attempted to deliver a warrant for the mayor's arrest, only to be tossed out by a group of Municipals. The opera buffa climax came in mid-June when Metropolitan police captain. Rival cops tussled over possession of station houses. Arrested by one force, they were rescued by the other. The division between the forces was ethnically determined, with immigrants largely staying with the Municipals, and those of Anglo-Dutch heritage going to the Metropolitans. The Municipals were controlled directly by Wood and including 800 policemen and 15 captains who stayed. The Metropolitans included 300 policemen and 7 captains who left the Municipal police but was primarily made up of raw recruits with little or no training. Unwilling to be abolished, Mayor Fernando Wood and the Municipals resisted for several months, during which time the city effectively had two police forces, the State-controlled Metropolitans, and the Municipals. The Metropolitan Police Bill consolidated the police in New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester County (which then included The Bronx), under a Governor of New York-appointed board of commissioners. In 1857, Republican Party reformers in the New York State capital of Albany created a new Metropolitan police force and abolished the Municipal police, as part of their effort to rein in the Democratic Party-controlled New York City government. A navy blue uniform was introduced after long debate in 1853. The NYPD was closely modeled after the Metropolitan Police Service in London, England which used a military-like organizational structure, with rank and order. Under Mayor William Havemeyer, the city finally repealed their watch system and adopted the Municipal Police Act as an ordinance on May 23, 1845, creating the New York Police Department in fact rather than merely in legislative theory.įor the purposes of policing, the city was divided into three districts, with courts, magistrates, and clerks, and station houses. However, because of a lengthy dispute between the Common Council and the Mayor of New York City regarding who would appoint the officers, the law was not put into effect until the following year. John Watts de Peyster was an early advocate of implementing military style discipline and organization to the force.
At the request of the New York City Common Council, Peter Cooper drew up a proposal to create a police force of 1,200 officers. On May 7, 1844, the New York State passed the Municipal Police Act, a law which authorized creation of a police force and abolished the night watch system. Prior to the establishment of the NYPD, New York City's population of about 320,000 was served by a force consisting of 1 night watch, 100 city marshals, 31 constables, and 51 municipal police officers. Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1895 who tried to clean up corruption within the police department
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