sun Monday

4 March 1968

1-800-223-2525

In 1985, 911 comes to Baltimore

15 February 1985, Baltimore Sun reports 911 to begin in 1 March 1985

Copyright © 2002 Baltimore City Police History - Ret Det Kenny Driscoll 

 

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2007
Alfred L. Parks  02/24/07
Arthur F. Meeks  02/06/07
Capt. James S.M. DiPino 01/27/2007
Carroll Wise  04/16/07
Daniel Jonczak  12/10/07
Douglas Coster 05/23/07
Edward S. Bohager  02/04/07
Eugene Price  05/01/07
Francis L. Miller  10/28/07
George B. Mortimer, Jr.  04/11/07
George W. Nitsh  11/21/07
George Watkins  08/06/07
George Williams  12/19/07
Harry Hilnbrand  08/16/07
Jason Smith, Jr.  08/20/07
John Cunningham  04/18/07
John Distefano  12/02/07
John E. Markell  09/11/07
John J. Mcgee  07/18/07
John M. Burford  02/03/07
John P. Matthews  12/28/07
Juanita Cooper  09/22/07
Kenneth J. Morgan  09/21/07
Lawrence J. Malat  04/07/07
Louis A. Brandt  03/17/07
Martin E. Freeburger   03/16/07
Maurice Weisberg  02/21/07
Paul Shrader 12/29/07
Robert Ewing  03/01/07
Robert M. Kuhn  07/26/07
Robert Prescott  09/15/07
Stanley Brown  11/30/07
Thomas Riley, Iii  05/31/07
Vernon Dranbauer, Jr.  03/04/07
Vincent T. Beck   02/19/07
William Delahanty  11/18/07
William Depaola 04/06/07
William G. Bory  04/08/07
William Seibert  09/20/07

2006
Arthur Simonsen  12/20/06
Charles Eyler, Jr.  02/06/06
Charles George, Sr.  09/12/06
Charles H. Lucas  06/08/06
Charles W. Kurth  05/16/06
Claude H. Lamb  04/17/06
Donald E. Barnett  10/08/06
Donald E. Oakjones  12/20/06
Edward Hamilton, Jr.   03/19/06
Edwin L. Harvey  09/17/06
Elmer D. Mccoy  06/22/06
Elmer L. L'ecuyer  02/18/06
Ernest Gardner, Jr.  03/13/06
Ernie D. Meadows  05/02/06
Floyd Rowzee  11/14/06
George Carmichael  02/28/06
George E. Bewley  12/21/06
George Wehn, Sr.  02/22/06
Gharles G. Jones, Jr.  03/22/06
Harry G. Metzbower 03/18/06
Harvey Poseno  09/15/06
Herbert Cline, Sr.  05/29/06
Herbert Dowling   10/13/06
Herbert Ryan  07/07/06
John Ryan  12/23/06
John Streett  05/06/06
John Warren  01/10/06
Joseph B. Lovett, Jr.  12/22/06
Joseph C. Brady  05/02/06
Joseph J.F. Beling, Jr  09/21/06
Joseph L. Palmerino, Sr.  07/30/06
Joseph Sullivan  12/24/06
Leo Barclay   11/29/06
Leonard Byrd  05/19/06
Lloyd Green  01/01/06
Melvin J. Lipinski  05/01/06
Paul S. Miller   09/21/06
Robert H. List  5/25/06
Robert Springer, Sr.  01/09/06
Thomas Dunn, Ii  2006
Vernon Gray  06/21/06
Vernon Green  05/30/06
Wilbert Sisco, Sr.  05/23/06
William Hilseberg  03/15/06
William M. Mccallister  04/12/06
William Sekinger, Jr.  07/31/06

2005
Bruce W. Bull  05/16/05
Charles M. Markiewicz  04/14/05
Derek Snyder   03/12/05
Donald E. Morgan  01/11/05
Everett Voelker  12/11/05
Frank Grunder  06/04/05
Gary L. Lippy  10/06/05
Glen E. Meadows 12/02/05
James A. Kelly  01/08/05
James A. Mccloskey 10/11/05
James L. Bowling  01/03/05
James Stevens  02/06/05
John Plantholt 11/17/05
Johnw. Laufert  02/28/05
Joseph H. Longo  07/19/05
Larry Triplett  12/02/05
Naomi Reichelt  09/24/05
Richard Thayer  01/28/05
Robert E. Nagle, Sr.  08/11/05
Rodney George  08/10/05
Ronald C. Griffith  11/08/05
Russell France  12/10/05
Thomas Deangelis  08/26/05
William Clayton, Jr.  12/11/05
William Spradbrow  03/21/05
William T. Clark  08/15/05
Malcolm Davis - 2005

2004
Albert Smith, Jr.  04/18/04
Alexander J. Pelsinsky, Jr.  12/30/04
Bernard J. Newberger  02/07/04
David A. Lehman  05/01/04
David Popilok  01/29/04
Donald Chase  09/23/04
Donald Reedy  01/11/04
Edmond Helm  02/03/04
Edward G. Johnson  04/30/04
Edward Rock  04/25/04
James Whipp 4/29/15
Elizabeth Cooke 06/12/04
James Watkins  12/04
Jesse H. Benson, Jr.  01/20/04
John D. Evans  01/09/04
John J. Bryl  12/29/04
John R. Mitcheltree  08/09/04
John Swann   03/05/04
Lawrence J. Machovec  08/03/04
Lee Beauchamp 03/20/04
Richard Martin 12/2004
Martin Whitehill  12/26/04
Peggy A Lewis 06/03/04
Richard T. Palmer  01/09/04
Robert M. Leftwich  09/04/04
Ronald J. La Martina  10/24/04
Stanley Zawadzki   06/23/04
Thomas Garner  03/11/04
Waldemar S. Bradshaw  01/01/04
Wilbur T. Langville  11/18/04
William Cooper, Sr. 11/16/04
William Surratt  05/19/04
William Treherne  11/18/04

2003
Adam Danielak 02/28/03
Carl Flemke  05/26/03
Charles A. Parscal  11/14/03
Charles C. Owens, Jr.  02/11/03
Chester Evans  12/21/03
Elmer Weidenhoft  08/11/03
Francis Schmitz   09/23/03
Frank Wolchik  02/07/03
George J. Leichling   03/15/03
George Tiburzi   10/29/03
Gerard C. Brandner  09/07/03
James C. Osborne   07/13/03
James E. Billing  02/22/03
John M. Nagel   01/02/03
John Wagner  11/22/03
Julian Robinson  05/20/03
Justus L. Long  12/22/03
Kenneth White   04/30/03
Lawrence Grabowski  09/29/03
Lawrence Tawney 06/20/03
Leon Tomlin   01/15/03
Leonard Broseker  01/31/03
Lester W. Boring  02/05/03
Marshall Davis   08/28/03
Maurice Epple  01/09/03
Michael E. Lee 03/5/03
Norbert Fialkowski  02/11/03
Richard B. Newnam   07/23/03
Richard Wojtek  04/18/03
Robert E. Mccauley  05/14/03
Russel E. Mills  04/24/03
Sophia Dziuba  08/20/03
Theodore Staab 12/14/03
Thomas H. Black, Jr.  07/08/03
Thomas Rose  12/27/03
William B. Bolesta  02/18/03

2002
Allen Rogers   08/29/02
Anthony J. Monczewski   11/02/02
Charles Haughey  03/29/02
Donald Dyson, Sr.   01/03/02
Donald Stevens  05/03/02
Eugene C. Brukiewa    01/23/02
Floyd R. Lilly, Sr.   08/15/02
Francis Cordwell  10/21/02
Francis Ernst  06/03/02
Francis M. Lingner   11/10/02
Frank A. Stallings  11/11/02
Frank Dressel  12/01/02
Frederick W. Neubauer, Sr.  04/03/02
Furrie Cousins  09/14/02
George Deares  03/25/02
Harry J. Kaplan   02/17/02
James Rollins   02/24/02
James Willis   09/09/02
John W. Brawner,  Jr.  05/09/02
Joseph Dalton   10/15/02
Joseph S. Grossman   02/17/02
Lawrence Weichert   06/18/02
Louis Distefano  03/18/02
Luther Robinson   10/14/02
Mary Stout   10/28/02
Mcneal Brockington, Jr.  03/29/02
Michael Crutchfield  04/28/02
Norman Pomrenke  08/11/02
Robert Armentrout  04/12/02
Robert P. Day  03/27/02
Roy Spruill   08/23/02
Wayne M. Mullaney  07/19/02
William Law, Jr.  05/25/02

