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 LAPD Officer James Francis Crehan was a police officer for slightly more than a year before he[…]

In the early 1900s, a small-time crook in New Orleans decided to head west. Perhaps the situation[…]

Traffic has always been a problem in Los Angeles, for different reasons at different times. In the[…]

   Officer Cecil Bowman, 33, was an imposing figure as he walked his beat along the rail[…]

  When Arthur Crusey joined the LAPD on Feb. 8, 1911, the 24-year-old officer was first assigned[…]

At about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 1910, two young gunmen, wearing black clothes and black[…]

   Capt. Walter H. Auble, who served a one-year appointment as chief of the Los Angeles Police[…]

 Patrick Henry Lyons worked as a special patrolman for the LAPD before he was officially hired as[…]

Officer Clyde A. May, a member of the LAPD for less than a year, was the first[…]