Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! What we know: This…
Read More >December Artifact Detective: Cartoon Cop
Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! Flintstones police officer, original…
Read More >November Artifact Detective: Nothing improves your driving like a ticket
Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! Pin. Collection of the…
Read More >Memory and Tribute: the Relevance of the NLEM’s Memorial Collection
In the past several weeks, I have spent part of my time focusing on NLEM’s Memorial Collection. Since 1992, visitors to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial have demonstrated their emotional connection to and regard for law enforcement’s fallen by…
Read More >October Artifact Detective: Wild Bill Hickok Items
Please help us uncover some of the stories behind our objects. Leave a comment with anything you may know about the featured item. We welcome all information, and we’d appreciate sources and citations when possible. Thanks! Collection of the NLEM,…
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Perspectives from the Donor of the William Benson Collection
This post was written by a friend of the Museum, Officer Eric Stolzman, (Retired #490), Yale Department of Police Services. Officer Stolzman served in New Haven, Conn. and donated his collection to the Museum in 2006. Collecting has always been…
Read More >September Artifact Detective: “We Chirp for the Cleveland Press” Button
By Jeni Ashton, Associate Curator The National Law Enforcement Museum has collected more than 8,000 artifacts to-date, so we can’t always devote as much time to researching individual objects as we would like. Please help us uncover some of the…
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An Educator’s First Visit to the NLEM’s Collections Facility
By Dean MacLeod, Community Education Specialist Have you ever been invited into the inner sanctum of a special place where you once might have suspected you’d have no business going? In early June, I made my first visit to the…
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