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Joseph Aloysius Warren was New York City Police Commissioner from April 12, 1927 – December 18, 1928. Warren was born April 19, 1882 in Jersey City, NJ, the eldest son of Joseph Warren, a successful Jersey City real estate businessman born in Drogheda, Co. Meath, Ireland, and his wife Ellen (nee Grady) Warren. <ref>“Joseph Warren”, New York Times, February 28, 1895.</ref> A life-long friend and former law partner of Mayor Jimmy Walker, Warren became the second of four police commissioners appointed by Walker during a turbulent period in New York City history marred by the proliferation of prohibition-linked organized crime. Initially hailed by Mayor Walker as the ideal man for the job <ref>“Warren Dies, Former N.Y. Police Head Succumbs in Greenwich Hospital, Broken by Cares of Office He Left Under Fire”, The Hartford Courant, August 14, 1929.</ref>, Warren’s tenure was cut short after only 20 months, following a number of unsolved NYPD murder investigations, most notably including the highly publicized Arnold Rothstein murder investigation of November 1928.<ref>Messing, Philip, “When cops were robbers: The early days of the NYPD”. New York Post, April 12, 2015.</ref> In accepting Warren’s resignation in December 1928 the mayor praised Warren as an honest public servant. Warren succumbed to mental illness only nine months later on August 13, 1929, in a Greenwich, CT sanitarium, an apparent victim to the rigors of his former office. <ref |
Joseph Aloysius Warren was New York City Police Commissioner from April 12, 1927 – December 18, 1928. Warren was born April 19, 1882 in Jersey City, NJ, the eldest son of Joseph Warren, a successful Jersey City real estate businessman born in Drogheda, Co. Meath, Ireland, and his wife Ellen (nee Grady) Warren. <ref>“Joseph Warren”, New York Times, February 28, 1895.</ref> A life-long friend and former law partner of Mayor Jimmy Walker, Warren became the second of four police commissioners appointed by Walker during a turbulent period in New York City history marred by the proliferation of prohibition-linked organized crime. Initially hailed by Mayor Walker as the ideal man for the job <ref>“Warren Dies, Former N.Y. Police Head Succumbs in Greenwich Hospital, Broken by Cares of Office He Left Under Fire”, The Hartford Courant, August 14, 1929.</ref>, Warren’s tenure was cut short after only 20 months, following a number of unsolved NYPD murder investigations, most notably including the highly publicized Arnold Rothstein murder investigation of November 1928.<ref>Messing, Philip, “When cops were robbers: The early days of the NYPD”. New York Post, April 12, 2015.</ref> In accepting Warren’s resignation in December 1928 the mayor praised Warren as an honest public servant. Warren succumbed to mental illness only nine months later on August 13, 1929, in a Greenwich, CT sanitarium, an apparent victim to the rigors of his former office. <ref>“Warren Dies, Former N.Y. Police Head Succumbs in Greenwich Hospital, Broken by Cares of Office He Left Under Fire”, The Hartford Courant, August 14, 1929.</ref> |
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Joseph Aloysius Warren was New York City Police Commissioner from April 12, 1927 – December 18, 1928. Warren was born April 19, 1882 in Jersey City, NJ, the eldest son of Joseph Warren, a successful Jersey City real estate businessman born in Drogheda, Co. Meath, Ireland, and his wife Ellen (nee Grady) Warren. [1] A life-long friend and former law partner of Mayor Jimmy Walker, Warren became the second of four police commissioners appointed by Walker during a turbulent period in New York City history marred by the proliferation of prohibition-linked organized crime. Initially hailed by Mayor Walker as the ideal man for the job [2], Warren’s tenure was cut short after only 20 months, following a number of unsolved NYPD murder investigations, most notably including the highly publicized Arnold Rothstein murder investigation of November 1928.[3] In accepting Warren’s resignation in December 1928 the mayor praised Warren as an honest public servant. Warren succumbed to mental illness only nine months later on August 13, 1929, in a Greenwich, CT sanitarium, an apparent victim to the rigors of his former office. [4]
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- ^ “Joseph Warren”, New York Times, February 28, 1895.
- ^ “Warren Dies, Former N.Y. Police Head Succumbs in Greenwich Hospital, Broken by Cares of Office He Left Under Fire”, The Hartford Courant, August 14, 1929.
- ^ Messing, Philip, “When cops were robbers: The early days of the NYPD”. New York Post, April 12, 2015.
- ^ “Warren Dies, Former N.Y. Police Head Succumbs in Greenwich Hospital, Broken by Cares of Office He Left Under Fire”, The Hartford Courant, August 14, 1929.