A 1931 night patrolSourced
Why add night officers?
Chicken theft.
During the Great Depression, chicken theft became a serious problem in Baltimore County in 1931. Police chief Carroll Stansbury assigned extra night officers to fight it.
The patrol's target
was in the henhouse.
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