RT Book T1 Good order and safety: a history of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 1861 - 1906 A1 Wagner, Allen E. A1 Wagner, Allen Eugene LA English PP Columbia, Mo. PB Distr. by the Univ. of Missouri Press YR 2008 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/562700706 AB The formative years -- The war years : 1861/1865 -- A peacetime metropolitan police -- Politics, revolution, and the "social evil" -- A new city charter and old problems -- The crittenden years -- A new board and an international murder case -- Entering the gay nineties -- Preparing for the new century : the Police Act of 1899 -- Policing "the future great city of the world" -- 1904 : the year the world came to St. Louis -- After the fair was over : the reformation AB "Examines the beginnings of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, from 1861 to 1906, when St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in the United States"--Provided by publisher NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 469 - 520) and index CN HV8148.S262 SN 1883982634 SN 9781883982638 K1 Saint Louis (Mo.) : Metropolitan Police Department : History K1 Police : Missouri : Saint Louis : History K1 Saint Louis, Mo. : Metropolitan Police Department : Geschichte 1861-1906