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Detective

Philip Lambrecht

New York City Police Department — New York, NY
Veteran → Felonious
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End of Watch March 14, 1872
Age 26
Gender Male
Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Also Remembered Department 1,221

Incident

Philip Lambrecht was born in Manhattan in January 1846, one of thirteen children of Anthony and Maria Magdalena Lambrecht, immigrants from Bavaria and France. His father ran a stagecoach line.

In 1861, at the age of fifteen, he enlisted in the Union Army with Company C of the 9th New York Infantry, Hawkins' Zouaves, and fought at Roanoke Island. He went on to serve in two other New York regiments until the war ended.

By 1869 he was a New York City policeman, and he became a detective in the 19th Precinct. On the morning of 26 February 1872, he and two other officers in plain clothes were searching for a gang that had nearly killed a patrolman in a First Avenue saloon the night before. At 59th Street and Second Avenue they were attacked by a group of drunken laborers. Detective Lambrecht drew his revolver and fired once, and George Laverty struck him on the back of the head with a heavy slab of marble, fracturing his skull. He died at St. Luke's Hospital on 14 March 1872, aged 26. Laverty was convicted of second-degree murder that June.

He never married. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Queens. A post of the Grand Army of the Republic was named for him, and in 1912 his name was among the first placed on the department's honor roll at Police Headquarters.

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Department New York City Police Department
Type Police Department
Location New York, NY
Platform Identity nypd.newyork.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 14, 1872
Age 26
Gender Male
Assignment 19th Precinct (today the 17th Squad)

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Military Service

Philip Lambrecht served in the U.S. Army (1861–1865) before joining law enforcement.

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The Sacrifice · Felonious

Philip is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

33,917 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1872, 32 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 154th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

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Who

Philip was 26. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38.

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When

March holds 7.5% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Thursdays: 14%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause.

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His people

New York City Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Philip among them.

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Detective Philip Lambrecht

New York City Police Department · End of Watch March 14, 1872

Military Service

Philip Lambrecht served in the U.S. Army (1861–1865) before joining law enforcement.

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