William J. Quinn
William J. Quinn (April 23, 1883 – October 10, 1963) was a San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) chief. A native of San Francisco, California, he attended Lincoln Grammar School, Sacred Heart College and studied law at Saint Ignatius College (now the University of San Francisco), graduating in 1925. He walked his first police beat in 1906.He served as chief of police in San Francisco from January 1, 1929, until February 15, 1940. Quinn presided over the modernization of the SFPD and is credited with establishing the first juvenile bureau and putting radios in police cars. He was chief during the Jessie Scott Hughes murder trial of Frank Egan and the 1934 San Francisco General Strike on the waterfront where he took a rock to the head, and during the period of the investigations by Edwin Atherton who published the Atherton Report on police graft and corruption.
Quinn died on October 10, 1963, at the Livermore Sanitorium. He was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Keerthana Gnanapradeepan, Julia I-Ju Leu, Subhasree Basu, Thibaut Barnoud, Madeline Good, Joyce V Lee, William J Quinn, Che-Pei Kung, Rexford Ahima, Joseph A Baur, Kathryn E Wellen, Qin Liu, Zachary T Schug, Donna L George, Maureen E MurphyGet full text
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4by Arielle Glatman Zaretsky, Christoph Konradt, Fabien Dépis, James B. Wing, Radhika Goenka, Daniela Gomez Atria, Jonathan S. Silver, Sunglim Cho, Amaya I. Wolf, William J. Quinn, Julie B. Engiles, Dorothy C. Brown, Daniel Beiting, Jan Erikson, David Allman, Michael P. Cancro, Shimon Sakaguchi, Li-Fan Lu, Christophe O. Benoist, Christopher A. HunterGet full text
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5by William J. Quinn, III, Jing Jiao, Tara TeSlaa, Jason Stadanlick, Zhonglin Wang, Liqing Wang, Tatiana Akimova, Alessia Angelin, Patrick M. Schäfer, Michelle D. Cully, Caroline Perry, Piotr K. Kopinski, Lili Guo, Ian A. Blair, Louis R. Ghanem, Michael S. Leibowitz, Wayne W. Hancock, Edmund K. Moon, Matthew H. Levine, Evgeniy B. Eruslanov, Douglas C. Wallace, Joseph A. Baur, Ulf H. BeierGet full text
Published 2020-12-01
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6by Dhanendra Tomar, Fabián Jaña, Zhiwei Dong, William J. Quinn, III, Pooja Jadiya, Sarah L. Breves, Cassidy C. Daw, Subramanya Srikantan, Santhanam Shanmughapriya, Neeharika Nemani, Edmund Carvalho, Aparna Tripathi, Alison M. Worth, Xueqian Zhang, Roshanak Razmpour, Ajay Seelam, Stephen Rhode, Anuj V. Mehta, Michael Murray, Daniel Slade, Servio H. Ramirez, Prashant Mishra, Glenn S. Gerhard, Jeffrey Caplan, Luke Norton, Kumar Sharma, Sudarsan Rajan, Darius Balciunas, Dayanjan S. Wijesinghe, Rexford S. Ahima, Joseph A. Baur, Muniswamy MadeshGet full text
Published 2019-03-01
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