Bishop L. Robinson
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Bishop L. Robinson was the first African American police commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of Coppin State University and the University of Baltimore school of law,[1] Robinson joined the department in 1952 and rose to the rank of commissioner in 1984. [2] For Robinson's first 14 years in the department until 1966, African American officers were limited in rank, segregated from patrolling in white neighborhoods, and barred from the use of squad cars[3] during a time period where the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, and Black Power movements took place. Robinson is also a founding member of NOBLE[4], a national organization of African American police officers from various American cities.
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- ^ University of Baltimore School of Law alumni"When it’s Broken, You’ve Got to Fix It".
- ^ WJZ News Online "Baltimore Renames City Police Headquarters".
- ^ Simon, David [1991] (2006). "two", Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, 4th, Owl Books, 110-113. ISBN 0-8050-8075-9.
- ^ NOBLE National "Founding Members of NOBLE".
