The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-16
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 ssFoiks have the idea that were rearing bunch Of toughs and gun men down here on the East Side. We got to show them steF1y're VT e11g...'
 This is the reason why Captain J. F. Sweeney, of the 18th Police Pre- cinct. New York ccity, has organized the ttKl Cops in the most congested tenement district in the world. Cap tain Sweeney knows the East Side and the East Side youngsters. For twenty nine years he has watched the mimic warfare between the boys who pavement or play ball in seething streets and the policemen who try to stop all this.
 Captain Sweeney thinks it high time these old enemies understand each other, He wants boys to find out policemen weren't created to chase small youngsters, his own pa, troJmen to learn that small boys weren't born to poster the police, and people in general know what a fine lot Of citizens in the making are grow ing up in the crowded tenement homes. So he has recruited the Jun for Police force and Commissioner Arthur Woods. has given sanction to this latest effort in line with his own plans for preventing as well as pun fishing crime. ssCheesit the Cop" may yet slip from the voeabulary of the
 
 Just as a police district is divided into precincts, so the 18th Precinct stretching from Rivington street to Fourteenth street, from Avenue B to Fourth avenue, has been divided into twelve zones under supervision of the Junior. Police. Each zone is in charge of captain appointed by Captain l"Conrnissioner,') Sweeney The ca ptafns choose their own officers a lieutenant and two sergeants, and a, squad of about tWenty-one patr olmen lis selected from applicants. There are now about three hundredS on the force and as these prove their eff1- ciency the number will gradually be | increased from the two hundred or more names on the waiting list. We started to organize last August" " said Captain Sweeney, staQd now we have l ton every afternoon trying to get on 1 the force.
 Junior Police Pledge f Each member is required to pass a sphysicaI examination and to learn 1.-the pledge of the Junior Police be- Ifore his application for membership 1 is considered. These tests passed, he may become the proud owner of a l nickel badge with his number in the force upon it.
 I There are four varieties of badges for the four grades of officers. each lmodeled after the insignia of the city police Captain Sweeney has donated 1 the badges himself and fears he may go "broke'' if the force swells it's membership much further.
 The pledge, which must be kept in order to retain the badge, is: promise on my honor to do my duty Ito God, to my country, and to obey the law; to obey the motto and rules land regulations of the Junior Police Force of the City of New York; te keep and never misuse my Junior I Police badge, and to surrender ii 1upon demand to the chief of the Jun; for Po1ice.'' And the motto which makes this pledge more than a. for naula of the words requires that every I officer s'be honest, be trustworthy. bt Eloyal, be helpful, be polite, be obe' dient and be brave.
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