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Caprock Chronicles: Lubbock Police Department centennial
Monte Monroe
Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired Texas Tech librarian. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Monte Monroe, Ph.D. He is an archivist at the Southwest/Special Collection Library on the campus of Texas Tech University.
On May 11, 2021, the mayor and city council officially recognized the Lubbock Police Department for 100 years of service, hosting a public exhibit in the lobby of Citizens Tower and by proclamation.
The LPD’s growth followed patterns of cities elsewhere during nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sheriffs, night watchmen, and city marshals addressed law enforcement during the early years, as well as after Lubbock’s incorporation in 1909. City marshal’s duties ranged from maintaining peace and preventing accidents between automobiles and horses.
The 21 people present for the first night of the latest class of the Franklin County Sheriff s Office s Citizens Police Academy all had different reasons for being there.
Some had always admired law enforcement and wanted an inside look into the profession. Others seated in the room at a sheriff s support services building were interested in one day pursuing a career in law enforcement themselves.
One participant said he simply wanted to see what his tax dollars were funding.
Whatever their reasons for attending, Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said he mainly has one reason for offering the program: transparency. What s a better way to let the public know what we do than something like this? Baldwin asked shortly before he would introduce himself last month at the first of what would be 13 weekly sessions. We re a public agency, and our job is to serve the community, and we can only do that if we have a good relationship.