A POLICE STATION stamps out the low-level graft that creeps into any large democratic city. While distance-based corruption is unaffected, the size-driven leak that troubles metropolitan administrations is eliminated.
Robert Peel's 1829 Metropolitan Police taught the modern world a deceptively simple lesson: a city polices itself best when it polices itself visibly. Where audit ledgers and judicial reach fail, a uniformed presence on every other street corner does the rest.