Boston Police: Behind the Badge
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Robert Anthony
Author Robert E. Anthony is a 27-year sworn member of the Boston Police Department; he is the first official Boston Police chronologist. In charge of researching the department�s history, Anthony takes great care in protecting its legacy. Anthony is a US Army veteran and a former member of the US Secret Service Uniformed Division.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brings back memories of the Boston I knew in the 60's and 70's. Wish it had more storied pages. --Mr. Dana Roberts, 2018, age 69.
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Boston Police - Robert Anthony
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INTRODUCTION
American law enforcement can trace its roots to Boston and the Boston Police Department. The citizens of the town of Boston established a watch in 1631; the town took command of the watch in 1636. Watchmen patrolled at night on foot, looking for criminals, undomesticated animals, Indians, and fire. Their duties grew along with the metropolis, which, in 1822, became known as the city of Boston. In 1838, Boston recognized a police force of six men under the command of a city marshal. The Boston Watch of 120 men operated independently.
On October 6, 1851, Mayor Bigelow nominated Barney McGinniskin as the first person of Irish heritage ever selected as a police officer in Boston. When the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party took control of the Massachusetts state government in 1854, McGinniskin was fired, and Boston was again without an Irish police officer.
In 1854, the old police and watches were abolished and structured into the Boston Police Department with 250 officers. Each officer was paid $2 per day or night shift, he could not hold any outside employment, and each officer walked his own beat. These officers were issued a bill and hook and a rattle to sound the alarm or call for assistance. Later, the bill and hook of the old watch was replaced with a 14-inch club.
In the late 19th century, Boston Police provided benevolent services. Police officers at each station would serve soup to the underprivileged—first at the expenditure of the officers themselves and later with funds from the city. Newcomers to Boston could spend a night as a dweller in a police station. Police ambulances/wagons would transport sick and injured citizens to Boston City Hospital.
Boston used stagecoach wagons, which were called the Black Mariah
as they were mostly used to transport persons under the influence from the bars in Downtown Boston. The name came from boardinghouse owner Maria Lee, a large black woman who, in the 1820s, was feared more than the police; the police would ask her to help them detain and restrain criminals. Thus, the name Black Mariah was given to the wagon. These wagons were horse drawn with two horses, a wagon master, and rider. The department has one of these wagons in its historic