Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nevada Studies in History and Political Science No. 28. The first study of the establishment and development of San Francisco's courts, police, and jails from the American conquest in 1846 through 1852, by a retired San Francisco police officer. Mullen concludes that "the legends of raging violent crime in early San Francisco are overblown. " Illustrated with reproductions of early engravings and photographs. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. xix, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1466.