2001
Alva H. Boley  09/17/01
Anthony Williams, Sr.  04/17/01
Bernard Sanzone  01/29/01
Bingham Hunt  02/22/01
Bruce H. Patten  04/11/01
Charles Beam   11/11/01
Charles Reuling  11/18/01
Clarence Fetrow  02/18/01
Collis M. Blow  02/19/01
Dale White  08/25/01
Donald Posey  04/09/01
Ethyle Diven  08/19/01
Flan Couch, Jr.  01/16/01
George Wockenfuss  03/16/01
Griffin Dobyns  04/16/01
Harry Harper  07/06/01
Henry Roth  05/28/01
Herman Heidel  12/16/01
Joan Barnard  08/07/01
John D. Perdue   07/16/01
John E. Bunker  03/29/01
John Elton  03/30/01
John P. Boyter, Sr.  07/15/01
John Scales   03/27/01
John W. Morseberger  12/10/01
Paul Wieber  11/22/01
Robert Weimer, Sr.  11/23/01
Ronald Hyde  03/18/01
Ronald Readmond  05/05/01
Thomas Gummer  07/17/01
Walter Gryctz  05/28/01
William Gerbes  05/17/01
William I. Kearney  02/09/01
William J. Pennington  01/04/01
William J.Ennd  10/05/01
William W. Mcmeins, Sr.  06/12/01

2000
Albert Sharpe   02/14/00
Darrell Duggins   05/10/00
Earl Carter  12/21/00
Edwin Emich   03/13/00
Ernest A. Buck  05/16/00
Erwin Berger  11/09/00
Eugene Crane  10/04/00
Francis Donohue  07/16/00
Frank J. Lanahan  06/30/00
Frank Seglinski   01/08/00
Frank Trapasso  11/03/00
Gardner Stanke  10/29/00
George M. Montgomery  05/17/00
Harmar Hiltz  01/30/00
Harold Dent  07/28/00
Henry Herold    04/17/00
James Babka, Jr.  10/29/00
James Cvach   03/25/00
James Smith   02/22/00
John E. Mitchell  3/16/00
John P. Clark  12/05/00
Joseph F. Leyh  09/20/00
Leonard Santivasci  02/22/00
Louis Baronella  12/08/00
Lynn Ayers  02/14/00
Melvin Freeman  10/06/00
Patricia A. Mullen  09/08/00
Patrick Hagerty  02/19/00
Richard Heidecker  12/24/00
Robert Hardesty, Sr.  06/12/00
Robert M. Birney  01/16/00
Thomas Hennessey  04/18/00
Valentine W. Markowski  06/19/00
William T. Kelly   01/19/00

1999
Anthony J. Blaszak  03/28/99
August B. Loetz   04/09/99
Carroll E. Lloyd, Sr.  08/22/99
Carter Spencer  12/07/99
Charles E. Kearney   01/31/99
Charles Podzimek, Jr.   01/27/99
Charles Wenzel  01/18/99
Donald S. Mckay  09/29/99
Edward S. Kalmbacher  08/26/99
Frank Wrzosek  08/27/99
George Eble   02/04/99
George Hasson   03/23/99
James P. Minderlein  02/04/99
James Schultz   12/30/99
Jerome A. Koch  12/29/99
John Canning   04/28/99
John E. Mckinley, Jr.  12/25/99
John J. Mcnally, Jr.  10/01/99
John Wheltle  12/21/99
Joseph Thomas  05/17/99
Michael Venglarik   01/18/99
Phillip Karcesky, Jr.   04/08/99
Phillip Smith   03/08/99
Robert E. Clarke  03/19/99
Robert J, Buettner, Jr.  10/22/99
Robert Zeinog  02/28/99
Thomas Whalen  11/11/99
William F. Smith  10/27/99
William H. Ault  06/14/99

1998
Arthur Dewitt   05/31/98
Carroll Degenhard   01/19/98
Daniel A. Boniarski, Jr.   03/25/98
Daniel Baginski   04/21/98
Donald Higgins   03/07/98
Edward J. Mezewski   02/05/98
Edward Weichert   01/16/98
Edwin L. Lawrence  12/3/98
Francis Earhardt   09/11/98
Frank J. Kunkoski   7/24/98
Frank W. Machovec  09/16/98
George Cook   07/26/98
Henry A. Kachnowich   09/29/98
Howard Schisler  07/30/98
James L. Nugent    05/07/98
James Santmyer    05/20/98
James W. Kline   06/26/98
James Wells   12/23/98
John Carberry   06/13/98
John H. Buenger  12/4/98
John Haag    05/29/98
John Heddinger   07/01/98
John L. Palmere    04/11/98
John M. Murphy   07/04/98
John Simms  07/26/98
John Stocker    04/25/98
John Whitehill   05/13/98
John Younger, Jr.   11/07/98
Joseph Folio, Sr.   05/03/98
Joseph Garrity   12/30/98
Joseph Kaczmarek, Jr.   07/08/98
Kenneth L. Burke   04/12/98
Leroy Dedmon   06/09/98
Maurice Dungan   01/11/98
Michael Rogich   07/14/98
Milton Ballantine  10/26/98
Murrill J. Murray  09/20/98
Oliver Thomas Murdock   11/27/98
Owen Smallwood  09/05/98
Ralph Hudson  11/30/98
Robert C. Ashmun  12/9/98
Scottie D. Mcdonald   09/06/98
Stanley Heddings    03/19/98
Starkie M. Lewis   06/01/98
Thomas Sullivan   12/17/98
Victor Gerczak  12/24/98
Wilbur C. Miller   02/14/98
William Armstrong   08/28/98
William Curry    07/05/98
William Honeycutt   06/98
William Pinkerton, Iii   07/23/98
William Scott  08/09/1998

1997
Arthur L. Butler   10/07/97
Charles Wancowicz   01/22/97
Cleo Hord   01/09/97
Edmund Welsh   07/31/97
Edward Dunn, Sr.  05/02/97
Francis Elder   05/31/97
Francis Ruppert   04/25/97
Herman Earle   02/03/97
Ivory C. Byrd, Sr.  05/19/97
James Grace   09/12/97
James T. Starr   02/08/97
James W. Nelson, Jr.   01/11/97
John E. Brewster   04/17/97
John Scales  08/05/97
Joseph B. Cole  07/20/97
Joseph S. Kimmel   01/24/97
Kenneth Hornberger   04/18/97
Leo Surdyka   03/03/97
Lewis J. O'neal   06/26/97
Marion J. Buchacz  08/04/97
Ned Schleig  05/20/97
Raymond Brill   02/10/97
Raymond Wratchford   10/27/97
Richard Catania  12/09/97
Robert Hall, Sr.   07/03/97
Theodore H. Johnson, Jr.   12/03/97
Thomas A. Haber  06/15/97
Thomas A. Mason  09/19/97
Thomas C. Green  11/19/97
Thomas Shillenn   01/24/97
William Ghant  03/19/97

1996
Arden G. Livingston  04/18/96
Bernard Hartlove  04/25/96
Carlton Frazier, Sr.  12/31/96
Frank Trcka   02/17/96
George Gilbert   02/28/96
Gus A. Drakos   10/21/96
Henry Eckstorm   07/12/96
Henry Zukowski   09/12/96
Howard Stansbury  12/31/96
James B. Mills   02/14/96
James G. Joyce  12/01/96
James Harris   02/13/96
James L. Mcmasters  04/03/96
John Sewell   08/15/1996
Joseph B. Bisson 06/14/96
Joseph J. Jones   01/14/96
Kenneth Price Johnson  10/12/96
Leroy Dillow  12/13/96
Matthew Rudolph  09/21/96
Nelson F. Mckenna   09/06/96
Philip Buratt 06/27/96
Philip Farace   02/29/96
Robert Ritter, Jr.   01/01/96
Stephen Ches, Jr.   03/07/96
Walter D. Stahl 04/30/96
William Craig   09/28/96

1995
Adolph A. Bucci   02/10/95
Albert Rozanski   12/22/95
Bernard Digelman   08/06/95
Carl Reichelt   06/01/95
Douglas Fulton  07/23/95
Earl Potter   04/22/95
Edmund J. Panowicz  02/11/95
Gordon Derrenberger  06/25/95
James Finn   02/25/95
John Grams    08/19/95
John J. Lorme   10/16/95
John P. Donohue  06/24/95
Joseph Engle    10/30/95
Joseph Porter   07/24/95
Joseph Reynolds   03/14/95
Leroy Hayden   08/20/95
Michael Batson 11/01/95
Nicholas Latanishen   04/20/95
Oliver L. Beck   10/24/95
Paul High   01/27/95
Paul Serio, Sr.   05/02/1995
Robert Anderson   11/05/95
Robert B. Leutbecher   12/13/95
Roberta Dehuff   11/29/95
Ronald M. Berends  01/8/95
Stanley L. Kusak  09/30/95
Terry Tiell   07/14/95
Thomas Cassidy  07/05/95
Thomas Sears   03/08/1995
Timothy Patterson   12/02/95
William Derrenberger  07/01/95

