[CW] Cleveland Police & FBI

[Richard Knoppow]

    As always I am interested in the biography of those on this 
list. As part of my general interest in the history of 
wireless/radio I am fascinated by the history of police radio. I 
think I was vaguely aware CW had been used but not with any 
detail. I worked briefly as a radio operator for the Los Angeles 
Police Department, which gives me some understanding of it.
     I wonder if anyone has ever written a history of police 
radio? If not its a potentially very interesting subject. I am 
aware that voice networks existed in the mid-west in the mid 
1930s. Perhaps they were actually CW networks. The police were 
often reluctant to use radio in its early days. I think because 
many officers felt it infringed on their autonomy (which it did). 
I think there was also resistance to using the police telephone 
systems which preceded it. In any case, a book on police 
communications (it should include the telephone or telegraph 
systems too) would be of very great interest, at least to me. 
Perhaps such a history exists and I am just ignorant of it.

On 6/30/2021 7:07 PM, DAVID EISENBERGER via CW wrote:
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL