...Biography of Allan Pinkerton Gregory Williams CJS/250 Introduction to Security Mr. Jeremy Busch June 24, 2013 Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton is the name that is often associated with private security in the annals of police history. With his private detective agency, he left an unforgettable mark regarding the private investigation not only in America, but across the globe as well (Dempsey, 2007). This was reinforced by the company’s logo of the all-seeing eye. Pinkerton was born in 1819 in Scotland, and his father was a known police officer. He was not destined to be a law enforcer, as he opted for other careers, but following the political upheavals that manifested in Scotland, he was forced to change his mind. His family had no option but to flee Scotland, and settled in Illinois where he ran a cooperage—a profession that had never crossed his mind. Later on he became a deputy sheriff and was mandated to pursue the counterfeits products that were being transacted in the region. His investigative career commenced when he was transferred to Chicago after his efforts were recognized. He was given a job in the Treasury Department from which he formed a private police investigation unit that dealt with railroad crime. In 1857, Pinkerton’s Protective Police Patrol was developed and it contracted out private security services to local businesses. The agency grew and covered an area encompassing five states. After some successful...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton CJS250 Allan Pinkerton and the Birth of Private Security. Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland in August 1819. While he never meant to become involved in security or law enforcement, this career came about merely by happenstance. Mr. Pinkerton was a cooper-smith by trade, meaning he constructed barrels for breweries. Mr. Pinkerton ventured to a spot on an island to obtain the materials to construct these barrels and came across what he thought to be the encampment of some individuals being sought for crimes being committed on the mainland. When he alerted the sheriff to this camp, he teamed up with law enforcement to stake out the camp and fell into the position of detective. In 1849, Mr. Pinkerton became one of the first detectives appointed in Chicago, Illinois. In 1850, Mr. Pinkerton founded his own security and detective agency based on his principles of abiding by the laws of the land. Pinkerton had a partner at the beginning of this era by the name of Edward Rucker, who was an attorney in Chicago. The agency they started together was named the North-Western Police Agency and was later known as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. This agency is still in existence as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB. Some of the major events that involved the Pinkerton’s were the train robberies that became prevalent due to the expansion of rail lines and the ease...
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...Biography of Allen Pinkerton CJS/250 June/6/2012 Jeremy Busch Biography of Allen Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born on August, 25, 1819 in Scotland, Allan’s father was a police sergeant, but died unfortunately, when Allan was very young. In Scotland Allan worked as a cooper, a cooper is someone that makes or repair wooden barrels and tubes. Later on in Allan’s young life he found himself involved in Chartism, this led to an arrest warrant to be issued for Allan. Pinkerton fled to the United States in 1842 and settled down in the city of Chicago. Allen Pinkerton stayed in Chicago for only a short while, he eventually moved to a town called Dundee, this place was located in a county called Kane, there he started his own cooper shop. Allan was asked to do occasional jobs for the Kane county sheriff office and he became very good at detective work and tracking down criminal. The Kane county sheriff department eventually hired Pinkerton as a deputy sheriff. At the age of thirty-five Allan Pinkerton was hired by the Cook County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy, along with that job he was also contracted by the federal government and numerous other private employers to protect their best interest. In 1855 Pinkerton helped establish a railroad policing agency known as the North West Police Agency, he was giving ten thousand dollars to do this, Pinkerton was only Thirty-five years old. Due to the poor policing of the local police during Pinkerton’s time, he felt he could...