1994
Allen Griffin, Jr.  06/27/94
Charles Simonsen  06/08/1994
Connie Opolko, Jr,  11/06/94
Cortez Pickering   09/27/94
Daniel Siegert, Sr.  06/29/94
Earl C. Mathias, Jr.   01/31/94
Edward F. Mccarron   08/04/94
Francis Coll   08/13/94
Francis N. May  12/08/94
Frederick J. Oster   10/14/94
George Schwallenberg  02/07/94
Henry T. Beaudet  05/21/94
James Aquilla  07/11/94
James Uhlik   12/03/94
John B. Smith, Sr.   08/25/94
John Decker  03/24/94
John Downey   11/22/94
John Preis   02/04/94
Joseph Flynn  08/01/94
Joseph Heming   02/03/94
Joseph Jennings   10/10/94
Leon Gray  05/28/94
Leon Paone  05/25/94
Mary Dawson   01/18/94
Michael J. Beere  9/20/94
Nathan R. Lamoreaux   11/29/94
Norbert Wiegard  12/24/94
Norman Weber  06/05/94
Olwine Craig   05/17/94
Paul S. Mcmeekin  12/03/94
Robert L. Leeman   02/01/94
Stanley A. Kalwa  12/19/94
Theodore A. Miller, Sr.   10/07/94
Theodore J, Brown, Jr.   09/26/94
Vincent Kozieracki   08/05/94
Walter R. Mina, Jr.  08/11/94
Wilbur Baldwin   09/06/94
William M. Thieman   04/04/94
William Raivel   11/07/94
William T. Mccarthy  06/12/94

1993
Albert Pessagno   06/09/93
Anthony A. Imbrogulio  12/30/93
Charles Gallagher   11/30/93
Edward F. Blaney   09/22/93
Edward L. Bond, Jr.    02/93
Edward Ruby   12/06/93
Edward Schmaus   04/07/93
Frederick A. Nitch    02/01/93
Gregory A. Panowicz, Sr.   12/30/93
Jacob E. Meyers   04/11/93
James Custis    07/12/1993
James Hallameyer   10/05/93
James Saunders   11/13/93
John Hill   04/14/93
John T. Johnson    03/20/93
Joseph A. Mcmann   04/17/93
Joseph Campanaro   05/28/93
Joseph G. Michael  09/27/93
Joseph S. Knauer  12/23/93
Joseph Tomshack   06/16/93
Leonard Houck    01/93
Lola Pauline Newberger   06/27/93
Marion W. Bennett   01/93
Michael Heaps   08/14/93
Ronald Clark   06/15/93
William L. Burch    01/18/93

1992
Edward Sprucebank   04/10/92
Henry F. Long    11/08/92
Herbert E. Airey   12/04/92
Howard T. Bright   04/02/92
James E. Smith    08/16/92
James Hill  01/92
James Stromberg   03/19/92
John A. Betz, Sr.    04/07/92
John C. Nagle    10/20/92
Joseph B. Mullin   02/25/92
Julius Richburg   01/09/92
Martin Ries, Sr.    01/26/92
Milton Freund, Sr.   07/03/92
Nathaniel Ponder   01/92
Paul Reinsfelder  01/07/92
Richard Arnold   11/03/92
Robert Ross    06/06/92
William Dickerson   10/11/92

1991
Albert Doda  10/25/91
Anthony M. Jarowski   11/04/91
Casmir J. Kielek   11/30/91
Edward Yanchoris  02/03/91
Frank H. Mills, Jr.  05/11/91
Frank Reitterer  01/02/91
George F. Hoyt   11/18/91
George Schnabel  03/18/91
George W. Bowen   11/13/91
Herbert Armstrong 04/09/91
Howard A. Mueller  11/08/91
Hugh Bannon  01/12/91
James D. Buckmaster, Jr.  07/07/91
James W. Lister  07/15/91
Milton N. Bruchey  06/10/91
Raymond Ratcliffe  04/16/91
Richard Ayers  03/11/91
William Hughes  03/18/91
William R. Kackritz  12/14/91

1990
Albert T. Lobos  3/28/90
Carmelo Rizzo  08/09/90
Cecil Patterson  01/20/90
Clarence Roy  07/90
Edmund A. Lesniewski  7/20/90
Edward Tilghman  06/01/90
Elmer Moore, Sr.  08/24/90
Francis R. Kavanaugh  06/10/90
Frederick H. Krueger  11/26/90
George M. Paulus  06/7/90
Gerald Gebhart  07/28/90
John Lingner  06/19/90
John Robertson 12/90
John Schwartz  11/25/90
Leroy D. Kidwell  05/16/90
Melvin Gallion, Sr.  01/17/90
Patrick Fitzpatrick  05/09/90
Paul Dever  06/29/90
Raymond Snyder  07/29/90
Thomas Baranski  05/30/90
William Fogarty  09/22/90
William T. Bell   2/21/90 
William F Kincaid 11/12/90
Edward William Domzalski 1990

1989
Albert Greaver  03/19/89
Albert Wilkens 11/21/89
Calvin K. Mccleese  03/05/89
Charles E. Newberry  03/13/89
Dominic J. Matteo  01/22/89
Donald Hranicka   03/29/89
Edward S. Mccarthy  09/15/89
Frederick Moog  12/20/89
Joseph Wondolowski   10/17/89
Julius Lewandowski  03/15/89
Lamar Schleig  12/17/89
Norman B. Mike   09/08/89
Norman Taylor  05/07/89
Randall D. Mallon  07/27/89
Raymond L. Klein  05/15/89
Waring “Tex” Henderson  06/15/89

1988
Ernest Anacker  04/22/88
John C. Mcmanus   12/10/88
Joseph C. Brown  11/14/88
Salvatore Tiburzi   03/07/88
William C. Mack  05/12/88
Harry Spahn, Sr. 1988

1987
Benedict A. Maciejlzyk  08/17/87
Charles P. Mckenzie  08/01/87
Charles Von Nordeck   06/87
George J. Brutsche, Jr.  03/16/87
John A. Brazil   12/05/87
Leroy Moody  11/23/87
Nicholas Woren   05/87
Paul Zechman   08/87
William W. Mullineaux  03/10/87

1986
Bobby Jones  12/86
Samuel Venturella 5/86
Carl D. Mckinney  12/86
Charles L. Orth  12/03/86
Donald H. Miller  12/86

1985
Robert H. Brown  11/13/85

1984
George J. Markelonis   12/1980
Paul C. Kriewald  05/84

Unknown Date Of Death   
Alan Cross
Alex Banyas
Arthur Harris
Barry Lee
Charles Cookus
Charles Harold
David T. Cookus
Donald Hughes
Edward Eunick
Frank Cicero
Frederick A. Kestler, Jr.
Frederick P. Buckmaster
George W. Miller
Gilbert Schoff
Harry Gross
Henry Edwards
Henry Schmidt
Hugh Danner
James Granger
John R. Jones
Lawrence Hughes
Leroy Williams
Paul Coster
Gilbert Schoff
Reginald Gooden
Richard B. Martin
Robert H. Jenkins
Robert Wirth
Stanley Dziewulski
Vernon Crispens
Vincent Downey
Walter Cody

~1979~ 

Officer Elton Dougherty

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: January 1979 

Officer Harry Horz

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section

Date of death: January 12, 1979 

Lineman Gordon Glatzel

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division

Date of death: January 19, 1979 

Officer William E. Milholland

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: February 18, 1979 

Officer John H. Spencer

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: March 2, 1979 

Sergeant Joseph G. Coram

Formerly Assigned: N/A

Date of death: March 3, 1979 

Officer Joseph K. Carey

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: March 1979 

Officer John Cossentino

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit

Date of death: April 8, 1979 

Sergeant Wilbert Sudmeier

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: April 16, 1979 

Officer Edwin C. Carter

Formerly Assigned: Applicant Investigation

Date of death: May 25, 1979 

Officer Pearce Canby

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: June 2, 1979 

Officer Otto Greul

Formerly Assigned Traffic Division:

Date of death: June 19, 1979 

Officer Emory B. Warfield

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: June 25, 1979 

Sergeant Luther K. Hartman

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: June 25, 1979 

Officer John P. Dougherty

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: June 27, 1979 

Officer Walter N. Faulkner, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: July 10, 1979 

Officer John Mox

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: July 26, 1979 

Officer Eugene Johnson

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: August 1, 1979 

Officer Daniel Carroll

Community Services Division

Date of death: August 13, 1979 

Officer Leo Raymond Kowalewski

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: August 15, 1979 

Officer William D. Albers

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Line of Duty Death: August 19, 1979 

Officer William J. Biglen

Formerly Assigned: Chief of Patrol’s Office

Date of death: September 1, 1979 

Officer Stephen Czapski

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District

Date of death: September 6, 1979 

Officer Harry Magaha

Formerly Assigned: Printing Unit

Date of death: September 13, 1979 

Sergeant Anthony Wayekunas

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District

Date of death: September 14, 1979 

Lieutenant Carlton H. Manuel

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D.

