NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT NYPD 150th ANNIVERSARY MARBLE BADGE PAPERWEIGHT!

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HERE’S A
1995
MARBLE PAPERWEIGHT COMMEMORATING THE 150
th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE
“NYPD”
THE PAPERWEIGHT BEARS A HIGH RELIEF OF A NEW YORK CITY POLICE BADGE EMBLEM INSIGNIA, and A DECORATIVE PLAQUE THAT READS
“NEW YORK CITY
POLICE FOUNDATION SALUTES
NEW YORK’S FINEST FOR 150 YEARS”
‘1845-1995’
THE PIECE MEASURES 6” x 3,” WEIGHS
1
lb,
7½
oz., and IS IN VERY FINE CONDITION – NO CHIPS or CRACKS, BUT THE “
K
” IN ‘
NEW YORK
’ IS WORN.
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The New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) originates in the Government of New York City’s attempts to control rising crime in early to mid 19th century. This increased crime was due to an increased population, caused primarily by poor Irish immigrants beginning in the 1820s. The NYC's reforms created a full-time professional police force.
Established in 1845
, the Municipal Police replaced the inadequate night watch system which had been in place since the 17th century, when the city was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam.
In 1857, the Municipal Police were tumultuously replaced by the Metropolitan Police, which consolidated other local police departments. Late 19th and early 20th century trends included professionalization and struggles against corruption.
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HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
The history of New York City's Police Department is traced from 1625.
In the Dutch era from 1625 to 1664, the first professional police department was created in New Amsterdam. Police officers used hand rattles as they patrolled the streets to discourage crime and apprehend criminals. Under British rule from 1664 to 1783, constables were charged with keeping the peace. They focused on such offenses as excessive drinking, gambling, prostitution, and church service disturbances. During the Revolutionary War, the British appointed a military governor and employed citizen patrols to protect New York City residents. After independence, New York adopted the London police model and established a paid professional police force in 1828. The first set of printed rules and regulations was issued to the police force in 1845, and full uniforms were adopted in 1853. The Metropolitan Police District was subsequently established by the Metropolitan Police Act. During the Civil War, violent crime increased in New York City, and a police insurance fund was established in 1864 to guarantee financial security to the families of police officers killed or disabled in the line of duty. Between 1870 and 1894, New York's police department was restructured. In 1898, the department assimilated 18 smaller police agencies and later began to use plain clothes police officers for the first time. The department experienced a period of modernization from 1900 to 1920. Following World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and civil unrest in the 1960's, the focus in 1970's was on rebuilding police-community relations. An effort was made in the 1980's to strike a balance between rapid response and police-community relations, and community policing was adopted in the early 1990's.
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