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October, 2012 Real Time Analytics Theodore Roosevelt and His
Times Haroun al Roosevelt by Howland, Harold  In 1895, at the
age of thirty-six, Roosevelt was asked by Mayor Strong of New
York City, who had just been elected on an anti-Tammany ticket,
to become a member of his Administration. Mayor Strong wanted
him for Street Cleaning Commissioner. Roosevelt definitely
refused that office, on the ground that he had no special
fitness for it, but accepted readily the Mayor's subsequent
proposal that he should become President of the Police
Commission, knowing that there was a job that he could do.
There was plenty of work to be done in the Police Department.
The conditions under which it must be done were dishearteningly
unfavorable. In the first place, the whole scheme of things was
wrong. The Police Department was governed by