Putnam key to former police chief’s success

  • Clarence Dickson, the first Black Miami Police Department chief, reflects on his career, which began before the department was desegregated.
    Clarence Dickson, the first Black Miami Police Department chief, reflects on his career, which began before the department was desegregated.
  • Clarence Dickson, the first Black Miami Police Department chief, gathers with family, friends and more recent members of the department.
    Clarence Dickson, the first Black Miami Police Department chief, gathers with family, friends and more recent members of the department.
  • Dickson at a football game in the 1980s.
    Dickson at a football game in the 1980s.
Miami’s first Black police chief attributed accomplishments during his long law enforcement career to his upbringing in Palatka. Clarence Dickson, 86, served in the Miami Police Department from 1960…

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