FILE PATHEXPLORE DETROIT/DETROIT HISTORY
POSTWAR DETROIT

The City He Policed

Growth, nightlife, housing, traffic, precincts, newspapers and the changing streets of the late 1940s and 1950s.

Historic Detroit police patrol car traveling through a residential neighborhood
DETROIT CONTEXT

The postwar city around the cases.

Housing, traffic, nightlife, newspapers, precincts, and growth are gathered here as period context for the Detroit Ralph Palmer policed.

After wartime production, Detroit entered a period of intense industrial, residential and transportation change. The police career at the center of this project unfolded inside that shifting postwar city.

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