Section I. Title - NYPD, A City and its Police Authors - James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto Number of Pages - 388 Publication Date - 2000 Section II. NYPD, A City and its Police is a book about the development of the New York City Police Department ... from the early 1800s to the new millennium. The book describes people and events that made the NYPD into the organization it is today. Section III. The authors, James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto, wrote NYPD, A City and its Police from an objective point of view. They informed the readers of specific examples of legendary officers who had helped ...

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... society of wooden housing, was a greater capital offense than robbery, murder and treason. According to Clark, he and his alleged accomplice, Joe Lawrence, lit a candle in the barn of one William Cross and waited for it to burn down to light the hay in the barn. The prosecution argued that no arsonist would desire anything else but the destruction of life ... . He testified as to her saying that she intended to do so. Oddly enough, she testified that she had received a letter from Stephen Clark, given to her by her cousin, William Stanwood, from Clark in the Corrective House in which bot...

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Chester Alan Arthur Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States who gained the presidency when President James A. Garfield was assassinated. Arthur rose above loyalty to his political party to enact the first comprehensive U.S. civil service legislation. The act signaled a new era of reform in national politics, but ... of his party, and after completing Garfield's term he was forced to retire from public life.Arthur was born in 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, he was the oldest son of William Arthur, an Irish-born Baptist minister and schoolteacher, and Malvina Stone Arthur. ...

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... York City and in Liverpool, England. The English branch collapsed in 1818. Irving published his first periodical titled "Salmagundi" from January 24, 1807 to January 25, 1808 with his brother William and James Paulding. This periodical encouraged not "French slops and fricasseed sentiment," but rather it encouraged "genuine American tastes." The three writers decided to produce the periodical in a new, more convenient ... ...

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