Detective Callie Fairley - 1929 - 1952 - El Paso, Texas
Detective Callie Fairley - 1929 - 1952 - El Paso, Tejas
Detective Callie Fairley - 1929 - 1952 - El Paso, Texas
Callie Fairley was hired by the city police department as a detective on the vice squad, an assignment she held for over a quarter of a century. During her twenty-five-year career, she arrested more than 20,000 women. She arrested more than nine-six percent of El Paso’s female vice law violators from 1929 until her retirement in 1952. She was one of two policewomen in El Paso and was is in charge of handling all woman prisoners confined in the City Jail and carry out investigations of woman involved in prostitution and other similar offenses.
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