Pennsylvania State Police Historical Museum

By 1900 got itself torn by unpleasant debate amongst chiefs and the workers they utilized. Savagery ended up basic in the new groups that jumped up around the coal fields, press plants, material industrial facilities and railroad yards. By the turn of the century it was apparent that the town constables, sheriffs and comparable nearby authorities, who had been satisfactory to keep the peace in more steady circumstances were not able adapt to the new populaces and the vicious work inconveniences of the circumstances. To give themselves assurance that the Commonwealth did not give, the coal and steel administrators influenced the State Legislature to approve the formation of what turned into the notorious Coal and Iron Police. For one dollar each, the state sold to the mine and steel process proprietors, commissions presenting police control upon whomever the proprietors chose.