Fire and Police Commission Records, 1879-2016

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains grant applications and reports, legal and administrative records of alleged misconduct, appeal procedures for those denied employment, FPC and Criminal Justice Programs correspondence, FPC and Metropolitan Milwaukee Criminal Justice Council meeting minutes, Homeland Security exercises, flood of 2010 records, crime statistics, training and equipment records, testing and recruitment information with an emphasis on minorities, rules and regulations, photographs, and improvement plans for the city, metropolitan area, and state regions. Also included are the legal and administrative records of several investigations of alleged misconduct by Fire and Police Department officials. Most notable are the cases of Daniel Kennedy (1879), Florian J. Ries (1888), and Edward Wischer (1951).