sentences:  By 1887, Tampa city leaders had expressed concern about the lack of a trained police force in the rapidly growing "wild frontier town".They also saw the potential to greatly increase the city's tax rolls by gaining control of the prosperous community that had suddenly sprouted just outside the city limits.So on June 2, 1887, Tampa annexed Ybor City over the protestations of Ybor himself, who felt that relinquishing civil authority would add nothing to his company town except new regulations and red tape.