Voice Stress

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Voice Stress Analysis

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”.1:168 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.

The Mark II Voice Stress Analyzer

The Mark II Voice Stress Analyzer is the most advanced, accurate and simple instrument of its kind. It allows the user to automatically detect, measure and analyze the exact degree of psychological stress in a word or phrase spoken by anyone. It can be used in person, through recorded messages or by telephone, or in radio communications.

When a subject tries to cheat, or has emotional difficulty with certain questions, he will experience psychological distress. Any misrepresentation or psychological stress induced by stimuli causes a lack of synchronization between the control of the voice of the brain and the mechanism of the voice in the throat. This stress connection produces an inaudible roughness in the voice called tremolo. Tremolos related to stress occurs uniformly in all human allocations, independent of language or sex.

With this in mind, the Mark II applications are incredible. Traders or entrepreneurs concerned with critical negotiations or personal evaluations, law enforcement agencies and intelligence organizations will find the Mark II very useful. It has new applications for trainings where stress and emotional reactions are a priority, and can be used for medical-psychiatric diagnosis.

The unit is equipped with digital or printed display, which helps in the interpretation and analysis of the final results. The Mark II is totally portable, contained in an attractive briefcase.

The nonverbal content of speech carries information about the physiological and psychological condition of the speaker. Psychological stress is a pathological element of this condition, of which the cause is accepted to be “workload”. Objective, quantifiable correlates of stress are searched for by means of measuring the acoustic modifications of the voice brought about by workload. Different voice features from the speech signal to be influenced by stress are loudness, fundamental frequency, jitter, zero-crossing rate, speech rate and high-energy frequency ratio. To examine the effect of workload on speech production an experiment was designed. 108 native speakers of Dutch were recruited to participate in a stress test (Stroop test). The experiment and the analysis of the test results will be reported in this paper. 1 Introduction Although speech is a vocal activity of which much is verbal, there are a number of human vocalizations that are essentially non-linguistic. Nonverbal aspects of speech are intonation, voice quality, prosody, rhythm and pausing. These phenomena stand for a non-verbal signaling system, which intertwines with the verbal or linguistic system. The non-verbal content of the voice carries, among other things, information about the physiological and psychological state of the speaker. Human beings are able to identify different emotional states because these are characterized by clearly perceptible (non-verbal) behavior. Part of this non-verbal communication takes place via other modalities like body movements and facial expressions. The question that remains is how much of this information can be recovered from non-verbal vocalizations only. One of the most interesting research areas concerning non-verbal communication in relation to a person’s psychological state is the search for objective, quantifiable correlates of stress. In the past, this search focused primarily on physiological measures, but over the last years, a broader range of behaviors has been examined especially non-verbal behavior. The advantage being that stress indexes from non-verbal vocalizations can be obtained nonintrusively. From a practical point of view, this is critical in a situation in which co-operation for physiological measurement is precluded, for example in the case of negotiating with terrorists. However, even when co-operation is possible, the presence of monitoring devices needed for physiological measurement can be stressful and anxiety-arousing or simply not practical. Psychological stress is a pathological element of the physiological and psychological condition of the speaker, of which the cause is accepted to be “workload.” Objective, Petr Sojka, Ivan Kopecek, and Karel Pala (Eds.): TSD 2004, LNAI 3206, pp. 449–456, 2004. ˇ Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 450 Leon J.M. Rothkrantz et al. quantifiable correlates of stress are searched for by means of measuring the acoustic modifications of the voice brought about by workload. These changes in the acoustic speech signal due to stress are mainly caused by the physiological changes that accompany the stress reaction. These changes also affect the organs of speech, such as the respiration and muscle tension (vocal cords) and therefore the speech signal. Hence, it should be possible to establish whether a person is stressed just by analyzing his voice. 2 Related Work Much work on stress analysis in real life situations concentrates on air-ground communication in aviation and space flight under dangerous conditions. In many of these studies, an increase of the fundamental frequency (F0) of the voice in situations of increasing danger is reported. Williams and Stevens also reported an increase in F0 range and abrupt fluctuations of F0 contour, with increasing stress. In a Russian study, the voices of astronauts are examined and changes in spectral energy distribution (spectral centroid moving to higher frequency) are reported. An increase of the energy of high-frequency components has also been reported by in a study involving pilot communication. Scherer et al. found depressive patients speak with higher F0 and a larger proportion of high-frequency components, just before the admission at a psychiatric hospital. Jones found increases in fundamental frequency and statistically significant decreases of the vocal jitter in recordings obtained from pilots training in a simulated AWACS environment. In many laboratory studies, stress is brought about by showing unpleasant or disgusting slides or films, or by placing the subject in situations that produce unpleasant emotions, such as stage fright. The degree of stress perceived will vary from person to person depending on the person's experience and arousability. Apart from these individual differences, some studies show an increase in intensity, increased fundamental frequency, a stronger concentration of energy above 500 Hz and an increase in speech rate. More recently, many experiments were conducted in which cognitive or achievement tasks were used to induce stress on a subject. When persons were subjected to a psychomotor task, the speaking fundamental frequency showed an increase when the task became more difficult. In addition, word duration increased during the task, but decreased again when the task became more complex. Brenner also found an increase in average amplitude when subjects were performing a tracking task. Table 1 summarizes the parameters that have been shown to be indicators of the vocal expression of emotion, emotional disturbance or stress. 3 Experimental Design To study the correspondence between human stress levels and speech production and to assess the relevance of the features listed in Table 1, an exploring experiment has been conducted. 108 native speakers of Dutch were subjected to several tasks that have been designed to place a cognitive workload on the subject. The cognitive workload is defined as the information processing load placed on the human operator while performing a particular task. This information processing load is considered to be correlated with the amount of attention that must be directed to a task. It is assumed that cognitive workload increases with the difficulty.

Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, Pascal Wiggers, Jan-Willem A. van Wees, and Robert J. van Vark Data and Knowledge Systems Group Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands

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Abstract

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

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COATLESS "COPS"

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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.”

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1st Coatless

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Baltimore Police 1st went Coatless in 1922

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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

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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.

The Evening Sun Fri Jun 29 1956 Short Sleeves 72i

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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.

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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

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222-3333
Emergency Number

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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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Final Roll Call

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Medal of Honor

Baltimore Police Historical Society Uncategorised 18 April 2025

The Medal of Honor is awarded by the Police Commissioner to members who distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and courage at the risk of their own lives, above and beyond the call of duty, in an extraordinary act of heroism and bravery without endangering or jeopardizing the lives of others and without detriment in any way to their sworn oath.

90 Minutes

Baltimore Police Historical Society Uncategorised 18 April 2025

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.”

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17 Days

April 18, 2015 – May 3, 2015

12 April 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old resident of Baltimore. Gray's neck and spine were injured while he was in a police vehicle causing him to enter into a coma. On 18 April, there were protests in front of the Western District Police Station. Gray died on the 19th of April.

Further protests were organized after Gray's death became known publicly, amid the police department's continuing inability to adequately or consistently explain the events following the arrest, and Gray's injuries. More and more pockets of spontaneous protests began. After the funeral service, several of the protests crossed the line of protests, into rioting with the addition of violent and destructive elements. Civil unrest continued with at least twenty police officers injured, and more than 250 arrests, 350 businesses were damaged, 150 vehicle fires, 60 structure fires, 27 drugstores burglarized and looted, thousands of police and the Maryland National Guard troops were deployed, a state of emergency was declared within the limits of Baltimore City. That state of emergency was lifted on May 6. The series of protests took place against a historical backdrop of racial and poverty issues in Baltimore.

On May 1, 2015, Gray's death was ruled by the medical examiner to be a homicide. Six officers were charged with various offenses, including second-degree murder, in connection with Gray's death. Three officers went to trial, evidence was offered, and heard before they were all three subsequently acquitted. In July of 2016, following the three acquittals, Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby realizing she had overcharged with little to no evidence was forced to drop the charges against the remaining three officers.

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Jesse James

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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.

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