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  2. History of the New York City Police Department - Wikipedia

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    The new regulation uniforms of the Police in 1854. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) originates in the Government of New York City attempts to control rising crime in early- to mid-19th-century New York City. The City's reforms created a full-time professional police force modeled upon London's Metropolitan Police, itself only formed ...

  3. Murder of Lauretha Vaird - Wikipedia

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    Badge no. 5897 [1] Lauretha A. Vaird (August 4, 1952 – January 2, 1996) was a Philadelphia Police Department officer who was shot dead by the rapper Christopher Roney aka "Cool C" during a botched armed bank robbery in January 1996. Roney attempted to rob the bank with another rapper, Warren McGlone aka "Steady B", and another man, Mark Canty.

  4. Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia

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    Website. mpdc .dc .gov. The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia ( MPDC ), more commonly known locally as the Metropolitan Police Department ( MPD ), and, colloquially, DC Police, is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia, in the United States. With approximately 3,400 officers [6] and 600 civilian ...

  5. Philadelphia Experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex- merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sometime around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer ...

  6. Brazilian Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Brazilian Navy ( Portuguese: Marinha do Brasil, lit. 'Navy of Brazil') is the naval service branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces, responsible for conducting naval operations . The navy was involved in Brazil's war of independence from Portugal. Most of Portugal 's naval forces and bases in South America were transferred to the newly ...

  7. Phoenix news helicopter collision - Wikipedia

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    2007 Phoenix news helicopter mid-air collision. /  33.49667°N 112.07056°W  / 33.49667; -112.07056. On July 27, 2007, two AS-350 AStar helicopters from television stations KNXV-TV and KTVK collided in mid-air over Phoenix, Arizona, while covering a police pursuit. [4] [5] On board the two aircraft were four people in total – pilot ...

  8. Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Length. 82 miles (132.0 km) Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (P&CR) (1834) was one of the earliest commercial railroads in the United States, running 82 miles (132 km) from Philadelphia to Columbia, Pennsylvania, it was built by the Pennsylvania Canal Commission in lieu of a canal from Columbia to Philadelphia; in 1857 it became part of the ...

  9. WIS (TV) - Wikipedia

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    WIS (channel 10) is a television station in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW.The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios on Bull and Gervais Streets (US 1/US 378) in downtown Columbia and a transmitter on Rush Road (southeast of I-20) in rural southwestern Kershaw County, outside Lugoff.