Because he was the only Jewish officer on the general staff.
Mr. Sacks, he said, had heard that there were nearly 20 Jewish officers at the local station house alone.
The Shomrim Society has been a sanctuary for Jewish officers since it was founded in 1924 with an enrollment of 214.
In total, the group numbered between three and four hundred uniformed Jewish officers, distinguished by caps with green bands.
Many Jews fought at Waterloo, where thirty-five Jewish officers died.
German soldiers were treated by Jewish medical officers who sometimes saved the soldiers' lives.
At the end of his career he was the department's chief of detectives, the only Jewish officer to ever hold that position.
Many younger Jewish officers credited Seedman's visibility with encouraging their career choice.
Not only one but both his elder sons did so, and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned.
If there's nothing wrong with this, why not start transferring all the Jewish officers to Williamsburg?