William C. Warren (Los Angeles City Marshal)

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William C. Warren (?-1870) was the first regularly employed law-enforcement officer in the city of Los Angeles. As city marshal beginning in 1869, he served as head of the local police force of six officers in a city that had about 5,600 residents. The city granted Warren $50 to furnish his headquarters and $25 a month for rent. He also was dog catcher and tax collector, being paid 2Ѕ percent of all the tax money he collected. (Source: The Los Angeles Police Department website at [1].)

Warren was shot and killed in 1870 by one of his deputies, Joe Dye, as the two were engaged in a bitter argument over a reward. Dye won an acquittal but the disposition of the reward is unknown (R. D. Wade at [2].