found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 18, 2017(Arnold Sagalyn, a onetime assistant to crime-fighter Eliot Ness, who later used his positions in federal law enforcement to advocate for nonlethal police practices and a centralized call system, which led to the creation of the 911 emergency number, died Sept. 11 [2017] at his home in Washington; he was 99; after stints in journalism, law enforcement and business, Mr. Sagalyn was named director of the Treasury Department's Office of Law Enforcement Coordination in 1961; served as the U.S. representative to Interpol, the international policing agency, and later had a staff position with the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission; throughout the 1960s, Mr. Sagalyn became known for speaking and writing nationally in support of nonlethal force in police procedures; Arnold Sagalyn was born March 2, 1918, in Springfield, Mass.; graduated in 1939 from Oberlin College in Ohio, then went to work in Cleveland for Ness, who was the city's director of public safety at the time; Mr. Sagalyn first came to Washington in 1942 to organize a national law enforcement effort to curtail prostitution; later, he served as an Army officer, helping to reestablish civilian order in Germany after World War II; from 1947 to 1954, he held reporting and editing jobs with Life magazine, the New York Times and NBC News; spent three years in the lumber business in Oregon before returning to the Washington area in 1957 as a part-owner and editorial page editor of the Northern Virginia Sun, a daily newspaper based in Alexandria; left the paper in 1961 to take the law enforcement job at Treasury; in the 1970s, he was a staff member of a House of Representatives panel investigating the possible impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon; operated a consulting firm, Security Planning Corp., from 1970 until his retirement in 1990)
