Description: American Police Equipment - A Guide to Early Restraints, Clubs & Lanterns. Published 2000Library of Congress Control Number: 00-090700ISBN: 0-9665938-5-5This follow-up to AMERICAN POLICE COLLECTIBLES provides detailed information about early police equipment that was manufactured and sold in this country. It is filled with new material, photographs and in-depth profiles of the individuals who invented the equipment and the companies that manufactured or sold police products.This book contains extensive photographs of common and rare pieces of early police equipment. It is filled with period advertisements as well as pages from police equipment catalogs from the 1880s through the 1920s illustrating the evolution of restraints, clubs and lanterns designed for police use. It provides insights into what it took to be a police officer a century ago, where the term "cop" came from and how American policing evolved from the British police system.
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Publication Year: 1998
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: American Police Equipment
Author: Matthew G. Forte
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Original Language: English
Publisher: Turn of the Century
Topic: Law Enforcement, Police Collectibles
