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Plain Clothes Police Shakeup Sparks Crime Surge
A sweeping order shifted about 300 plain clothes officers to uniform in Chicago, aiming to curb burglaries and pickpocketing as inspectors report returns from a secret order. The move also reorganized the chief’s staff, transferring personnel and boosting patrol presence amid rising street crime and claims of police bias.
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Police Department
F. Randall
Shippy
Town Hall
Moving Picture Bureau
James Markham
Max Noothaar
Schuettler
Col. Steward
Chicago
Bad Coppers Union
Cleland
Roosevelt
Africa
McKenzie Cleland
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Girten
Michael F. Girten
Oscar Hunce
Ryan
Hunce
Fredricus Yonge
Twelfth Street
Yonge
Morton Park
Fortieth Avenue
Forty-eighth Avenue
Elm
Sedgwick Streets
Thomas Leady
Milton Avenue
Leady
Miles O'Donald
Franklin Street
North Pier
Carland
O'Donald
John Hennessey
John Lenahan
Eddie Murphy
Kinzle Street
Chicago & Northwestern
Hennessey
Lenahan
Fred Bambeur
William Benjamin
67Th Street
Bambour
Rambour
Matthew A. Reed
Chicago Avenue