Arkansas' First State Police Recruit Training School - Paperback

by Steven a. Coppinger (Author)

It was generally presumed that all one needed to be effective at policing was common sense. Arkansas State Police Superintendent Arthur Gray Albright recognized the fallacy of this assumption. When Governor Carl E. Bailey signed Act 166 of 1937 into law which increased the number of men Albright could employ as state policemen and expanded the duties the Department was expected to carry out, Albright set out to properly train his officers. In this book, Coppinger sheds light on the efforts that Albright, Assistant Superintendent Robert T. LaFollette, Lieutenant Lindsey Hatchett, Lieutenant James Earl Scroggin, Sergeant Elbert E. "Bert" Frazier and other members of the cadre expended to organize and host Arkansas's first state police recruit training school.

Author Biography

Steven A. Coppinger, a Californian by birth but a life-long resident of Arkansas, is a 23-year-veteran of the Arkansas State Police. Holding the rank of Captain, he is currently assigned to the Special Projects Office at Headquarters in Little Rock. Coppinger earned his Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2009, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1988. He is also a 2013 graduate of the Fusion Center Leaders Program (FCLP-13-01) from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California; and a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University's Center for Public Safety School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) Class #215. Coppinger has also served as an adjunct professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, the Northwest Arkansas and Little Rock campuses of the University of Phoenix, Arkansas State University at Beebe, and Southern New Hampshire University. He has also guest lectured at the Criminal Justice Institute in Little Rock, the Black River Technical College Law Enforcement Training Academy in Pocahontas, and at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy (ALETA) in Northwest Arkansas. Coppinger and his wife, Peppi, and their two sons, Brent and Max, reside in Fayetteville, Arkansas.