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Jason Mosher

Sheriff's Journal

Vernon County Sheriff.

What has become of our American police? Part 2

Saturday, April 25, 2015

\On July 15, 1912, a notorious gambler in New York City by the name of Herman Rosenthal walked out of the Metropole Café on West 43rd street and was shot to death by several men waiting just outside. This murder would later be referred to by some as the "trial of the century" and resulted in the trial, conviction, and execution of a New York Police Lieutenant by the name of Charles Becker, for his role in the death of Rosenthal. This would also become the first American police officer to receive the death penalty.

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