Smedley's Plan to Transform Philadelphia

Harding's isolationist approach to a foreign policy meant that Smedley suddenly found himself on the bench. The city of Philadelphia was in a state of total walllessness overrun by organized crime, illegal liquor and banity. Smedley brought the same counterinsurgency philosophy to Philly that he deployed in places like Haiti. His cops raided and shuttered 80 percent of the city's booze joints in just 48 hours.