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Title: Kansas City Police Department
Description: File contains one newspaper from the 1950s and several from the 1960s about various issues relating to the local police and civil rights. These range from police brutality to civil disobedience, racial views, and use of police dogs. There are several photographs included among the article photocopies. The newspapers include the Kansas City Call, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Kansan, and The Kansas City Times.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Lafayette A. Tillman
Description: The Ramos Lincoln Collection vertical files have two files for Lafayette Tillman. One contains correspondence from Tillman to his wife, Portia, daughter June, and to his attorney, concerning his pension. There is a card from Nagasaki, Japan, sent in 1901 and letters from Camp Haskell in Georgia, San Francisco, and the Philippines, while in the service. The second file has photographs.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Coalition of Concerned Citizens
Description: File contains one article, without illustrations, about the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, from The Kansas City Star, titled "Citizen Group Vote to Monitor Police," by Charles Hammer. The 1972 article relates various activities and goals of the coalition, including its intention to serve as a "community police commission." It met at the Coaches Council, 1824 the Paseo.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Forte Sworn in As KC Police Chief
Description: Darryl Forte was sworn in as Kansas City's first black police chief at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center.
Date: 2011-10-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Police Training Takes Step Forward
Description: "With marble hallways and the smell of fresh paint, Kansas City's new, state-of-the-art regional police training academy opened to 98 police cadets" on September 17, 2007. While the academy will be used to train local cadets and serve as an advanced training site for police officers, it is expected to be a training destination for police officers across the nation. The facility sits on 120 acres located in the Northland at Pleasant Valley Road and North Shoal Creek Parkway.
Date: 2007-09-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Haven? Cops, Residents find Waldo, Brookside Safe
Description: The Waldo and Brookside neighborhoods, bounded roughly "by 47th Street on the north, 95th Street on the south, State Line Road on the west, and Blue Ridge Road on the east," are generally low-crime areas. This is attributed to the "tight knit" nature of the neighborhoods and the Community Police Action Co-op.
Date: 2008-09-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: 1904
Description: First in a four-part series of historical fiction set in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1904 and focusing upon a murder investigation carried out by the city's first African-American police officer Lafayette Tillman. James and Thomas Pendergast and other figures from Kansas City history make appearances throughout the story. The final installment includes a section that explains how historical information was used to create the story.
Date: 2014-11-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Joseph (Joe) D. McNamara Obituaries
Description: Copies of obituaries for former Kansas City Police Department Chief Joseph D. McNamara (1973-1976). It is reported that McNamara passed away in his sleep at about 4:00 a.m. on Friday, September 19, 2014, at his home in California after battling cancer.
Date: 2014-09-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: East Patrol Campus Officially Named for Leon Jordan
Description: Article announces that the Kansas City City Council has voted 12-0 to name the new East Patrol campus in honor the memory of civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan. The author states that Kansas City Police facilities are usually named for their geographic location, but that Councilman Jermaine Reed recommended a compromise in which the entire campus would be named after Jordan but the station itself still being known as East Patrol.
Date: 2014-12-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: K.C.K. Police Department Announces New Ranks Effective Jan. 1; First Negro Lieutenant Is Boston Daniels
Description: Biographical article about the promotion of Boston Daniels, �??detective on the [Kansas City, Kansas] police force since 1945 to Kansas City, Kansas�??s first Negro police lieutenant.�?� Daniels was a native of Arkansas who came to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1928.
Date: 1957-12-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Highland Cemetery, Gravestone for Lafayette A. Tillman
Description: View of grave marker for Lafayette A. Tillman in Highland Cemetery which is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Lafayette Tillman was a soldier, a scholar, and one of Kansas City’s first African American citizens to be appointed to the police force.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC122 Kansas City Police Historical Society Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Kansas City Police Historical Society Collection consists of scrapbooks, reports, correspondence, ephemera, and photographs relating to the Kansas City Police Department.
Date: 1881/2012
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Busy Street Location
Description: Exterior view of an unidentified busy street location. Besides pedestrians, policemen can be seen as well as an automobile. A large, barn-type building is in view across the street and people appear to be going to attend some event being held there.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Target Practice at Firing Range
Description: Seven men firing at a bullseye target from short range. The two men on the right are wearing police uniforms.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Police Detectives
Description: Group portrait of portion of Detective Bureau before police memorial.
Date: 1922-05-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Police Briefing or Training
Description: Group of law enforcement agents seated in a classroom. They appear to be in a briefing or some sort of training session.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Police Briefing or Training
Description: Group of law enforcement agents seated in a classroom. They appear to be in a briefing or some sort of training session.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Negative

Title: SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
Description: The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
Date: 1980/2005
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Biography of Lafayette A. Tillman (1859-1914), Barber, Soldier, and Policeman
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: The Force Is Strong with the 'Mounties'
Description: Article about the Kansas City Police Department's Mounted Patrol Section. Currently the patrol has 10 horses and 9 officers. The patrol began as a nonprofit organization in 2003 and was absorbed into the police department in 2006. "With the horses they're able to get to places that the cars cannont get to or even the motorcycles," and people are more likely to approach a patrolman on horseback. The horses are a great public realtions tool as well.
Date: 2009-04-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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