Date of death: August 28,1979 

Officer Herman Talbot

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: September 19, 1979 

Officer Franklin J. (Barney) Weaver

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: September 27, 1979 

Officer John P. Scott

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: September 27, 1979 

Officer Charles L. Gatch

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division

Date of death: October 8, 1979 

Officer Phillip L. Gowl

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: October 23, 1979 

Officer Charles F. Rout, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: western District

Date of death: October 31, 1979 

~1978~ 

Head Clerk Agatha Wilburn

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division

Date of death: January 14, 1978 

Captain Joseph A. Baroch

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: January 17, 1978 

Officer Milton Arczynski

Formerly Assigned: Chief of Patrol’s Office

Date of death: January 22, 1978 

Officer John T. Childs

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division

Date of death: February 7, 1978 

Chauffeur John M. Sibol

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: February 15, 1978 

Officer Edgar J. Rumpf

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Line of Duty Death: February 16, 1978 

Officer Howard W. Silk

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: February 17, 1978 

Officer Clarence Stewart

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: February 21, 1978 

Detective Charles H. Scroggs

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Auto Theft

Date of death: February 23, 1978 

Lieutenant Clarence Wehage

Formerly Assigned: Old Northeast District

Date of death: February 23, 1978 

Officer Joseph J. Palmere, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit

Date of death: March 3, 1978 

Officer James C. Shipley

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: April 1978 

Officer Frederick H. Beafeld

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: April 4, 1978 

Officer Joseph A. Herget

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: April 7, 1978 

Sergeant Robert J. Barlow

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: April 23, 1978 

Officer Harry E. Bichy

Formerly Assigned: Southern District/Communications Division

Date of death: May 9, 1978 

Crossing Guard Thelma Willey

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: May 31, 1978 

Officer Donald Jarrett

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: June 7, 1978 

Officer Joseph A. Meehan

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic

Date of death: June 10, 1978 

Officer Bernard A. Zilinski

Formerly Assigned: E & T

Date of death: June 10, 1978 

Sergeant Stanley Nicodem

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: June 19, 1978 

Officer Frederick Fitzberger

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District

Date of death: July 6, 1978 

Computer Operator Ernestine Williams

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division

Date of death: July 6, 1978 

Lieutenant Nickolas Cortezl

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: July 9, 1978 

Sergeant Albert Fortenbaugh

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: August 2, 1978 

Officer Richard Jones

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: August 5, 1978 

Sergeant Robert Weaver

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Homicide

Date of death: August 7, 1978 

Sergeant Earl Staples

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: August 9, 1978 

Officer William E. Harrison

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit

Date of death: August 10, 1978 

Officer Charles M. Smith

Formerly Assigned: Purchasing Supply Room

Date of death: September 2, 1978 

Officer Henry F. Wenger

Formerly Assigned: HQ.

Date of death: September 16, 1978 

Lieutenant Stephen Plowman

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: September 21, 1978 

Lieutenant Andrew A. Aldon

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: September 26, 1978 

Officer William Ashford

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: October 3, 1978 

Officer Charles Rada

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: October 4, 1978 

Sergeant John W. McKenna

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: October 16, 1978 

Officer Dennis Elkins

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: October 24, 1978 

Officer Nelson F. Bell

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Line of Duty Death: October 27, 1978 

Officer Frank J. Zaruba

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: November 1, 1978 

Clerk Joseph W. Welzant

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: November 6, 1978 

Sergeant Daniel A. Boniarski

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: November 6, 1978 

Sergeant William G. Windham

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: November 16, 1978 

Officer William F. Weiss

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: November 18, 1978 

Officer Walter Kraska

Formerly Assigned: E.C.U.

Date of death: November 21, 1978 

Officer John Golebieski

Formerly Assigned: Tactical/Building Security

Date of death: November 22, 1978 

Officer Henry V. Mitchem

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: November 22, 1978 

~1977~ 

Officer Gerald Junk

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: January 9, 1977 

Inspector Julian I. Forrest

Formerly Assigned: HQ.

Date of death: January 26, 1977 

Officer William Fisher

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: February 2, 1977 

Sergeant Melvin Montgomery

Formerly Assigned: Northern District

Date of death: February 5, 1977 

Officer Charles Jones

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section

Date of death: February 6, 1977 

Officer Benjamin Stickell

Formerly Assigned: Northeast Annex

Date of death: February 6, 1977 

Sergeant Herman Zaras

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District

Date of death: February 12, 1977 

Officer Dennis Sweren

Formerly Assigned: Traffic February 12, 1977

Date of death: February 12, 1977 

Officer Henry J. Yockel

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: February 17, 1977 

Sergeant Joseph H. Mcanally

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street

Date of death: February 19, 1977 

Officer Harry J. Silk

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: February 19, 1977 

Sergeant James W. DeVoe

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: February 24, 1977 

Officer John J. Zeiler

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: February 25, 1977 

Sergeant Maurice Clifton

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: March 28, 1977 

Officer John J. Lemmon

Formerly Assigned: Communication Division

Date of death: April 4, 1977 

Officer Edward Luers

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: April 7, 1977 

Sergeant Louis Tirabassi

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: April 16, 1977 

Sergeant Harry L. Powers

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: April 21, 1977 

Lieutenant Francis M. Gutierrez

Formerly Assigned: Property Division

Date of death: April 26, 1977 

Charwoman Henrietta McNeir

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: May 11, 1977 

Officer Robert E. Crispens

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division

Date of death: May 11, 1977 

Matron Marion Jenkins

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street

Date of death: May 12, 1977 

Officer Thomas Garvey

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: May 13, 1977 

Lieutenant George Courtney

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District

Date of death: May 16, 1977 

Chauffeur Edward G. Hubbard

Formerly Assigned: Property Division

Date of death: May 22, 1977 

Lieutenant Leo F. Duffy

Formerly Assigned: B of I

Date of death: May 26, 1977 

Emergency Call Clerk Gussie Woodard

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division

Date of death: June 27, 1977 

Officer John Vernon Alford

Formerly Assigned: Evidence Control Unit

Date of death: July 25, 1977 

Officer Thomas M. Reese

Formerly Assigned: Northwest Annex

Date of death: July 25, 1977 

Detective Lester N. Messner

Formerly Assigned: B of I

Date of death: August 5, 1977 

Officer William B. Huster

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: August 14, 1977 

Officer John J. Young

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: August 24, 1977 

Sergeant Kasper L. Utz

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District

Date of death: September 9, 1977 

Officer Edo Liberatore

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: September 24, 1977 

Officer George W. Walper

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: October 5, 1977 

Officer Richard Ellwood, Sr.

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: October 5, 1977 

Officer Albert Ehmling

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District

Date of death: October 15, 1977 

Officer James A. Myers

Formerly Assigned: Central District

Date of death: October 18, 1977 

Captain J. Gould Rollins

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division

Date of death: November 4, 1977 

Major Norman Schleigh

Formerly Assigned: E & T

Date of death: November 5, 1977 

Crossing Guard Lana Lee Milland

Formerly Assigned: N/A

Date of death: November 7, 1977 

Captain Frederick Dunn

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division

Date of death: November 20, 1977 

Senior Clerk Typist Robert E. Tevis

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District

Date of death: November 16, 1977 

Officer Louis Danna

Formerly Assigned: Western District

Date of death: December 11, 1977 

Officer Robert J. Schwinn

Formerly Assigned: Southern District

Date of death: December 27, 1977 

~1976~ 

Officer Raymond A. Sylvester 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 17, 1976 

Officer Harold R. Weitzman 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: January 20, 1976 

Officer Paul Centuelli 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: February 3, 1976 

Officer Norman Kelly 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: February 15, 1976 

Officer Joseph Pocta 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 15, 1976 

Officer Elwood Bozman 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: February 26, 1976 

Officer Harold Keil 

Formerly Assigned: Old Police Services Desk 

Date of death: February 26, 1976 

Officer William M. Daily 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 7, 1976 

Officer William H. Shook 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: March 12, 1976 

Officer Leonard Blum 

Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 13, 1976 

Officer William A. Pich 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: April 6, 1976 

Officer Sterling G. Chance 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: April 14, 1976 

Officer Jimmy D. Halcomb 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Line of Duty Death: April 16, 1976 

Lieutenant Frank Schmidt 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: April 17, 1976 

Lieutenant Paul Aires 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 28, 1976 

Sergeant Maurice F. Gorman 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 28, 1976 

Lieutenant James E. Mason 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street 

Date of death: May 10, 1976 

Crossing Guard Margaret Scheidt 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: May 24, 1976 

Officer Charles W. Carter 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: June 4, 1976 

Sergeant Howard E. Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 4, 1976 

Officer Marion Melvin Morawski 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: June 16, 1976 

Officer Harry R. Randle 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: June 20, 1976 

Officer William Edward Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Applicant Investigation Unit 

Date of death: June 25, 1976 

Sergeant Joseph Litz 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: July 20, 1976 

Officer Walter Stachowski 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: July 25, 1976 

Officer Francis M. Quinn, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: July 26, 1976 

Officer Sherman Lee Pruit 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division/Mounted 

Date of death: August 1, 1976 

Sergeant Frank Siemanski 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: August 1, 1976 

Officer Elmer Hefner 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Traffic Division 

