CITY OF San Diego Police Department America's Finest City Challenge Coin

Description: CITY OF San Diego Police Department America's Finest City Challenge Coin.Prior to the establishment of the San Diego Police Department, law enforcement services were provided by the San Diego City Marshal beginning in 1850. The first City Marshal, Agoston Haraszthy, appointed Richard Freeman a marshal, making Freeman the first African American lawman in California.[5] In 1852, due to lack of willing individuals to take up the position, the City Marshal disbanded.[6]In 1885 the office of City Marshal was reestablished, and in 1889, with a new city charter, the police department was established.[6] All but one police officer at the time of the establishment were White, except for one Hispanic sergeant.[7] The sixth police chief, Edward Beshyhead, also founded the San Diego Union, a predecessor to the current San Diego Union-Tribune.[7]In 1939, the department moved into their headquarters on Harbor Drive, which they used until moving to their current building in 1986;[8] in 1998 the former headquarters was placed onto the National Register of Historic Places.[9] During World War II, one third of the department was drafted into the United States Military.[6] In 1973, the first uniformed female officer joined the department.[10]During the 1980s, the police department was at the center of a case that came before the Supreme Court of the United States and Ninth Circuit, Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983),[11][12] which held unconstitutional laws that allow police to demand that "loiterers" and "wanderers" provide identification; this continues to affect other departments nationwide.[13] The decade also saw officers responding to the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre;[14] it was also a decade where the department had the highest mortality rate for officers of any major American city.[15]

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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

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