Inspector
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John J. (Jack) Manion (1877–March 1959),
San Francisco Police Department, was a veteran officer assigned by
Chief Dan O'Brien in 1921 to head up the notorious 16-member Chinatown Squad which had been established in 1875.
In the 1920s,
San Francisco's Chinatown
The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, () is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable ...
covered eight city blocks between Bush and Broadway, and three blocks up
Nob Hill
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from
Kearny Street
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to
Powell Street
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The intersection of Powell Street with Market Street is the sta ...
. Grant and Stockton streets were the main north-south thoroughfares. As early as the 1850s,
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
immigrants began organizing into protective associations based on family, business, or their home districts. Shunned and fiercely discriminated against on race as well as economics by the wider community, the people in Chinatown, a segregated population, banded together in associations, companies or the label applied by the press, ''
tongs
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The first pair of tongs belongs to the Egyptians. Tongs likely started off as ...
.''
Five of the district associations formed the
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) ( in the Western United States, Midwest, and Western Canada; 中華公所 (中华公所) ''zhōnghuá gōngsuǒ'' ( Jyutping: zung1wa4 gung1so2) in the East) is a historical Chinese associa ...
in the late 1850s, known as the Five companies by non-Chinese in California. In 1862, a sixth association was added and the grouping became known to outsiders as the
Chinese Six Companies.
Manion was set to the task of controlling the ''tongs'' that controlled illicit gambling, lotteries, narcotics, prostitution and other criminal enterprises with hired gunmen and the so-called "hatchetmen."
References
*Jerry Flamm, ''Good Life in Hard Times''. Chronicle Books
External links
Manion at San Francisco Virtual Museum
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American police detectives
Chinese-American history
1877 births
1959 deaths
San Francisco Police Department officers
People from Chinatown, San Francisco