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California Highway Patrol (Images of America) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Mattos
Creator: Erik Estrada
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 100426
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0738556203
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.209794
EAN: 9780738556208
ASIN: 0738556203
Publication Date: April 16, 2008
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Product Description
The California Highway Patrol has its roots in the early 1920s motorcycle traffic cops employed by counties and cities. The CHP became a separate state entity in 1929 and has grown from the early traffic enforcement role to that of one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the United States. Their responsibilities range from patrolling the freeways and county roads of California to providing security for the state capital and other state buildings to protecting the governor and visiting dignitaries from around the world. The CHP has marshaled its forces to restore and maintain peace in times of war, civil unrest, or natural disasters.
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 Great coffee table book July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The pictures are great. The stories are OK. This is a book that is easy to flip open to any page and find something interesting. There seems to be a bias toward the early history of the agency. I would have liked to see more modern content (within 20 years).
 Worth reading, worth sharing April 26, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
As a retired CHP sergeant who dates back almost 40 years into CHP history, I found Rick Mattos' "California Highway Patrol" to be an excellent photographic collection of nostalgic--often moving--reminders of this department's proud past. From its early days as a county-by-county operation, familiar and unknown faces gaze back at the reader with exuberant confidence, their hats cocked and smiling into the camera with thoughts one can only guess from the distant past.
One can't help but be transfixed by the changes from twentieth to 21st century, from the early Indian motorcycles (with a reverse gear) and archaic communications, to the tommy guns of World War II, to the high-tech operations of today's vastly changed highway patrol. Despite the patrols occasional bad times, there has been one continuous thread that remained unbroken from faded black and white to blue and gold living color--the highway patrol officer out on the beat to whom the public has always turned and come to love.
A most worthy investment for the coffee table, for all to see.
(edited Aug 6, 2008)
Andy O'Hara is founder of "The Badge of Life" and author of THE SWAN: Tales of the Sacramento Valley
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