Date of death: August 9, 1976 

Clerk Rosalie Beal 

Formerly Assigned Central Records Division: 

Date of death: August 15, 1976 

Officer Charles Block 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: August 19, 1976 

Press Operator Thomas T. Bragg 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: August 27, 1976 

Sergeant William B. Clayton 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 8, 1976 

Officer Frederick C. Wilson, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: I.S.D/Traffic 

Date of death: October 8, 1976 

Officer C.J. Friers 

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District 

Date of death: October 9, 1976 

Officer Henry J. Hagey, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Community Services 

Date of death: October 18, 1976 

Officer William J. Carr 

Formerly Assigned: Identification Section 

Date of death: October 21, 1976 

Captain Vincent Giardina 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: October 30, 1976 

Lieutenant Dorsey Baldwin 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District/Tactical 

Date of death: November 12, 1976 

Officer George Goetzke 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 25, 1976 

Officer Walter F. Welsh 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street 

Date of death: November 23, 1976 

Officer George J. Sykes 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 10, 1976 

Sergeant Frank Bianca 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 21, 1976 

~1975~ 

Officer Alfred Gardner 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street/Youth Division 

Date of death: January 8, 1975 

Officer Vincent L. Simmons, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Assistant to Commissioner Hepburn 

Date of death: January 18, 1975 

Sergeant William L. Wortman 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 20, 1975 

Emergency Call Clerk Frances Sheets 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 21, 1975 

Sergeant Earl Cosden 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 22, 1975 

Sergeant Robert E. Johnson 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: February 23, 1975 

Officer Harry Schofield 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division/Mounted 

Date of death: February 23, 1975 

Officer Herbert C. Glover 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 28, 1975 

Officer Anselm A. Konitzer 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 6, 1975 

Sergeant Charles T. Ploch 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: March 10, 1975 

Officer John E. Sinnott 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 15, 1975 

Laborer Saverio Baglinoni 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Motor Section 

Date of death: April 3, 1975 

Officer Thomas F. Schamburg 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: April 7, 1975 

Officer Albert W. Buddenbohn 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 11, 1975 

Sergeant Murrel Starkey 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 24, 1975 

Detective Charles Fischbach 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Homicide 

Date of death: May 6, 1975 

Officer Tracey Bedsworth 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Division 

Date of death: May 11, 1975 

Captain Leroy J. Kues 

Formerly Assigned: Services Division 

Date of death: May 14, 1975 

Officer Frank Wolski 

Assigned: Central District  

Date of death: May 29, 1975 

Crossing Guard Imma E. Lechliter (Scott) 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: June 1, 1975 

Officer Burnhardt Dungan 

Formerly Assigned: Tactical/K9 

Date of death: June 2, 1975 

Officer Jerome E. Kline 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: June 6, 1975 

Officer Edward Stower 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Rackets Division 

Date of death: June 8, 1975 

Officer Howard Mulligan 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 19, 1975 

Administrative Assistant Alice G. Donegan 

Formerly Assigned: Police Commissioner’s Office 

Date of death: July 5, 1975 

Officer William Hawkins 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: July 12, 1975 

Paul A. Karaskavicz (Civilian) 

Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: July 15, 1975 

Officer Andrew H. Fischer 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: July 15, 1975 

Captain Gordon G. Gaeng 

Formerly Assigned: Office of Chief Of Patrol 

Date of death: July 24, 1975 

Lieutenant William J. Flynn 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./B of I 

Date of death: August 4, 1975 

Sergeant William G. Adams 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: August 15, 1975 

Officer James J. Hagen, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: August 23, 1975 

Officer John B. Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 23, 1975 

Officer Charles Neill 

Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 25, 1975 

Emergency Call Clerk John E. Holthaus 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: August 26, 1975 

Sergeant Joseph M. Fisher 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: August 27, 1975 

Officer Claude F. Waddill 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: September 2, 1975 

Dr. Louis J. Kolodner 

Assigned: Medical Section 

Date of death: September 9, 1975 

Sergeant Edward J. Cook 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: September 11, 1975 

Sergeant John P. Butner 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 12, 1975 

Officer Edward S. Sherman 

Assigned: Southwest District 

Line of Duty Death: September 13, 1975 

Officer Alex J. McDonald 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 15, 1975 

Clerk Jeanette Fox 

Formerly Assigned: Motor Pool 

Date of death: September 21, 1975 

Supervisor William J. Harvey 

Formerly Assigned: Fiscal Affairs 

Date of death: October 1, 1975 

Officer Joseph W. Brooks, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Crime Lab 

Date of death: October 8, 1975 

Sergeant Henry O. Grimm  

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: October 12, 1975 

Sergeant August F. Buettner 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 14, 1975 

Lieutenant John R. Padgett 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: October 18, 1975 

Officer John Gray 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: October 23, 1975 

Sergeant Lester E. Stein 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: November 6, 1975 

Sergeant John M. Dippel 

Formerly Assigned: Old Police Services Desk 

Date of death: December 8, 1975 

Officer Oliver Lowman 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 19, 1975 

~1974~ 

Officer Walter H. Heiderman 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 1, 1974 

Officer Henry Mautner 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: January 8, 1974 

Officer John F. Kapraun 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: March 21, 1974 

Sergeant Henry P Pleiss 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic 

Date of death: April 2, 1974 

Lieutenant Robert Cohen 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: March 11, 1974 

Officer Frank W. Whitby 

Assigned: Eastern District 

Line of Duty Death May 5, 1974 

Sergeant William W. Rhodes 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: May 9, 1974 

Officer John Scheurman 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: May 15, 1974 

Officer John A. Minar 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 18, 1974 

Officer Martin Wunder 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: May 31, 1974 

Lieutenant Edward A. Shanahan 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: June 3, 1974 

Officer John F. Hesson 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: June 10, 1974 

Officer John Thierauf 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: June 28, 1974 

Detective James Batterden 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: July 10, 1974 

Officer Hiram J. Carson 

Formerly Assigned: July 20, 1974 

Date of death: July 20, 1974 

Sergeant Frank J. Witt 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: July 23, 1974 

Sergeant Kenneth V. O’Connor 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: July 29, 1974 

Lieutenant Otis Bradley 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: July 30, 1974 

Detective Sergeant Frank W. Grunder 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./ Escape & Apprehension 

Line of Duty Death: August 1, 1974 

Officer Milton Spell 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Line of Duty Death: August 15, 1974 

Civilian Employee William Bandell 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Old Frederick St. Repair 

Date of death: August 17, 1974 

Captain Lawrence Kerr 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: August 18, 1974 

Officer John C. Mohr 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 26, 1974 

Crossing Guard Gloria B. Amy 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 27, 1974 

Sergeant Carroll R. Lowman 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 28, 1974 

Lieutenant William L. Link 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 30, 1974 

Officer Peter T. Garvin 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 31, 1974 

Lieutenant George A. Hayward 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 6, 1974 

Captain Aloysius Winters 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: September 24, 1974 

Officer Augustus A. Sader 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 23, 1974 

Sergeant Francis Jasinski 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1974 

Detective Sam Smith 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Fugitive 

Date of death: October 25, 1974 

Officer William L. Ray 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: November 14, 1974 

Sergeant James Burlage 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: November 24, 1974 

Sergeant James Verderamo 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: November 24, 1974 

Officer George W. Gardner 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 10, 1974 

Officer Martin J. Greiner 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Line of Duty Death: December 10, 1974 

Officer John H. Campbell 

Formerly Assigned: Tactical Section 

Date of death: December 15, 1974 

Officer Bernard J. Jenkins 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: December 16, 1974 

Lieutenant Rudolph C.R. Wilkins 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 16, 1974 

Officer Charles B. Walas 

Formerly Assigned: Tactical/Marine Unit 

Date of death: December 19, 1974 

Officer McKinnley J. Johnson 

Formerly Assigned: Property/Auto Service Attendant 

Date of death: December 25, 1974 

Officer George Rembold  

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: December 27, 1974 

~ 1973~ 

Officer George D. Blaney 

Formerly Assigned: Maintenance Department 

Date of death: January 1, 1973 

Officer Francis R. Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: January 19, 1973 

Officer Richard J. Kaniecki 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: January 30, 1973 

Officer Edwin Yukas 

Formerly Assigned: Auto-Garage Repair 

Date of death: February 16, 1973 

Officer Edward J. Wolker 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: March 3, 1973 

Officer Robert Maynard Hurley 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: March 28, 1973 

Sergeant Joseph C. Hajek 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: March 31, 1973 

Officer William A. Conner 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: April 2, 1973 

Officer Norman Frederick Buchman 

Assigned: Northwest District 

Line of Duty Death: April 6, 1973 

Meter Maid Augusta M. Myers 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: April 9, 1973 

Officer Vernon D. Nicklas 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: April 13, 1973 

Officer Robert W. Gain 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 23, 1973 

Officer Paul Vernon Garrett 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 23, 1973 

Officer Raymond C. Hoffman 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: May 29, 1973 

Officer William J. Ellinghaus 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: May 30, 1973 

