Pinkerton (detective agency)
Pinkerton, founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is a private security guard and detective agency created in the United States by Scottish-American spy Allan Pinkerton in 1850. It is a part of Securitas AB.[1]
Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have stopped a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War.[2] Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work.
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency hired women and minorities from its founding.[3] Pinkerton was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power.[4]
Pinkerton (detective Agency) Media
First logo for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Color version.
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884
Pinkerton men leaving a barge after their surrender during the Homestead Strike
Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead
References
- ↑ Pinkerton Government Services, Inc.: Private Company Information – Businessweek. investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- ↑ Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2006)Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-375-42237-4.p. 43
- ↑ Seiple, Samantha. Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye (2015). New York: Scholastic Press. ISBN 978-0-545-70901-9. OCLC 922643750.
- ↑ TM Becker. The place of private police in society: An area of research for the Social Sciences. Social Problems 21 (3) (1974). p. 438–453. doi:10.2307/799910.
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