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton is a very important person who has done many things in the criminal justice field. Allan Pinkerton was born in Scotland in 1819. ("Spartacus Educational", n.d.). He was the founder of one of the best detective agencies. Allan Pinkerton was the son of a police sergeant who got injured on the job so he was not able to work, Because of this Pinkerton ended up growing up in poverty. His father ended up dying due to a prisoner that was in his custody. Allan Pinkerton ended up working as a barrel maker that eventually ran afoul of local authority over his membership in the Chartist movement. Eventually Pinkerton found himself being asked to be the Chicago’s first detective. With the growth of his new family and the financial stress starting, Pinkerton made the decision to open his own investigative agency. In 1850 Allan Pinkerton officially opened his first detective agency, in the heart of Chicago, called, “The Pinkerton National Detective Agency” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2013). One of the things that Allan Pinkerton did was that he promised to never except bribes, compromise with criminals, and also to help local law enforcement agencies. Though he would help he didn’t take all cases such as he refused to take divorce cases or any case that would case scandals with his clients. Around 1850 he formed Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, with the motto "We Never Sleep" and an unblinking eye as its symbol. This would lead to...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton Biography of Allan Pinkerton According to Hunt (2009), “This is a biography of Allan Pinkerton a pioneer and a leader in criminal investigation. He was born on August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland to William and Isabell Pinkerton. When he came to the U.S. he became a member of Chartists, a radical political group that advocates abolishment of slavery, better wages, and women's right, and met Joan his wife. In 1850, he created a detective agency which is named The Northwest Police Agency and noted that his greatest accomplishment was the capture of Rose Greenhow. According to Pinkerton (2005), “Pinkerton did not follow in the footsteps of his father at first instead he trained as a cooper and educated to make barrels. In 1842, after he finished his apprenticeship, Pinkerton left his country to go to the United States. He remained in Chicago and put up a cooper's shop. In 1843 Pinkerton repositioned his business to Dundee, in Kane County, Illinois. He come across and detained a group of fraudsters in that year. The outcome changed Pinkerton's life. He became entailed with police work and was assigned deputy sheriff of Kane County in 1846. He soon transferred to a more like position in Cook County, with a headquarters in Chicago. According to Pinkerton (2010), “In 1850 Pinkerton left his job from Chicago's new police force in order to organize a private detective agency that specialized in railway theft cases. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency...
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...Allan Pinkerton 1819-84, American detective, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, b. Glasgow, Scotland. A cooper by trade, he immigrated to the United States in 1842 and opened in West Dundee, Ill., a cooper's shop, which became a station on the Underground Railroad. Allan Pinkerton was a hard-working man, and realized that working for himself would be a much better plan for himself and family. His wish to improve his business led him down the path to being a detective. Pinkerton realized that good quality raw materials for his barrels were obtained on a small abandoned island close to town. He made a decision that instead of paying others to give him the materials; he would move to the island and get it himself. However, once he got to the island, he saw signs of occupancy. Knowing that there were some counterfeiters in the area, he construed this could be the hiding place that had long evaded officials. His discovery and capture of a band of counterfeiters led to his appointment (1846) as county sheriff and, in 1850, to an appointment as the first city detective on the Chicago police force. He established in the same year a private detective agency, which had considerable success in solving train- and express-company robberies. In 1861 he foiled a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and in the Civil War Pinkerton organized and directed an espionage system behind the Confederate lines. (The Columbia Encyclopedia) In 1850 Pinkerton resigned from Chicago’s...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton CJS 250 April 2, 2011 John Feltgen Biography of Allan Pinkerton The name Pinkerton is synonymous with private eyes around the world. The son of a police sergeant, Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1819. His father was injured on-the-job and died as a result of his injuries in 1828, thus causing the family to live in poverty. For a short period he worked as a barrel maker to support his family. Then in 1842, at the age of 23, young Allan Pinkerton decided to migrate to the United States. He settled in Kane County, Illinois, where he opened a cooper’s shop that would eventually become a station on the Underground Railroad (Allan Pinkerton, 2010). It was just happenstance that Allan Pinkerton became interested in detective work. His accidental uncovering of a group of counterfeiters led to his interest in detective work and an appointment to Kane County Sheriff in 1846. Within two years of becoming an investigator, Pinkerton had racked up more arrests than any other officers on the police force. Just four years later, Pinkerton was appointed first city detective on the Chicago police force (Allan Pinkerton, 2010). That same year (1850) he opened the Pinkerton Detective Agency, an agency still thought of as the first modern detective agency (Pinkertons, 2004). The agency attracted national fame for solving train and express-company robberies. In 1861, during an investigation of a train robbery, agents from the...