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The single deadliest event in national law enforcement history occurred in Milwaukee on November 24, 1917, when nine officers and two citizens were killed in a bomb blast. The bomb exploded inside the assembly of the Central Police Station at Broadway and Oneida Street, now known as Wells Street. Police were not the intended target. [https://city.milwaukee.gov/police/About-MPD/Memorial-Page/1917-Bombing More...] | The single deadliest event in national law enforcement history occurred in Milwaukee on November 24, 1917, when nine officers and two citizens were killed in a bomb blast. The bomb exploded inside the assembly of the Central Police Station at Broadway and Oneida Street, now known as Wells Street. Police were not the intended target. [https://city.milwaukee.gov/police/About-MPD/Memorial-Page/1917-Bombing More...] | ||
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prohis
"prohis" was a slang term for federal Prohibition agents, who were tasked with enforcing the ban on alcohol during the Prohibition era (1920–1933). The term comes from the shortening and slang-ification of "prohibition".
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1917 and the bomb that went off...
The single deadliest event in national law enforcement history occurred in Milwaukee on November 24, 1917, when nine officers and two citizens were killed in a bomb blast. The bomb exploded inside the assembly of the Central Police Station at Broadway and Oneida Street, now known as Wells Street. Police were not the intended target. More...
