Cathy Buda is the daughter of the late Lieutenant Clinton A. Benson who retired from the Minneapolis Police Department in 1979.
Lieutenant Benson had saved MPD manuals, books, and training materials from the early 1960s. He was careful to specify that these should not be thrown away but should instead be donated somewhere.
We are grateful to Cathy for thinking of the Minneapolis Police Museum and for her generous donation of these materials which are so important to understanding the evolution of the department and the city.