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This is a list of notable New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers.
Early years: 1845–1865
Name | Portrait | Rank | Life | Service years | Comments | Ref. |
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Francis J. Banfield | No image available |
Sergeant | 1827–1883 | 1857–1883 | Officer in charge of the State Armory at Second Avenue and Twenty-First Street. He was also a member of the "Steamboat Squad" later in his career. | [1][2] |
James Z. Bogart | No image available |
Captain | 1821–1881 | 1857–1870 | During the New York Draft Riots, Bogart led a police force against rioters looting the home of J.S. Gibbons, a cousin of New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. | [2] |
Charles N. Brackett | No image available |
Captain | 1831–1888 | ?–1888 | [2][3] | |
Samuel Brower | No image available |
Captain | Police official who led a police detachment to cut down African Americans who had been hanged from lamp posts. | [1][2] | ||
Cornelius Burdick | No image available |
Captain | ?–1865 | He led thirty-two police officers of the "Broadway Squad" who relieved Sergeant Francis Banfield and his men who were defending state armory. | [1][2][4] | |
John Cameron | No image available |
Captain | 1807–1873 | 1857–1873 | Organized the defense of several key buildings in Manhattan including the State Armory and the Union Steam Works during the New York Draft Riots. | [2] |
Daniel C. Carpenter | No image available |
Inspector | 1815–1866 | 1847–1873 | Police detective who led squads against rioters in Broadway, the Fourth Ward, Second Avenue and other areas. | [1] |
Theron S. Copeland | ![]() |
Captain | 1831–1905 | 1855–1903 | Drill officer who co-led a police force with Captain John Dickson against rioters in Clarkston Street who were attacking local African American residents. It was their detachment which discovered the body of William Jones who had been tied to a tree and tortured to death. | [1][2][5] |
Abram P. DeVoursney | No image available |
Captain | 1827–1911 | One of the officers who defended the New York Tribune during the New York draft riots. | [1][6] | |
John F. Dickson | No image available |
Captain | 1821–1880 | 1850–1880 | Co-led a police force with drill officer Theron Copeland who defeated rioters in Clarkston Street and chased off mobs attacking African Africans. His men discovered the body of William Jones who had been tied to a tree and tortured to death. | [1][2][6] |
George W. Dilks | No image available |
Inspector | 1816–1901 | 1848–1888 | Led a force of two hundred officers into Second Avenue and recaptured the Union Steam Works, then being used as a headquarters and rallying point for rioters along the East Side Manhattan, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting against roughly five hundred rioters. | [1][6] |
Frederick Ellison | No image available |
Sergeant | Patrolman who led one of the first detachments against rioters, he was cut off from his men during the fighting at Third Avenue and Forty-Fourth Street and severely beaten by a mob. He remained unconscious throughout the fighting and was not rescued until the arrival of Sergeant Wade several hours later. | [1] | ||
John S. Folk | ![]() |
Superintendent | 1811–1885 | 1851–1885 | First police chief of the Brooklyn Municipal Police. He defended both the New York Tribune and the Brooklyn Eagle during the Draft Riot of 1863. | [7] |
James Irving | No image available |
Captain | 1836–1885 | 1857–1876 | [8] | |
John Jourdan | ![]() |
Captain | 1831–1870 | 1855–1870 | Led group of sixty men from the Sixth Precinct which battled rioters for over five hours while patrolling African American settlements north and east of the Five Points district during the first day of rioting. | [1][2] |
James Leonard | No image available |
Inspector | 1820–1869 | 1845–1869 | [9] | |
John W. Mangin | ![]() |
Sergeant | 1828–1897 | 1860–1897 | Officer in command of a police detachment with fellow Sergeant S.B. Smith. Their later arrival eventually resulted in the defeat of rioters at Third Avenue and Forty-Fourth Street. | [1][2][10] |
Robert A. McCredie | No image available |
Sergeant | Known as "Fighting Mac", he participated in the fighting at Third Avenue and Forty-Fourth Street. He and Sergeant Wolfe spearheaded an attack against rioters as police were slowly being driven down Third Avenue. McCredie forced the rioters back to Forty-Fifth Street but were eventually overwhelmed. | [1][2] | ||
Jeremiah Petty | No image available |
Captain | 1814–1889 | 1857–1887 | [2][11] | |
Galen Porter | No image available |
Captain | 1807–1883 | 1849–1865 | Police official under Superintendent Kennedy involved in organizing police detachments against rioters. During the first hours, he sent sixty patrolmen to reinforce police against rioters on Third Avenue. | [1][2] |
Sergeant Van Orden | No image available |
Sergeant | Officer who defended the State Arsenal at Seventh Ave. and 35th Street. against rioters during the first day of rioting. He had been ordered by Superintendent Kennedy to protect the building after reports that members of the Knights of the Golden Circle would attempt to capture the arsenal. | [1] | ||
