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Princeton--West, Peters, Van Dyke, Roberts and McAdoo...
...John D. Long '57, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, and Hon. William McAdoo, ex-congressman and police commissioner of New York City, spoke in the Living Room of the Union last evening, before a very large audience, on the subjects of "The Guarding of the State," and "The Guarding of the City," respectively. Professor F. G. Peapody '69, a member of the Social Service Committee, presided...
...McAdoo, in speaking of "The Guarding of the City," said that in New York City, which contains four and onehalf millions of people, representing every race, tongue, and clime, the greatest problem of government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant...
...McAdoo suggested that the best way to make an ideal police force in New York City would be to make it independent of politics, to separate the detective and the patroling branches of the service, to reduce the graft, blackmail, and mismanagement of officials, to make promotion in the ranks depend upon personal merit only, and to use some method whereby each policeman would keep to his beat. Finally, he said, that unless the good predominates and the morartone of the majority is good, laws are in vain...
...McAdoo's term of public service began in the New Jersey Assembly. From 1883 to 1891, he represented the seventh district of New Jersey in Congress, and from 1893 to 1897 held the position of assistant secretary of the Navy. The most prominent years of his political career began in 1904, when he was appointed Police Commissioner of New York City under Mayor McClellan. In this office, he worked against severe odds to bring order throughout the metropolis...