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton Mona London CJS/250 Introduction Security 05/26/2013 In this paper, we will examine the life of Allan Pinkerton. We will examine how his history with law enforcement influenced the major events that involve the Pinkerton Detective Agency during his life. The last topic of discussion will cover the impact of the agencies innovations on law enforcement and the private security industry. Allan Pinkerton was born August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. He began working at an early age as a cooper and very active in the Chartist movement during these years as well. When the Chartist movement was at a slow down, Pinkerton immigrated to the United States. (Biography Allan Pinkerton’s Detective Agency: PBS, (2009). Pinkerton settled based his new roots in Chicago around 1842. And at that time, he decided to join the law enforcement agency. During his law enforcement career, he was promoted to Deputy Sherriff. While in office, he organized a force of detectives. Who focused on the capture of thieves, who were stealing railway property and this was how his organization developed as; The Pinkerton Nation Detective Agency in 1852. (Clifford, (2004). Some major events that occurred during Pinkerton’s detective years were; in 1961 Pinkerton was investigating the Confederates sabotage of a railroad in Maryland, which had planned on assassinating the then President-elect, Abraham Lincoln on his way to the inauguration in Washington, D.C. (National Park Service:...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born the son of an injured policeman who could no longer work. So, when he was old enough, Allan Pinkerton began working to provide for the family. He then met his bride and fled to Canada. He had several different jobs before relocating back to the United States. He was hired on two different occasions by the local branch of the Treasury Department to pursue counterfeiters and once by the Cook County Sheriff's department to help rescue two Michigan girls who had been abducted. Pinkerton tracked them down and shot one of the kidnappers. This dramatic incident lead to a more-or-less full-time gig as a Cook County Deputy Sheriff. Allan Pinkerton had a long and varied career. Through his career he was called many different names, such as a traitor and a patriot. But most of all he was a detective. He founded one of the most famous private detective agencies in the world that still bears his name. Allan Pinkerton was responsible for the apprehension of counterfeiters and kidnappers, train robbers and embezzlers and radicals. Allan Pinkerton was also a prolific author, one of the first private eye writers. In 1850, Allan Pinkerton founded his detective agency based on his own incorruptible principles. His values became the cornerstone of a respected agency that still exists today. His reputation preceded him during the Civil War. He headed the organization responsible for spying on the confederacy. At war’s end, he went back to running...
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...Allan j. Pinkerton was a Scottish American detective and spy best known for creating the Pinkerton national detective agency. He is the man that protected Abraham Lincoln as he needed to go through Baltimore even tho it was not the safest thing to do but there was no other way. Allan Pinkerton developed a friendship with a man named James Lockett. James lockett gave the information to Allan pinkerton about the assassination attempt that may happen in Baltimore. This made Pinkerton realize the threat was the railroad and then transitioning the threat was against the man. He changed from protecting an asset to protecting the man that will be the president and a man that will be apart of the US history. In order for Abraham Lincoln to get to Washington for his inauguration (as stated ) Lincoln had to pass through Baltimore,there was no other good way getting to Washington. At the time Baltimore was not a good time for him to go because he didn’t have the sufficient friends in town...
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...found in a wide variety of organizations, ranging from government agencies and industrial plants to apartment buildings and schools. Sufficiently large organizations may have their own proprietary security systems or may purchase security services by contract from specialized security organizations. The origins of security systems are obscure, but techniques for protecting the household, such as the use of locks and barred windows, are very ancient. As civilizations developed, the distinction between passive and active security was recognized, and responsibility for active security measures was vested in police and fire-fighting agencies. By the mid-19th century, private organizations such as those of Philip Sorensen in Sweden and Allan Pinkerton in the United States had also begun to build efficient large-scale security services. Pinkerton’s organization offered intelligence, counterintelligence, internal security, investigative, and law...