Detective Raymond J. Novak 

Formerly Assigned: Central District/Pawn Shop Unit 

Date of death: May 31, 1973 

Detective Donald Raley 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Homicide Unit 

Date of death: June 2, 1973 

Officer Harry J Bayne 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 16, 1973 

Officer James M. Rawlings 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: June 18, 1973 

Officer William H. Johnson 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: June 30, 1973 

Sergeant Elmer T. Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Police Commissioner’s Office 

Date of death: July 8, 1973 

Officer William N Karn 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 14, 1973 

Sergeant Raymond A. Holden 

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section 

Date of death: July 19, 1973 

Officer Edwin Savage 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: July 19, 1973 

Officer John McCormick 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: July 29, 1973 

Officer George A. Harvey 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: July 31, 1973 

Officer John E. Robertson 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 4, 1973 

Crossing Guard Norma V. Capers 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 11, 1973 

Officer George T. Smith 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 18, 1973 

Officer Charles Adams 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 31, 1973 

Sergeant Daniel H. Crowley 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest Annex 

Date of death: September 3, 1973 

Officer George P. Phebus 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: September 9, 1973 

Officer John N. Ruth 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: September 10, 1973 

Officer John McDonald 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Maintenance Division 

Date of death: September 20, 1973 

Officer William D. Sparrow 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: September 26, 1973 

Sergeant Henry W. Cochran 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 27, 1973 

Sergeant George Schlipper 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: October 14, 1973 

Sergeant Charles Alexander 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1973 

Sergeant Charles Gerhold 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted Unit 

Date of death: October 31, 1973 

Officer Paul R. Oronson, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section 

Date of death: November 16, 1973 

Administrative Assistant Charles Rill 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District  

Date of death: November 18, 1973 

Officer John Lynch 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District  

Date of death: November 18, 1973 

Sergeant Thomas H.E. Riley 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: November 24, 1973 

Clerk Frederick Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Fiscal Affairs 

Date of death: November 24, 1973 

Chief Clerk William Swinson 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: November 26, 1973 

Detective Wiley M. Owens, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: I.S.D. 

Date of death: December 1, 1973 

Officer Joseph Wisbeck 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: December 15, 1973 

Officer Luther E. Jones 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: December 19, 1973 

Officer Virgil H. Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 19, 1973 

Officer Leroy Crosland 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 23, 1973 

Sergeant William J. Logue 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: December 26, 1973 

~1972~ 

Officer Edward P. Kirby 

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District 

Date of death: January 12, 1972 

Emergency Call Clerk Norman F. Stever 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: January 15, 1972 

Lieutenant Henry J. Knecht 

Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 5, 1972 

Chauffeur Frank H. Warns 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: February 6, 1972 

Officer Wilbur T. Holt 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: February 15, 1972 

Officer Howard B. Young 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: January 21, 1972 

Officer Joseph C. O’Melia 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: February 23, 1972 

Sergeant Howard J. Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: February 29, 1972 

Officer John Uhler 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 1, 1972 

Sergeant Daniel Will 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: March 6, 1972 

Crossing Guard Emmyl L. Wasserman 

Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 7, 1972 

Officer Bernard J. Brooks 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: March 24, 1972 

Lieutenant Edward J. Zeck 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: April 2, 1972 

Sergeant Milton A. Kniese 

Formerly Assigned:  

Date of death: April 3, 1972 

Lieutenant Otto A. Urban 

Formerly Assigned: Education & Training Division 

Date of death: May 12, 1972 

Officer Joseph Thompson 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: May 21, 1972 

Officer Frank V. Janos 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 22, 1972 

Officer Andrew W. Adamski 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: May 23, 1972 

Officer William Z. Gray 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: May 23, 1972 

Officer Frank Novotny 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: June 2, 1972 

Officer Jesssie Hood 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: June 15, 1972 

Officer Bernard Murphy 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: August 3, 1972 

Emergency Call Clerk William Urban 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: August 6, 1972 

Chief Inspector Oscar L. Lusby 

Formerly Assigned: HQ. 

Date of death: August 10, 1972 

Officer John J. Wiley 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 11, 1972 

Officer Frederick Krueger 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: August 26, 1972 

Lieutenant William J. Klump 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: September 28, 1972 

Officer Ellwood L. Brown 

Formerly Assigned: Applicant Investigation Division 

Date of death: September 29, 1972 

Officer Christian Brix 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: October 8, 1972 

Crossing Guard Dolly Andrews 

Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: October 17, 1972 

Supervisor Of Purchases Joseph Piller 

Formerly Assigned: Fiscal Affairs Division 

Date of death: November 11, 1972 

Sergeant Louis J. Mitchell 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: November 17, 1972 

Officer John H. Schmitt 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 1, 1972 

Officer Edward J. Budacz 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 6, 1972 

Sergeant Philip Jachelski 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Enforcement 

Date of death: December 9, 1972 

Officer William D. Kelly 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: December 18, 1972 

Officer Harry W. Hinkle 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: December 21, 1972 

Officer Andrew Valenza 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: December 28, 1972 

~1971~ 

Sergeant Charles Trainor 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Investigation 

Date of death: January 18, 1971 

Officer George W. Flynn 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: February 5, 1971 

Officer William O. Shaffrey 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: February 21, 1971 

Sergeant Edward Langletti 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: February 22, 1971 

Officer Charles Faulkner 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: March 3, 1971 

Detective Joseph J. Mantegna 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: March 13, 1971 

Sergeant Arthur J. Nelson 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: March 14, 1971 

Officer Wilbert O. Rotten 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division  

Date of death: March 2, 1971 

Officer William F. Schneeman 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 18, 1971 

Sergeant Frank J. Machovec 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 26, 1971 

Sergeant Joseph M. Carney 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: May 1, 1971 

Officer William F. Monaghan 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic 

Date of death: May 2, 1971 

Officer Samuel Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District  

Date of death: May 6, 1971 

Dr. Edward A Flanigan 

Formerly Assigned: Medical Section District 1 

Date of death: May 11, 1971 

Officer William R. Hightower 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: May 13, 1971 

Sergeant Anthony Kircher 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: May 17, 1971 

Detective Charles W. Mulligan 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D./Fugitive 

Date of death: May 23, 1971 

Officer William J. Gill 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: May 25, 1971 

Chauffeur Raymond A. Slonaker 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: May 26, 1971 

K-9 Dog "Shane" 

Assigned: K9 Unit/Handler Off. David Stuller 

Line of Duty Death: June 1971 

Lieutenant Elvin H. Smedberg 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: June 1, 1971 

Officer Carl Perteson 

Assigned: Central District  

Line of Duty Death June 1, 1971 

Officer Robert Moscirella 

Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 9, 1971 

Officer George E. Brooks 

Formerly Assigned: Central district 

Date of death: June 17, 1971 

Officer Henry Plunkett 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: June 19, 1971 

Officer Joseph M. Bruchey 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: July 6, 1971 

Officer Eric Rodgers 

Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: July 6, 1971 

Officer Walter W. Witkowski 

Formerly Assigned: Old Pine Street 

Date of death: July 8, 1971 

Officer John J. Blume 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 11, 1971 

Officer Edwin J. Humphreys 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 15, 1971 

Dr. E. Irvin Neserke (Veterinarian) 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic/Mounted 

Date of death: July 15, 1971 

Officer Emil Elderskirch 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: July 17, 1971 

Officer Henry G. Scales 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: July 24, 1971 

Officer Leo J. Hess 

Formerly Assigned: Central District  

Date of death: July 28, 1971 

Lieutenant Martin Webb 

Assigned: Southern District 

Line of Duty Death August 3, 1971 

Officer Ferdinard Struckrath 

Formerly Assigned: Casual Section 

Date of death: August 8, 1971 

Sergeant George Joseph Louis, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic 

Date of death: August 9, 1971 

Officer Thomas E. Collins 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: August 10, 1971 

Sergeant Joseph G. Schrami 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: August 16, 1971 

Lieutenant Joseph J. Byrne 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: August 19, 1971  

Sergeant John McGinnis 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: September 2, 1971 

Officer Leo Adam Fischer 

Formerly Assigned: Communications Division 

Date of death: September 4,1971 

Detective Edgar Sullers, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: September 1971 

Officer Andrew Moynihan 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 22, 1971 

Officer Thomas F. Steinaker 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: September 23, 1971 

Sergeant Thomas F. Ford 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: October 4, 1971 

Officer Charles A. Heim 

Formerly Assigned: Old Northwest District 

Date of death: October 5, 1971 

Officer Christian C. Schneblen 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 9, 1971 

Detective Sergeant James A. Downs 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: October 10, 1971 

Officer Charles Schlotthober 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: October 12, 1971 

Officer Thomas Irvin, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: October 12, 1971 

Officer John E. Herold 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: October 12, 1971 

Sergeant Stanton J. Grace 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: October 26, 1971 

Officer Bryan J. Warner 

Assigned: Tactical Section  

Date of death: November 11, 1971 

Officer Otto Boise 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: November 11, 1971 

