Detective Callie Fairley - 1929 - 1952 - El Paso, Texas

Callie Fairley was hired by the city police department as a detective on the vice squad, an assignment she held for over a quarter of a century. During her twenty-five-year career, she arrested more than 20,000 women. She arrested more than nine-six percent of El Paso’s female vice law violators from 1929 until her retirement in 1952. She was one of two policewomen in El Paso and was is in charge of handling all woman prisoners confined in the City Jail and carry out investigations of woman involved in prostitution and other similar offenses.

Area: Central / Downtown

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02 April 2024 by Eva K Ross

See . 60-61 in book Grace and Gumption:the Women of El Paso edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel for more details on Callie.

15 May 2022 by Lydia Cornell (Korniloff)

I remember this day, when we all took the photo with our great grandmother. Callie also bailed a lot of prostitutes out of jail, took them home, then fed and rehabilitated them. My mother told me that Callie took care of one woman's children for a whole year, until the woman was out of prison. (To Eva Ross: i'll try to find all the photos I have)

09 October 2021 by Janette Armstrong

my grandfather Earl C Armstrong was a detective in the 1930s in El Paso Texas

16 January 2021 by Eva Ross

Wish Lydia and Linda would add photos of their great grandma to digital wall.

01 September 2020 by Linda Ward

She was also my great grandmother and Lydia is my cousin. We remember her well. Our grandmother told us that of the many prostitutes she arrested she ended up buying many of them bus fare home. She was only 4’11” but was a remarkable woman in every way.

26 March 2020 by Eva

March is Women's History Month.

24 September 2019 by Lydia Cornell

Callie was my great grandmother! An amazing woman. ~ Lydia Cornell (Korniloff)