Law Enforcement in Jacksonville: 180 Years of Service

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Law Enforcement in Jacksonville: 180 Years of Service

Entry/Object ID

Library.910

Description

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm Law Enforcement in Jacksonville: 180 Years of Service by Jacksonville (Fla.). Office of the Sheriff. Cover title: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office 1822-2001. History of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, 1822-2001. This is the first detailed and comprehensive yearbook of the agency. On cover: Millennium year 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 252). Harry Reagan, Yearbook editor. Nat Glover was sheriff at time of publication. He was the first African American elected sheriff in Florida since the end of Reconstruction. Contents: Photo or badge of each sheriff from James Dell, 1822 to Nat Glover,2003. -- Photo or badge of various chiefs -- Badges through the years -- Uniforms through the years -- Vehicles through the years -- History of law enforcement in Jacksonville / Wild, wild, East :Frontier Jax -- Duval's 1st elected sheriff -- Second Seminole War -- First jail -- First officer to lay down his life / Civil War and regulators / Reconstruction, tourists and desperados -- Outlaw John Wesley Hardin, alias John H. Swain, in Jax // Liberty and LaVilla -- Emmanuel Fortune, first black town marshal -- Legacy of service by Officer Joe Nelson -- Yellow fever -- First Chief of Police, James Hoey / There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight -- Police at turn of century -- Black Maria (paddy wagon), Mary, Martha, Mack and Charlie (horses) -- First modern police chief (Vinzant) -- Boys night out for Camp Libre troops -- Great photo of 1896 of police department / Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, tough lawman -- Broward takes on Gentleman Jim / Sheriff R. Fleming Bowden -- Clash of titans / Conflagration of 1901 / Up from the ashes -- Jax police enter 20th century -- Legacy of Sheriff N. Broward -- Coming of the automobile -- Chief Vinzant, father of the Police Academy, a training school, and Police relief fund -- Amazingly able Chief Abel J. Roberts -- / Guardians at the gate -- Duval County Road Patrol -- Sheriff Rex Sweat -- Chief William F. Johnston "Big Red" / Job that nobody wanted -- History of corrections in Jax -- Firsty city jails -- 1st Duval County jail and Raspberry Park -- Prison farm -- Keeping up with the times / Dale Carson, consolidation and community policing -- Black officers return to beat after 61 years -- Birth of the "Office of the Sheriff" -- 1st police radio system -- Birth of communications center -- 1st female police officers, Elizabeth E. Thompson and Mittie Greek Tipton -- Sheriff Jim McMillan -- Sheriff Nat Glover (biography including ax-handle Saturday / Chronology / Department firsts / Photos of substations / Ultimate sacrifice / Sheriff's staff, officers,corrections officers,civilians, reserves, family connections, retirees , vehicles, aviation, marinesports, youth, academies photos / Nicknames: a JSO tradition.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Jacksonville (Fla.). -- Office of the Sheriff -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.). -- Office of the Sheriff -- Pictorial works., Police -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History., Police -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Pictorial works., Ax Handle Saturday, Jacksonville, Fla., 1960., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Fire, 1901., Jacksonville (Fla.). Office of the Sheriff.

Publication Details

Author

Jacksonville (Fla.). Office of the Sheriff.

Edition

Limited Edition

Publisher

Turner Publishing Company

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Paducaah, Kentucky

Call No.

HV 8148 .J32 L38 2002

ISBN

1563117010

LCCN

2002103325