https://www.daytonpolicehistory.org/home daily 1.0 2021-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588431959959-JMVLGYSDOFTY42LBEHB4/DidYouKNOW1867.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588432079849-94ZIPVL3YSRZOHXSHZCH/DidYouKNOW1904.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588432199488-MSJ7W4T868K51CKE1BLA/DidYouKNOW1933.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588431595878-MBS628V90J9GI48LBCQK/DidYouKnow1948.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588431077532-AD3UEN651CAW3YV55B65/DidYouKnow1987.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588431775811-MYYRFEKT44YYL0WTR4M5/DidYouKNOW1991.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1610805550840-Y4CLHFQ092ZLYFE4A9DF/TheDeanDilingerandDaytonOH.png Home - The Dean, Dillinger, and Dayton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this story and with it comes two larger-than-life figures: John Dillinger, who would later be named the nation’s first “Public Enemy No. 1,” and Police Chief Rudy Wurstner, who would become the nation’s “Dean of Police Chiefs.” All three come into their own in different ways in the year 1903, making it the starting point for this story. While Dillinger was in and out of Dayton over a mere 5 months in 1933, Chief Wurstner served Dayton citizens over the course of 5 decades. Yet is it Dillinger who is best remembered nationally. This is the definitive tale of Dillinger in Dayton and brings to light his forlorn love affair. Readers will also be introduced to other gangsters and mobsters with Greater Dayton connections – such as local crime figure Al Fouts, the more infamous Chicago mobster George ‘Bugs’ Moran, gangster Al Karpis, and many others. The many figures and events from the Gem City’s past provide an astonishing untold legacy. The Dean, Dillinger, and Dayton, Ohio • Legend – Lore – Legacy is available online at www.amazon.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588430747329-6GYWT149V3VX7SJLHVAZ/The_Christmas_Killings_Book_Cover.jpg Home - The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice is an account of the 1992 murder spree investigated 25 years ago by four members of the Dayton police homicide squad. It is told from the perspective of the investigators both in the way the killings unfold for them in 1992 and as they recalled the callouts and suspects. A significant component of the story is based on a 2012 interview session with the four detectives that was conducted at "The Moraine Embassy" bar and grill, for decades a regular watering hole for newspaper reporters, court officials, and police. The book was written in documentary-style. It has many images of the detectives during the interview session, records from the investigative case file, newspaper articles and headlines, period and current photographs, maps depicting locations and the action as it recounted. In keeping with the style, it is delivered as if by screen narration. The actual verbatim radio transmissions between uniformed officers and dispatcher add a dynamic element to the story. The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice is available online at www.amazon.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588432435680-B6PX0CWTYEY414KUJGCV/Drenched_Uniforms_Cover_%28front%29.jpg Home - Drenched Uniforms and Battered Badges - How Dayton Police Emerged from the 1913 Flood Drenched Uniforms and Battered Badges - How Dayton Police Emerged from the 1913 Flood recounts the role of Dayton lawmen during one of the nation's worst natural catastrophes, Ohio's Great Flood. It tells how the police persevered against the terrible force of nature and how law enforcement pressed forward in its aftermath. As the levees were breached, 136 patrolmen, at great personal peril, rescued and aided the citizens of Dayton. Police officers acted on their own instincts in the first few days because they were in the field without lines of communication, transportation or supervision. The story describes the measures taken by those on the front line to safeguard the city of Dayton at the time of its greatest natural disaster. This commemorative book, written for the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood, includes more than 70 flood and police pictures, photographs of 25 patrol men and unique images of police artifacts from the period. 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Attendance records were not kept but park officials know the exhibit was visited by 20,000 children, making it a community success by DPHF's measure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588516112104-FEGIOUGF4GSUTK06MYU7/Dayton+Police+Exhibit+Renderings+Page+4.jpg Exhibits - “Bootleggers, Bandits, and Badges: From Dry Times to Hard Times in Dayton, Ohio” This exhibit recounts stories of the Temperance movement, Prohibition bootlegging, and Great Depression heists. This fascinating component of the proposed police museum (shown as "The Gangster Era" on the floor plan) opened on October 28, 2019 at Carillon Historical Park. This temporary exhibit is DPHF’s most ambitious project to date, and most popular presentation! It closed after a successful four-year run on December 31, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ead65ff48edc3660e4af210/1588518069764-CBAT7ERQ5XCEKW10UB0W/Dayton+Police+Exhibit+Renderings+Page+2a.JPG Exhibits - It is time for Dayton police history to be reintroduced in a permanent setting! When the 2008 Exhibit closed, there remained a desire to keep the history alive! In years since, the interest in the story of local law enforcement has manifested in publications, presentations, smaller exhibits, and even film accounts. The time has come to bring back together the police artifacts, intriguing photographs and compelling stories that were dispersed in 2008. In December 2015, DPHF engaged Exhibit Concepts, Inc. to illustrate an exhibit building based on an actual 1902 Dayton police patrol house. Interior concept renderings were completed as well. Now, DPH Foundation officials are taking the necessary steps to begin a campaign to raise $1.5 million and are actively engaged in discussions. 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