New York Times - July 23, 1909

WANTS WOMEN ON POLICE
That Minneapolis needs 100 women is the opinion of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, who to-day addressed the students in the chapel of the University of Minnesota.

She gave it as her opinion that should demands of the suffragists be granted it would not be too much to expect that women should do their fair share in the Police and Fire Departments,

"One hundred women specialists put on the police force of any city would make for improved civic conditions," said Dr. Shaw. "The criminal needs 'mothering.' If women were on the police force their watchfulness, care, and attention to people who need their wholesome influence, backed up by authority, would prove a most useful and uplifting measure."