We Are to Protect and Serve

The beaconing force mentioned in the other blogs just did not appear over night it was through time and dedication and the individual who began what we now know as the F.B.I., a man named John Edgar Hoover the director of the Bureau. Hoover was already major player with the anti-communist era America was in to include the Red Scare with A. Mitchell Palmer. Working under Palmer, “J. Edgar Hoover and other leading anticommunists may well have sincerely believed in 1919 that government had to guard against the danger", but Hoover was only setting himself up for a greater project in the war against crime in the 1930's. "It would be fought not by soldiers but by another branch of he federal government, an obscure arm of the Justice Department" (Borrough 7). This era was looked upon as the wild wild west of gangsters over run by corruption and bootleggers! Only about eight years prior to Pearl Harbor, the American homeland defense know at this time as Justice Department was in over their heads with criminal persons; Machine Gun Kelley, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, and the Barker-Karpis Gang just for the prominent notorious criminal factions. The Only thing standing between justice and corruption were the titles and the presence of who and what the Justice of Department of Investigation was and what they wanted to achieve. It remained the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigations until 1935 they changed named to Federal Bureau of Investigations. At that point leaps and bounds for the group grew due to the FBI training facility and now able to be armed and have protective equipment against the gang retaliations. To help the bureau facilitate their program when “Between 1932 and 1935, when J. Edgar Hoover and the federal Division of Investigation carried out a nationwide campaign against bandit crime, gun moils were arrested, interrogated, and often publicly tried as accomplices to federal crimes". His men lived with a fear of Hoover he ran his offices by a strict code of rules, there was no lackadaisical acts to happen within the bureau. The men had a strict dress code and were liable for random dress code inspections, also the men all fell into a Hoover appearance between age twenty-five and thirty-five dressed to impress with law degrees and carried themselves well. 

  One of the several accomplishments that Hoover did that built his name and the agency was to include to bringing down of the gangsters threat directly through him or indirectly through police. Hoover was accredited for his undertakings then once the named was changed in 1935 it gave Hoover access to what he would need to complete the "Public Enemy Era". The closure of this era was during 1935-1936. Some of the dominant forces in capturing or killing the American gangsters were: Special Agent Melvin Purvis who primarily over John Dillinger case and few others, Gus T. Buster Jones an ex-Ranger and cowboy figure pursuing Baby Face Nelson, and lastly Connelley chasing the Karpis gang for there well plotted kidnappings.

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Drawing of Hoover with his eyes down the sights of the most popular gun Thompson.



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