Sergeant Wade | No image available |
Sergeant | Officer who commanded police during the fighting at Third Avenue and 44th street. Although the rioters initially forced police to retreat, he regrouped the remaining patrolman and managed to disperse the mob with the later arrival of Sergeants John Mangin and S.B. Smith. | [1] | ||
Sergeant Wolfe | No image available |
Sergeant | A participant in the fighting against rioters at Third Avenue and 44th street, he and Sergeant Robert McCredie forced the rioters back to Forty-Fifth Street but were eventually overwhelmed by the thousands of advancing rioters. | [1] | ||
Johannes C. Slott | No image available |
Captain | 1812–1874 | 1857–1870 | He and Captain George Walling led an advanced guard into Ninth Avenue but forced to retreat under heavy fire from rioters. | [1][12] |
Stephen B. Smith | No image available |
Sergeant | He and Sergeant John Mangin led a detachment of police officers who helped Sergeant Wade defeat rioters at Third Avenue and 44th street. | [1][2] | ||
Francis C. Speight | No image available |
Inspector | 1816–1877 | 1845–1877 | Commanded police forces guarding the Broadway draft office. A number of his officers, including Sergeants Wade, Mangin, McCredie and Wolfe, later participated in fighting rioters at Third Avenue and 44th street. | [1][2] |
Peter Squires | No image available |
Captain | 1815–1863 | 1847–1863 | [13] | |
Henry V. Steers | ![]() |
Inspector | 1832–1917 | 1857–1892 | [14] | |
Thomas S. Steers | No image available |
Captain | 1804–1884 | 1848–1870 | One of the earliest police officials appointed to the Metropolitan police force; also played a prominent role in the Draft Riot of 1863. | [2][15] |
Thomas Woolsey Thorne | No image available |
Inspector | 1823–1885 | 1857–1885 | Police official who commanded the 26th Precinct, operating from the basement of City Hall, and organized the defense of the New York Tribune. He was also a participant in the Police Riot of 1857. | [1][2] |
Jacob B. Warlow | No image available |
Captain | 1818–1890 | 1851–1875 | Led detachment from the First Precinct against rioters in the waterfront area and later took part in the defense of the New York Tribune. | [1][2] |
George W. Walling | ![]() |
Captain | 1823–1891 | 1847–1885 | Police official who organized the first "Strong Arm Squad" which was responsible for breaking up the Honeymoon Gang in 1853. Sided with Mayor Fernando Wood during the Police Riot of 1857 but later served a warrant for the mayor's arrest. He played a major role during the draft riots breaking up several large mobs in the Bowery and other nearby districts. | [1][2] |
Post-Civil War era: 1866–1899
Name | Portrait | Rank | Life | Service years | Comments | Ref. |
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Anthony Allaire | ![]() |
Inspector | 1820–1903 | 1865–1902 | Credited for the breakup of many street gangs during the post-Civil War era, most notably the Slaughter House Gang and the Dutch Mob, and the arrest of murderer Daniel McFarland in 1869. | |
William C. F. Berghold | ![]() |
Captain | 1838–1909 | 1864–1895 | ||
Nicholas Brooks | ![]() |
Inspector | 1844–1925 | 1867–1906 | ||
Edmund Brown | ![]() |
Captain | 1837–1908 | 1864–1903 | [16][17][18][19] | |
Thomas F. Byrnes | ![]() |
Captain | 1842–1910 | 1863–1895 | Headed the NYPD Detective Bureau from 1880 until 1895. During his career, he was responsible for the arrests of countless gang leaders and other criminals of the era. He was also the detective in charge of the murder investigation of suspected Jack the Ripper victim Old Shakespeare. | [1] |
James Campbell | ![]() |
Captain | 1836–1922 | 1863–1903 | [20][21] | |
Patrick Campbell | ![]() |
Superintendent | 1827–1908 | 1870–1895 | [22] | |
Edward Carpenter | ![]() |
Captain | 1847–? | 1869–1892? | ||
Philip Cassidy | ![]() |
Captain | 1841–1892 | 1870–1892 | ||
William H. Clinchy | ![]() |
Captain | 1844–1906 | 1865–1892 | ||
Peter Conlin | ![]() |
Inspector | 1841–1905 | 1869–1897 | ||
Timothy J. Creedon | No image available |
Captain | 1840–1936 | 1864–1902 | Police official and Civil War hero implicated in police corruption investigations during the 1890s. Admitted that he had paid $15,000 to "fixers" for Tammany Hall in exchange for his position. | [1][23][24] |
Joseph M. Dorcy | No image available |
Detective | Police detective who pursued and captured a number of high-profile criminals, most notably, Whyos gang member Johnny Dolan in 1875 and embezzler Leon L.J. Bernard in 1876. | [1] | ||
Thomas L. Druhan | ![]() |
Inspector | 1844–1925 | 1870–1906 | ||
Joseph B. Eakins | ![]() |
Inspector | 1844–1908 | 1866–1895 | ||
John W. Eason | ![]() |
Captain | 1843–1903 | 1864–1903 | [16] | |
Michael Foley | No image available |
Captain | 1845–1920 | 1876–1878 | Advancing thru the NYPD ranks as patrolman, roundsman, and then 10th Precinct Captain. Constantly vigilant for nefarious operators of "disorderly houses" and local criminals like Owen Geoghegan. | [25][26] |
Ira S. Garland | ![]() |
Inspector | 1830–1902 | 1858–1890 |