Flowers: the Cop Who Made a Difference
Cops had a hard time in the Seventies. Not only was the crime rate continuing to rise, but budget cuts were cutting back on staff and the public was losing confidence in the NYPD.
Along one stretch of Broadway on the Upper West Side, however, there was tremendous respect amongst residents and merchants for one particular officer, whom I only knew of by his surname: Flowers. "Welcome to Flowers Territory!" read a banner displayed on the street. The sign was meant to convey a message to drug dealers, hookers and assorted sleaze buckets in the area to stay away, as Flowers was doing his job quite well. Let's not forget that, at the time, the area off of Broadway was still pretty raunchy in spots.
Flowers was written about in the freebie newspapers, but never achieved fame. Never mind. He showed that one guy could still make a dent in a problem.
Along one stretch of Broadway on the Upper West Side, however, there was tremendous respect amongst residents and merchants for one particular officer, whom I only knew of by his surname: Flowers. "Welcome to Flowers Territory!" read a banner displayed on the street. The sign was meant to convey a message to drug dealers, hookers and assorted sleaze buckets in the area to stay away, as Flowers was doing his job quite well. Let's not forget that, at the time, the area off of Broadway was still pretty raunchy in spots.
Flowers was written about in the freebie newspapers, but never achieved fame. Never mind. He showed that one guy could still make a dent in a problem.
posted by Tony the Tour Guy | 9:00 PM
2 Comments:
Say, I'll have to email this to one of our members who is in Police Academy. He left a white collar career in trnsportation planning for the NYPD. D.
Great. Maybe his instructors will have heard of Flowers.
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