In 1950, the U.S. Census recorded the population of Minneapolis at 521,000 residents. At that time the Minneapolis Police Department was comprised of nearly 600 sworn officers.
On the right in this 1950s photograph is Lieutenant Russell Krueger who went by the nickname of “The Sly Fox”. He is inspecting loaded dice which had been seized in a raid of an illegal gambling house. Lieutenant Krueger would go on to be one of the greatest homicide investigators in the Minneapolis Police Department along with his partner, Bob O’Rourke.
Photograph from the “Minneapolis Police 150th Anniversary” book published by Acclaim Press (currently out of print).