(28609) Detroit Police Department, Riot Squad, Belle Isle, Detroit, 1943

Posted June 11th, 2012 by eclemens

Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1943
Detroit (Mich.) Police Dept.
Social Forces, Foundations & Change
Urban Affairs

A new unit of police officers, drawn from the motorcycle, traffic and mounted divisions, are trained in "commando tactics" on the Belle Isle Athletic Field. According to a Detroit News reporter, nearly 250 "husky police minutemen" were trained for riot duty in response to the civil unrest of June 1943.