Steven a Coppinger

Arkansas' First State Police Recruit Training School Steven a Coppinger

It was generally presumed that all one needed to be effective at policing was common sense. Arkansas State Police Superintendent Arthur Gray Albright recognized the fallacy of this assumption. When Governor Carl E. Bailey signed Act 166 of 1937 into law which increased the number of men Albright could employ as state policemen and expanded the duties the Department was expected to carry out, Albright set out to properly train his officers. In this book, Coppinger sheds light on the efforts that Albright, Assistant Superintendent Robert T. LaFollette, Lieutenant Lindsey Hatchett, Lieutenant James Earl Scroggin, Sergeant Elbert E. "Bert" Frazier and other members of the cadre expended to organize and host Arkansas's first state police recruit training school.