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...CJS 250 Full Course - Introduction to Security http://www.learnyourcourse.com/cjs-250/83-cjs-250-full-course.html CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 1 CJS 250 Week 1 CheckPoint - Historical Laws and Security CJS 250 Week 1 Assignment - Allan Pinkerton CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 2 CJS 250 Week 2 DQ: - 1 - Security gaps analysis for real-life locations CJS 250 Week 2 DQ: - 2 - Consider the definition of security given on pp. 71-72 of the text. Can any target environment ever be 100% stable or 100% predictable? Why or why not? Why does the author stress that security efforts for any target environment will be a “never-ending process” and that security objectives will change over time? How can complacency pose a problem for security professionals? CJS 250 Week 2 Appendix B - Threat and Risk Assessment CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 3 CJS 250 Week 3 CheckPoint [Appendix C] - Risk Management CJS 250 Week 3 Assignment - Security Objective Components CJS 250 Full Course - WEEK 4 CJS 250 Week 4 DQ: - 1 - While it may be ideal for security planners to utilize or install the latest technology, it may not always be practical. How do you think a security professional can balance the limitations, such as budget or space, of a particular environment with the need for keeping abreast of the latest industry technology and trends? How much knowledge of technology do you think security professionals should have? How broad or detailed should that knowledge be? CJS 250 Week 4 DQ: -...
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...Carlos Austin-Hill Prof. Passerini ENCV-0027-80C October 20, 2014 Word Count: 617 Private Investigator Recently, there has been more TV programs and movies being made based on private investigators. A private investigator duties include gathering information on unlawful crimes. They also observe and document activities of individuals to detect unlawful acts or to obtain evidence for cases, using items such as, binoculars or spy video cameras. I am interested in being a private investigator because I love to solve problems and mysteries like Sherlock Holmes. I also have a strong desire to help others, plus it is adventurous and inquisitive. Being in this type of field also offers many services from verifying people’s background, cheating spouse investigations, finding missing people, and computer crime investigations. From the history of a Private Investigator it has been around for quite a while. A French soldier, criminal and privateer, named Eugene Francois Vidocq, founded the first known private detective agency in 1833. The name of the agency was called “Le bureau des renseignments”. It was not until the early 1900s when Private Investigators became more known, and since then the private detective industry has grown with the need of the public. “Social issues like infidelity and unionization have impacted the industry and created new types of work, as has the need for insurance, and with it insurance fraud, criminal defense investigations, the invention of low...
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...Allan Pinkerton was born August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a Scottish detective and also a founder of a famous private American detective agency. He was the son of a police sergeant by the name of William Pinkerton who left his family in great abjection when he passed away and his mother Isabella McQueen. Later on in life Allan started to work as a cooper. Soon after that he became involved in Chartism. While being a part of that his activities developed in a warrant for his arrest. In 1842, Allan came to the United States, settling in Chicago. He moved next year to a town close of Dundee in Kane County, he put together a cooper’s shop there. He cut wood on a deserted island one day that he discovered. Later on in that day captured gang counterfeiters. He became deputy sheriff a year later in 1846. Soon afterwards he became deputy sheriff of Cook County, with headquarters in Chicago. Pinkerton provided America with a national policy system at a time when there was very little law enforcement. He gave up the responsibility as being a part of the new police force in Chicago in the year 1850. He wanted to do other things such as, organizing a private detective agency that concentrated on specific areas like railway theft cases. His agency became one of the most famous organizations of its own field. The name of it was, “The Pinkerton National Detective Agency.” The agency captured principals in a 700,000 Adams Express Company theft in the year 1866. The business...
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...Allen Pinkerton By Phillip Caudillo CJS/250 Instructor Mark Morrison Biography of Allan Pinkerton At the age of 35, Allan Pinkerton worked for the Chicago, Cook County Sheriff's Department as a deputy. In addition Mr. Pinkerton was contracted with the federal government to investigate numerous fraudulent and criminal activities, such as counterfeiting protecting the post office from robbery, and special operation assignments that involved detective work. In 1855 six Midwestern railroad representatives contacted Pinkerton offering him 10 thousand dollars for his professional service to organize and develop a special police unit specifically for protecting the railroad investment. Later this special police unit became known as the "North West Police Agency" (Bio True Story, 2008). During this time public law enforcement officials were having a great deal of trouble maintaining a secure-safe level of order and peace throughout most of the communities due to the increasing crime rates. Public law enforcements inability to protect and serve brought a great deal of negative attention and scrutiny upon most police departments. In return, this labeled law enforcement as an ineffective-inadequate means of protection. The failure of the police was the leading factor that gave Pinkerton the ideology to establish a private security business that would be capable of handling certain situations the public law enforcement had previously failed at. i n 1850 Pinkerton founded...
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