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[close] On a Sunday in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst took to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church and delivered a fire-breathing denunciation of life in America's greatest city. New York had gone to the dogs.
A crusade that went at the political heart of the nation's greatest and most politically important metropolis and exposed the dark underside of New York's vice economy and the police force's complicity in it.