Officer Ernest Langner 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: December 17, 1971 

Officer Louis Martindale 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 31, 1971 

~1970~ 

Sergeant John P. Stricker 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: January 1, 1970 

Officer Peter Saweck 

Formerly Assigned: Old Eastern District 

Date of death: January 8, 1970 

Officer George Goyert 

Formerly Assigned: Foot Traffic 

Date of death: January 12, 1970 

Officer Raymond Y. Mitchell 

Formerly Assigned: Old Eastern District 

Date of death: January 15, 1970 

Lieutenant Stanley Oster 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: January 17, 1970 

Officer Louis Hranicka 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 18, 1970 

Officer George Frederick Heim 

Assigned: Southeast District 

Line of Duty Death: January 16, 1970 

Officer Michael J. Hoban 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: January 22, 1970 

Officer Chester W. Burris 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: January 22, 1970 

Detective Frank J. Vitak 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: January 25, 1970 

Officer Joseph M. Huber 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: February 5, 1970 

Officer Thomas L. Roche 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: February 12, 1970 

Officer Patrick M. Donohoe 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: March 1, 1970 

Officer Henry G. Spruill 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: March 8, 1970 

Charwoman Jennie Rada 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: March 6, 1970 

Officer Martin J. Hanna, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: March 14, 1970 

Officer Henry Mickey 

Assigned: Central District 

Line of Duty Death: March 24, 1970 

Officer William Middleton 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: April 4, 1970 

Lieutenant Thomas L. Barranger 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death April 4, 1970 

Officer William Klosinski 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: April 7, 1970 

Officer August Nellies 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death April 10, 1970 

Captain George F. Klemmick 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. Homicide 

Date of death: April 17, 1970 

Officer John A. Hoh 

Formerly Assigned: Southeast District 

Date of death: April 16, 1970 

Officer Donald Sager 

Assigned: Central District 

Line of Duty Death: April 24, 1970 

Officer Carl H. Knepper 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: May 12, 1970 

Officer Thomas Cremin 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: May 12, 1970 

Sergeant John L. Kellermann, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Central Records Division 

Date of death: May 30, 1970 

Officer Benjamin Williams 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 1, 1970 

Officer Edward J. Chapness 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 1, 1970 

Officer Marcus J. Corcoran 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: June 1, 1970 

Officer Joseph Nawrozki, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 3, 1970 

Officer Charles F. Bardroff 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: June 10, 1970 

Officer George H. Schnitzlein 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: June 17, 1970 

Sergeant Robert M. MacReynolds 

Formerly Assigned: Northern District 

Date of death: June 21, 1970 

Lieutenant George G. Bryan 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. Homicide Unit 

Date of death: July 1, 1970 

Officer Edward O. Racey 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 5, 1970 

Sergeant Anthony J. Lewandowski 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: July 14, 1970 

School Crossing Guard Theresa Marsh Burn 

Assigned: Central District 

Date Of death: July 17, 1970 

Officer Frank J. Kunkel 

Formerly Assigned: Northeast District 

Date of death: July 23, 1970 

Officer Robert G. Correa 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: August 11, 1970 

Sergeant William L. Stone, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. 

Date of death: August 28, 1970 

School Crossing Guard Audrey L. R. Weaver 

Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: September 2, 1970 

Officer John L. Clarke 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: September 16, 1970 

Sergeant William J. Keogh, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: N/A 

Date of death: September 21, 1970 

Sergeant Frank J. Wesolowski 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Date of death: September 24, 1970 

Officer Elmer Schmidt 

Formerly Assigned: A.I.D. & Communications Division 

Date of death: September 26, 1970 

Officer Charles H. Lambdin 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: September 26, 1970 

Officer Mardell E. Struss 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street Station 

Date of death: September 28, 1970 

Sergeant John C. White 

Formerly Assigned:  

Date of death: October 5, 1970 

Officer James Reese 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: October 5, 1970 

Officer Frank L. Duffy, Sr. 

Formerly Assigned: Pine Street Station 

Date of death: October 21, 1970 

Officer Paul E. Moran, Jr. 

Formerly Assigned: Youth Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1970 

Store Supervisor Edwin Craig Ward 

Formerly Assigned: Property Division 

Date of death: October 25, 1970 

Officer Milton O. Gardner 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: October 31, 1970 

Officer John Kapraun 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: October 31, 1970 

Officer Emory A. Koch 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: November 11, 1970 

Officer Willard Pyle 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: November 11, 1970 

Officer Joseph J. Wise 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: November 28, 1970 

Officer John Joseph Wess 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: December 5, 1970 

Lieutenant Bernard J. Deinlein 

Formerly Assigned: Central District 

Date of death: December 19, 1970 

Detective Sergeant Amos J. Issac 

Formerly Assigned: C.I.D. Property 

Date of death: December 19, 1970 

Sergeant Edward R. Leland 

Formerly Assigned: Education & Training Division 

Date of death: December 23, 1970 

Officer Ernest R. Harris 

Formerly Assigned: Western District 

Date of death: December 24, 1970 

Officer George William Rupprecht 

Formerly Assigned: Engineering & Traffic Division 

Date of death: December 26, 1970 

Sergeant Albert V. Kendrick 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death: December 26, 1970 

~1969~ 

Officer Claude M. Stafford 

Formerly Assigned: Southern District 

Date of death: December 25, 1969 

~1968~ 

Detective Julius Merkousko 

Formerly Assigned: CID 

Date of death: October 6, 1968 

Sergeant Robert E. Brathuhn 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: October 10, 1968 

~1963~ 

Officer Elmer W. Weber 

Formerly Assigned: Traffic Division 

Date of death: September 10, 1963 

"Medal of Honor Recipient" 

~1959~ 

Officer Elvy Jett Ruby 

Appointed: March 28, 1919 

Formerly Assigned: Northwest District 

Retired: Nov 26, 1953 

Date of death: Jan 22, 1959 

~1956~ 

Officer Edward Poist 

Formerly Assigned: 

Date of death: September 16, 1956 

~1955~ 

Clarence Thomas Lilly - 12 October 1955

~1939~ 

Lieutenant John R. Stein 

Formerly Assigned: N/A 

Date of death: August 11, 1939 

~1932~ 

Officer Frank J. Vavra 

Formerly Assigned: Eastern District 

Date of death: February 17, 1932 

~ 1922 ~ 

Officer Michael S. Brooks 

Formerly Assigned: Southwest District 

Date of death October 20, 1922 

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Baltimore's Police Lost Control in 90 Minutes

BY SAM FRIZELL

APRIL 28, 2015 11:52 PM EDT

On school days in western Baltimore, local kids gather at a drab shopping center called Mondawmin Mall where bus routes begin and end. On Monday, the hangout became the scene of a riot.

Policing experts who reconstructed the events of the day said that Baltimore police did not send enough officers to the situation at the start, FAILED TO QUICKLY MAKE ARRESTS ONCE TROUBLE BEGAN and did not deploy additional officers quickly enough. Key decisions led the situation to spiral out of control in a short 90 minutes, a lesson other police departments should heed.

Baltimore’s police force was prepared for more unrest related to the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a spinal injury while in police custody. Messages on social media seemed to be goading students to violence, so police went to the mall in riot gear by around 3 p.m. Still, they went prepared for typical high school rebellion, NOT A FULL-BLOWN RIOT.

“When we deployed our officers yesterday, we were deploying for a high school event,” Baltimore Capt. J. Kowalczyk told reporters.

Baltimore cops are trained to handle violent crowds, former police officials told TIME. Officers are drilled in maneuvers — how to form defensive lines, what formations to stand in, how to divide and conquer a crowd. But while police can practice arrests, subduing suspects and even home assaults, there is no real preparation for an angry mob like facing an actual angry mob. In the 90 minutes that Mondawmin Mall transformed from transit hub to a riot scene, Baltimore police were outnumbered and TOO PASSIVE in pursuing arrests, experts said.

The timeline of Monday’s unrest goes something like this. By 3:30 p.m., the students were throwing bottles and bricks at police officers. They were ordered to disperse, but the violence escalated as officers were injured. By 4:30 rioters were setting fires and making their way downtown. The police were unable to stop them. “I was there. I saw our reaction. I gave directions to advance,” Baltimore’s Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said. “They outnumbered us and outflanked us.”

The officers at Mondawmin Mall were too small a group to properly handle the crowd of that size, experts said. There were enough officers at the mall to hold a line and some property, but NOT enough to penetrate the crowd and make arrests, says Neill Franklin, who oversaw Baltimore police training from 2000 to 2004. “You’ve got to have enough boots on the ground,” said Franklin. “Without that, there’s nothing you can do. You’ll be overwhelmed very quickly.” Also important for policing is a deep familiarity with surrounding streets and alleys. In order to secure an area, Franklin said, “police should know all the access and exit points, where protestors can maneuver themselves to and from.”

Before backup arrived, the police officers stationed on the streets around Mondawmin Mall were unable to arrest stone-throwers quickly enough to snuff out the violence.

