Our Police Guardians

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Excerpt from Our Police Guardians: History of the Police Department of the City of New York, and the Policing of Same for the Past One Hundred Years My views and deductions may not agree with yours, I hope they do not, for then there will be something to quarrel about, for it is well known that we of the Irish race love a good fight, and that when we have no one else to fight we fight each other. I have spoken pretty freely in these pages, but not always quite as freely as I would like to do. The law forbids, but the truth must and will be spoken of it in all cases. My life's training as a policeman has hardened me in many ways and consequently it I were to let loose Often the verdict would be against me, for the great majority of people allow their feelings to in¿uence them. I have tried to keep within the law by writing nothing but cold facts, backed up with proof, for all I have said or done, and in con elusion I hold out to all the right hand Of good fellowship, for he that would be free, himself shall strike the blow. A policeman's life is told in two words, dangerous duty, and if kind fortune favors him and he arrives at the time when he can retire he is lucky indeed, for only fourteen years is the average life Of a retired policeman. The statistics of the police department will and do verify this statement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.