"A change gonna come" : Jim Crow challenges during the depression and World War, 1929-43 -- "Almost the law" : black police and the ordeal of Jim Crow policing in postwar Houston, 1944-59 -- Circling the wagons : HPD retrenchment in a time of social change, 1960-73 -- "What a mess we have here" : chaos with the breakdown of leadership in the police department, 1973-78 -- The storm clouds of change : the death of José Campos Torres and the emergence of triracial politics in Houston, 1978-80 -- Calming the raging sea : Katherine J. Whitmire, Lee P. Brown, and the high tide of change for the police department, 1981-90.