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Article: Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police, 1895-1897.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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This volume examines Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as police commissioner of New York City. He was sworn in on 6 May 1895, and his colleagues - Avery Andrews, Andrew Parker, and Frederick D. Grant (son of the Civil War general) - elected TR president of the police board. Roosevelt and the board cleaned house; beginning with the incumbent chief of police, they rooted out corruption. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the commissioners reorganized the detective branch, improved the department's communications system, implemented firearms training, established the position of "matron," adopted the Bertillion System of classifying criminals (a forerunner of fingerprinting), and ...