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The city expanded police protection, even temporarily having volunteer police officers to assist the three paid officers.
Fire protection was expanded in 1882, with the city's first 13 paid firefighters.
Former mayor Henry Vollmer accomplished several public works achievements, including large street paving and new sub-divisions being plotted.
A large city budget surplus brought the creation of the Davenport City Hall.
After 1900, each mayor brought new agendas for city improvement.
Waldo Becker encouraged new railroads for the city.
He also promised a more business-like government, in terms of financial responsibility and to depoliticize the police department.
In the mid 1920s the city established the first zoning ordinances, electrical traffic signals and street lighting.
They city also expanded with the incorporation of the city of Rockingham and the establishment of the Davenport Municipal Airport.

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