The conditions of New York life are such as to make the police problem therein more difficult than in any other of the world's great capitals.

I am often asked if policemen are honest.

I believe that the great majority of them want to be honest and will be honest whenever they are given the chance.

The New York police force is a body thoroughly representative of the great city itself.

As I have said above, the predominant ethnic strains in it are, first, the men of Irish birth or parentage, and, following these, the native Americans, usually from the country districts, and the men of German birth or parentage.