The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851. The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks gang...
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Louisiana San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, 1851 and 1856, San Francisco, California San Luis Obispo Vigilance Committee, 1850s, San Luis Obispo...
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Vigilantism in the United States (category Abuse of the legal system)
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851 and reorganized in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in San Francisco...
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in 1856 was James F. Curtis a former member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The SFPD is one of the pioneering forces for modern law enforcement...
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Mary Floyd Williams (category UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni)
University of California, with a dissertation on the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. Mary Floyd Williams was from Oakland, California, the daughter of Edwards...
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Department Resolve to Stop Violence Project San Francisco Committee of Vigilance San Francisco District Attorney's Office San Francisco Bay Area portal...
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1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee (2016) excerpt Agee, Christopher Lowen (2014). The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan...
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Montana Vigilantes (category History of Montana)
of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance that existed in 1850s California to bring order to lawless communities in and around the gold fields of Alder...
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Porter Garnett (category Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area)
Bohemian Club. San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851; Garnett, Porter (1910-01-01). Papers of the San Francisco Committee of vigilance of 1851. I. Publications...
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Ned McGowan (lawyer) (category Lawyers from San Francisco)
joined the outcry and was instrumental in the creation of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The vigilantes began to take the law into their own...
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