A panther is on city police badges. Fort Worth’s baseball teams made the Panthers and Cats nickname nationally famous. The city’s white and black high schools, later Central, Paschal and now ...

B. Paddock even bought two panther cubs, placed them in a circus wagon and paraded them through downtown Dallas to show off the mighty mascots. In 1912, the Fort Worth Police Department added a ...

A panther even rests on top of the Fort Worth police badge since 1912. “The badge is unique where you’re not going to find anything like it anywhere,” Fort Worth Police Department's Marty ...