Theodore Roosevelt "brought a reforming zeal to the New York City Police"
Grand Old Partisan spotlights the crime-fighting crusade of Theodore Roosevelt. May 6th 1895, a Republican mayor of New York named him president of city’s board of police commissioners. This "iron-willed leader of unimpeachable honesty" tightened disciplinary rules for officers and introduced an array of improvements, such as:
higher recruitment and retention standards, standard-issue pistols, a bicycle squad for traffic enforcement, telephones at stations
Roosevelt served two years. Many nights he "spent walking through the tenement-house districts and visiting police stations to see what was being done. We did everything possible to alleviate the suffering."
It was observed that criminals respected him "as the one of them all who was stronger than pull. For the first time a moral purpose came into the street. In the light of it everything was transformed."
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