Tom Dye’s collection began with Badge 418. That’s the number he was assigned when he joined the Akron Police Department in December 1969. Now the walls of his home are lined with tidy rows of historic ...

Appointed in 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free of vice and immorality Peter Zablocki - History ...

For more than two years, Michael Fanone’s muddied D.C. police badge was kept in a zip-top bag in an FBI evidence bin, dirt smeared across an imprint of the U.S. Capitol emblazoned on its face. The man ...

Law enforcement history was on display at the National Police Collector’s Show this weekend at the Davenport RiverCenter. From historical badges to challenge coins to police patches and everything in ...