Police Parade and Conference
One hundred years ago today … The New York Police Department–“New York’s Finest,” as they were already known–paraded on Broadway.
Daily News, 8 May 1921, p. 1. Newspapers.com.
It was a culmination of a heady week for the NYPD (the initials were not yet in popular use), as the event marked the end of a four-day law enforcement conference hosted by the department and Commissioner Richard Enright. Enright was in his element at the gathering, showing off to the visiting police chiefs the weaponry his department had “gathered in.”
Buffalo Enquirer, 7 May 1921, p. 2. Newspapers.com.
Note: Enright has appeared previously in our pages, such as our posts about police corruption and the all-women police precinct.
Among the attending luminaries was Father Francis P. Duffy (below, top left), the celebrated World War I priest-soldier, for whom the northern half of Times Square would be named in 1939.
Buffalo Enquirer, 7 May 1921, p. 2. Newspapers.com.
Duffy did not make the World’s cartoon illustration of conference-goers.
Evening World, 4 May 1921, p. 4. Newspapers.com.
– Jonathan Goldman, May 7, 2021
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