For a crucial hour and a half on Monday afternoon, they were pelted with rocks as high school and middle-school students ran through the streets. Outnumbered, the officers were forced to retreat and hold their lines, and the crowd quickly got out of control. “The moment the first bottle or the first rock is thrown first, or the first officer is assaulted, action has to be taken,” said Jon Shane, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “And it has to be swift, and it has to be firm.” Much of the crowd had already moved downtown by the time enough police had arrived to make arrests.

Overall, the problem seems to be that police were too passive, an ironic situation given that the protests were related to overly aggressive police tactics.

The Baltimore Police Department has in recent years sought to tone down aggression. A comprehensive retraining in the late 2000s connected Baltimore cops with young people in the city, while the top brass has warned officers repeatedly in recent months not to overstep behavioral bounds. “In past years, had there been riots like this there isn’t any question there would have been many hundreds of arrests,” said Adam Walinsky, a onetime advisor to former Attorney General Robert Kennedy who led Baltimore’s program to retrain its city police from 2007 to 2012. But with tight police oversight, Walinsky added, “what are they supposed to do?”

It didn’t help that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave mixed signals in the days before the riots. The police were instructed “to do everything they could to make sure the protestors were able to exercise their right to free speech. It’s a very delicate balancing act,” Rawlings-Blake said, adding, “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.” She later walked back her comments, and expressed outrage that property was being looted. But much of officers’ restraint can be attributed to the appearance of hesitancy at higher levels, critics say.

Still, the police department’s tepid response to the first hour and a half of violence may have actually saved lives. Years of close training meant that despite all the police injuries, no police fired on the crowd, and no protestors were killed. “What I was impressed with is when they had bricks thrown at them, the police officers held their fire,” said Ret. General Russel L. Honoré, who led operations and brought calm to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “The police showed extraordinary restraint.”

Compared with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, when 53 people were killed, or the Baltimore riots of 1968 when more than 600 were injured, the unrest has so far been relatively tame. “Police have been really great example of being reserved of not doing some of the things we’ve seen in other cities,” said Franklin. “They are really doing their best not to make things worse by being overly aggressive.”

After the showdown at Mondawmin Mall, the west Baltimore kids were joined by adults who burned buildings and looted on their way downtown. By Tuesday morning, 19 police officers had been injured, 15 buildings and 144 cars were set on fire, and more than 200 people had been arrested. For millions at home watching these scenes of looting and night fires on television, the violence looked similar to the riots that unfolded in Ferguson aa year earlier. Unlike Ferguson, though, there were no rubber bullets, assault rifles, or fleets of heavily armored vehicles. In the first hour and a half of the riots, there was just a hapless group of Baltimore police officers, struggling to contain a crowd that was too big, and too unpredictable.

In a larger sense, the decisions made by the Mayor, and city council, the police commissioner and other police leaders, for the streets in Baltimore on that day in 2015 don’t much matter. It’s the long game of improving police community relations that counts. Many have urged the Justice Department to provide more funding for police training and special programs. “This problem didn’t start last night or last week or when Freddie Gray got died,” said Walinsky, the Baltimore police reformer. “Once a riot starts, it’s a little late.”

Jesse James

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Jesse James Once Lived in Baltimore

25 Aug 1929

He stayed here more than once as did other well-known western characters from American history. Doc Holiday for one was trained as a dentist here in Baltimore at the University of Maryland Dental School. Getting back to the James Boys, it seemed when things got hot, they found their way to Baltimore where Jesse stayed under his alias Thomas Howard. Neighbors said he was a calm easy-going man. Approx. 1879 at the end of what was known as the “Serious Seventies” Baltimore was a quiet town. It had cobble stone streets for which barouches and other such vehicles of the time bumped and clattered their way over. The population at the time was only made up of 330.000 and city government only collected about $4 million a year in taxes. The mayor at the time was Ferdinand Latrobe who began his career as mayor and continued the position for seven terms. The Northern boundary of the city was North Ave. and its intersection with Madison Ave.

Jesse James’ Family Headquarters

Of all the parts of Baltimore’s history, Jesse and Frank James staying along with their families was not known until the 1920’s. It turns out that the bandit, his wife, kids, and his brother Frank James sometimes made Baltimore their headquarters and this took place during the serious and picturesque seventies. There was a story of a close call of what would have been a shootout between Frank James and our Baltimore City Policemen of the time.  Frank James lucked out, also prevented the thrill of anyone knowing the James boys were harbored by this city. It wasn’t often that Jesse James would leave a clue of his true identity when he galloped away from a crime back to where he once came, said, Robertus Love, a former newspaper writer, who knew Jesse personally and for a short time road with the James Boys in order to pen Jessie’s biography, “The Rise and fall of Jesse James,” Love liked Jesse very much.  Mr. Love wrote, “Mr. James stated that the family had lived at Nashville, and elsewhere in Tennessee in recent years, and for a time in Baltimore Md., and for some months in Kansas City just removing to St. Joseph.

Where did they live? The records are unclear, and the reason is unclear, he obviously didn’t give the name Jesse and Frank James, Thomas Howard wouldn’t have been as well know back then as it became after his having been killed. When Mrs. James spoke, she said, “We came here to live as other people do. They tell some hard things about my husband, but a better man never lived. He never drank, smoked, or chewed. He never liked whisky. He never swore in my presence and wouldn’t allow others to do so,” Jesse was evidently a good husband and father. A good family man.

A Good Neighbor

“Tom Howard” was the name taken by the man who was much “wanted by the police” in those days, and in all probability he was so successful in his attempt to “live as other people live” that his presence among them created no suggestion of a ripple in the quiet lives of his various neighborhoods. At the time of his death several people who had known him in various cities gave testimony that Tom Howard was “a good neighbor.” There were many who believed Jesse James was not an outlaw and bandit by choice, but that after the civil war he became involved in the guerrilla warfare which continued for some time between the border states, and through these conflicts becoming attached to an outlaw band, he found it impossible to break away. He had a ton of friends among law-abiding groups making it easy to slip in and out of towns where he did not commit crime and blend right in. There were many neighbors that said he attended church and sang all the hymnals, though they say he was obviously a better bank robber than he was a singer. A Baptist Minister once asked Jesse why he does not stop the things he is doing? Jesse answered, “If you’ll tell me just how I can stop, I’ll be glad enough to stop; but I don’t intend to stop directly under a rope!” His brother frank found a way to stop, he made his way into see a governor in the state of Missouri and turned himself in. He was tried for one crime in a plea deal, served his term, came out of prison, and lived to be a respectable member of society. It was at this period in his life that he told a story of his experience in Baltimore City. At the time of the telling he was employed as doorkeeper at a prominent theater, and the tale was related to a man who was then a young detective.  The story was told in Mr. Love’s book was based on Frank James’ theory that “the officer always gets it when he least expects it” “He the illustrated his point by relating his Baltimore experience, as he put it, “They thought they wanted me.” He said he was stopping in Baltimore; he had a room in a house built of solid block of dwellings with no space between them. One night he wanted something to eat, so he took a walk to a nearby market that was open. On the way back to his room with a basket of food on his left arm, his coat collar turned up and his hat brim turned down, he noticed a number of policemen walking up and down in front of his house and they were waiting for him to return. He said, “I was too close to turn back without drawing their suspicion. Directly across the street from the policemen I noticed a white horse hitched to a buggy; the street was well lit from gas lamps and the horse showed up quite well in the mellow gleam.

“I decided quickly upon my plan of action. Probably the officers, I thought, had the block surrounded. My plan was to walk straight on past them if they didn’t interfere with me; I would not go into my room at all. If they attempted to capture me, I would try to reach the horse and buggy by “shooting it out” with the officers. And then drive away as fast as that horse would have taken me.”  - “James said he walked along with his six shooter, which he had harnessed under his left arm. His right hand thus was concealed under his coat and under the arm in which the basket hung. Approaching the bunch of officers, he edged out toward the curbing, intending to walk around them as though he had not noticed them especially. When he was opposite the officers, one of them reached out a hand to stop him. James sprang backward into the street, off the sidewalk, toward the horse and buggy, pulling his pistol from its place, but not quite getting it out – not so that it was visible to the policemen.  “Well, sir, what is it? What is it?” James asked the officers who had tried to stop him. “Don’t be scared, “ said one of the officers, with an oath; we’re not going to hurt you,” James again said, “What is it?” expecting every second to find it necessary to open fire and “get” as many of them as he could, when another officer in a rather gentle tone said, “Say, don’t be afraid of us; we’re not going to harm you, man; we simply want to get men enough to serve as a jury in a coroner’s case where a man in the house next door to my house had died without medical attention, by natural cause or otherwise.” “James then saw, he stated, that the policemen were in front of the house adjoining the one where he was roomed…... he “simply told them he was not a citizen of Maryland but lived in Washington.”  But those Baltimore Policemen never knew how close they came to shooting it out with Frank James, and or how far from James his outlaw brother Jesse might have been.