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    San Diego Harbor Police
    San Diego Harbor Police
    San Diego Harbor Police
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    San Diego Harbor Police

    By Michael P. Rich

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    The San Diego Harbor Police Department has proudly provided more than 50 years of law enforcement. From its humble beginnings as a small security force formed after World War II to protect San Diego imports to the modern and sophisticated police force it is today, the San Diego Harbor Police Department serves as a shining example of the exciting and important role law enforcement plays in the development of a busy 21st-century city. Through a stunning collection of never-before-seen photographs, this book tells the story of the officers who have served and protected one of America s most historic and vital harbors. History lovers, police aficionados, and San Diego locals and visitors will be fascinated by the photographs within, which document the department s history from 1934 through its 1962 transition into the San Diego Unified Port District of today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateNov 17, 2014
    ISBN9781439648520
    San Diego Harbor Police
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    Michael P. Rich

    Curated from the personal archives of early harbor police officers and the San Diego Unified Port District, author Michael P. Rich brings together beautiful photographs with personal stories and historical facts to showcase the captivating history of the San Diego Harbor Police Department. Sergeant Rich uses these stories and photographs to tell, for the first time, the complete history of the San Diego Harbor Police.

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      San Diego Harbor Police - Michael P. Rich

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      INTRODUCTION

      San Diego’s rich history is based on its connection to its naturally formed deepwater harbor. Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered California by sailing into what is now San Diego Bay in 1542, thus claiming the harbor and surrounding region for the king of Spain.

      In the year 1769, the first European settlement was formed in San Diego when Franciscan fathers established a mission on a hill overlooking San Diego Bay. The Franciscans settled next to a large Native American village. This area, known as Old Town, became a thriving village by the 1880s and was a vital shipping port. San Diego Harbor was, by then, becoming a bustling port where ships loaded and unloaded cattle, hides, and quarried stone.

      In 1822, Mexico achieved independence from Spain, and San Diego became the capital of Mexican California. In 1846—after the Mexican-American War—the US Army established permanent American rule over San Diego, which was incorporated in 1850.

      San Diego Harbor transitioned into a vital whaling port and a base for fur trading on the West Coast. In 1867, San Francisco land developer Alonzo E. Horton bought a 1,000-acre plot of land that later became downtown San Diego. Horton was instrumental in laying out the city’s streets and built San Diego’s first wharf and hotel, along San Diego Harbor. Now that the city of San Diego had a growing population, residents found that a larger police force was vital to the city’s success. Prior to 1889, law enforcement in San Diego was handled by a group of city marshals and constables, consisting of patrolmen, a detective, a criminologist, a jailor, a process server, clerk, and an executioner.

      In 1870, the California gold rush began and ignited a land boom in San Diego—increasing the population to 40,000. With the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad, the country became connected to San Diego and its harbor. In 1850, the City of San Diego built the first town jail at a cost of $5,000. In 1871, a new jail was established on the site of the present-day county courthouse, at Front and C Streets. Finally, on May 16, 1889, the San Diego Police Department was established and named its first police chief, Joseph Coyne.

      As the boom of the 1880s lured new settlers, San Diego Harbor prospered as well. As legend has it, the Stingaree District was formed when sailors came into San Diego Bay after long trips and would traverse the shallows of San Diego Bay in order to debark in the newly developing downtown area of San Diego. As the sailors traversed the shallows, they were often stung by stingrays, and so the name Stingaree was applied to the gas lamp quarter of San Diego. In the 1880s, this area was dominated by brothels, drug dens, and gambling halls, as well as the criminals who provided these illegal activities to sailors and other visitors. At the time, local law enforcement mostly overlooked the area, and residents learned to stay away from the district.

      In the mid-1880s, Wyatt Earp moved to San Diego, where he owned and operated three gambling halls in the Stingaree. The Stingaree also encompassed San Diego’s Chinatown, many inhabitants of which worked on fishing boats and the railroads.

      In 1915, San Diego hosted the Panama-California Exposition to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. This upcoming exposition required city officials to clean up the Stingaree district, resulting in police raids of the area. The exposition boosted the aircraft industry in San Diego, and, in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh made San Diego the starting point for the first-ever flight of his famous plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh later agreed to lend his name to San Diego’s new airport, the San Diego Municipal Airport—Lindbergh Field. The new airport was located on Pacific Highway and was built up with mud dredged from San Diego Bay. In 1919, the San Diego Harbor Commission and Harbor Department were established to administer the tidelands area.

      As San Diego faced the outbreak of World War II, the military developed Lindbergh Field into a modern aviation transportation center. The US Army Air Corps took over the airport in 1942, and Army engineers improved the existing runways to accommodate the heavy bombers that were manufactured in San Diego. The US Navy chose San Diego Harbor as an alternate base after Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor. Additionally, San Diego Harbor became the home of the San Diego Naval Training Center (NTC). Along with the military presence, related support industries and a large number of naval and aviation defense contractors sprang up on San Diego Bay. The US military maintained control of the San Diego Harbor until 1948, when it returned the responsibilities of law enforcement and bay security to the City of San Diego.

      SAN DIEGO HARBOR. On July 9, 1938, a Japanese training ship and the aircraft carrier USS Ranger CV-4 were moored at NAS North Island, in San Diego. Commissioned on June 4, 1934, the Ranger saw extensive service in World War II. (Courtesy of the San Diego Unified Port District.)

      LINDBERGH FIELD, 1928. This photograph shows large crowds

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