Timeline

1789–1899 ∼ Establishing Crime-Fighting Organizations

Congress authorizes recruitment of marshals to serve their warrants and subpoenas (1789) / New Orleans forms police force to control slavery (early 1800s) / Rioting in cities (1830s) / Boston (1838) and New York (1844) form police departments / Congress authorizes the Secret Service (1865) / Police exchange photos of criminals (1870s) / First federal prison opens (1891) /New York City conducts investigations into police corruption (1894) / Police training school established in New York (1897)

MILESTONES: Naturalization Law excludes non-whites from citizenship (1790) • Oliver Evans builds the first steam-powered motor vehicle in the U.S. (1805) • Beginning of Manifest Destiny doctrine of acquiring western territory (1845) • Fourteenth Amendment declares that all persons born or naturalized in America are citizens (1866) • Alexander Graham Bell with George Watson invent the telephone (1876)

1900–1929 ∼ Crime Fighting Devices and Techniques

New York City introduces first law governing speed (1901) / Pennsylvania establishes a highway patrol (1905) / Oregon hires first policewoman...