Name/Title
Annual Police Department Report, 1971Entry/Object ID
2024.28.14Description
Acc. No. 24.28.14
Subject Category: City, Police Department
Date or Period, 1971
Object: booklet
Description: Booklet, with brown plastic spine, with cover of tan leather-look card stock. Title printed in brown: 'Annual Report / 1971', and an illustration of the silhouette of a person wearing a cap, and a seven-pointed star with text: 'Alameda / 71 / Police'. The booklet has a sticker stating 'Alameda Collection' and on back, a crossed-through bar code from the Alameda Free Library. Also has been stamped, and labeled in pencil. First page has stamp in red with 'Withdrawn'.
Size: L 11 x W 8 1/2 inches
History of Object: Alameda City Police Department Annual Report for the 1971 calendar year. Prepared by City Manager, H. D. Weller, and Chief of Police, Richard Young. The report is dedicated to the memory of Sergeant Charles Arthur Donahue, who passed that year due to illness. Report includes information about crimes, staffing and services, and other police matters, and is illustrated with photos almost on ever second page. In the introduction the Chief mentions a reorganization into a Field Operations division and Auxiliary Services division, and the first major civil disobedience demonstration for which outside help was called in - a demonstration outside the Naval Air Station to stop deploying of the U.S.S. Coral Sea. A history mentions the 1970s bringing the computer to law enforcement.
This was a superfluous copy from the Alameda Free Library Alameda Collection.
Acquired from: Alameda Public Library reference desk
Donation Date: 2/26/2022; Catalog Date: 3/29/2026
