Oral history interviews of the St Paul Police Oral History Project. 1979-2008.

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Oral history interviews of the St Paul Police Oral History Project., 1979-2008.

Oral history interviews of the St Paul Police Oral History Project. 1979-2008.

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For this project, members of the St. Paul Police Department were interviewed representing a wide range of experiences reflected by their personal tribulations and successes. The subjects discussed in the interviews include police culture; dynamics between officers of varying ranks; drug enforcement; situations involving death and the response to such situations; influence of war experience on police work; training and use of weapons; role of religion and faith; the changing dynamics of the St. Paul Police Department when ethnic integration occurs within; gender and racial discrimination and barriers; civil unrest in the 1960s; upward mobility; citizens' expectations; occupational stress and fear; death of fellow officers; life outside the department; and retirement. Interviewed by Kate Cavett of HAND in HAND Productions and Fred Kaphingst.

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