The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-05
NOVEL TELEGRAPHc ARRANGEMENTS
THE POLICE LIFE FUND.
Startling Revelations About
Tenement Houses.
INTERESTING STATISTICS AND STATEMENTS,
&C., &c, &s.


York Is easy task. The Police Department Of such
city especially is OF great Importance and requires
minds OF extraordinary administrative capacity to work
dts intricate machinery successfully. Various expert
ents been tried In the effort discover the proper
police system and may be said that the city OF New
York has passed through more police experimental or
deals than almost any other city In the world The fruits
of these experiments to-day In the establishment
of Metropolitan Police system which, II abso utey
perfect may be regarded equal not SUPERIOR to that
OF any other police organization Of which have
record. But, approaching perfection near as our
police system does be denied that every day
Rnords evidences where improvements might be intro
duced Exigencies with the tide of humanity It
GIBBS and flows within and without the limits Of the
Metropolitan Police, that should command the
attention OF the executive officers Of the department
TO check the growing disposition among young men to
bomm assaults and other crimes Of violence against the
person should also command attention. This Is
bad element in New York There numbers Of young
hen who would never perhaps, commit a theft who
would hesitate commit assault upon the per
con, with without provocaton, Some parts Of the
bity particularly infected with what may be formed
she rowdy dstemper. In the eastern section-com-
prisng the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty first
wards-the plug ugly epidemic has ragged with extreme
violence. The Police Commissioners have had much
trouble on this account with class Of people that
part Of the city, but by justifyng policemen in
HE execution of summary proceedings against par
Iies guilty Of rioting and rowdyism the turbulent
spirits have been disposed to be little more
poacefuL The Fifth and Sixth wards were not
pong ago considered the worst in the city for the
humber of their rowdes and low criminals and the
ousiyeness Of their haunts and dens Of crime Some OF
She inhabitants of these wards were in humble crcum
stances Of the others Of the mo debased
character But owing TO the efficiency and adminis-
Iave capacity OF the officers Of the police having charge
OF those precinctsCaptans Joufdan and Petty-those
wards have attery been comparatively quiet and orderly
The population may bad ever but the police autho
es are recognized and there is little trouble disor
der. Certain soctons OF the Eighth and Fourteenth
vvards not far from Broadway considered bad To-
,,i,ies and the police have had considerable difficulty
IN regulating them The adoption Of the European rule
recurring squads OF gathered together In those
troublesome places to "movc ON has been found
promosivs Of public quiet At rst there was some DIM
guilty in enforcing Tho order frequently happening
ehat citizens claiming 10 be respectable forgetting that
ehe regulation was adopted for thor own protection
ptood out for what they claimed a. their rights which
keneray resulted in their being taken to the station
house whore they had ample time TO reflect upon what
constituted their rights The prompt enforcement OF the
order has been the means OF dispensing knots Of
ore ready TO pick quarrel get up row with tho
rst person they mec which has sometimes resulted In
death and murder.
No better evidence Of the effectiveness OF our police
can be adduced than the that while the crime Of
arrotnR has been revived with In London has
almost entirely disappeared here This result Is partly
owing 10 tho summary punishment OF the offenders by
ehe courts and the immunity allowed TO policemen In
cluding detectves-who appear in citizens dress-when
shey encounter one Of these cowardy villains who goes
back, on the officer Garroters however, occasionally
mako their appearance boldly in thoroughfares after
pghtfal but they rarely dare disturb any one who
not under the influence OF liquor
There were no public disorders OF any magnitude in
ehis city from the time Of the Aston place riots up 10 the
period Of the July or draft riots in 1853 Tho latter,
however regarded attempts at political re-
vou.ion than riots the entire military power Of
Che government called upon to suppress them But
during all these fearful scenes No class 0
men, civil or military, exhibited more GOODNESS
or courage in supprcssing the disorder thar
our Metropolitan Police since then tho idea Of
Che Police Military Brigade has been adopted; and cacl
policeman s now regularly drilled in the military tactic
md In the scientific Of his baton which be OK
phaneed for a musket when occasion requires
Tho war has brought out many bad elements amonl
our people. But the disposition, as we have stated q
moro toward violence TO person than TO crime To sub
aue this element the police should be clothed with sun
nsent power 10 accomplish that end; and then we shall
mover hear more, as do but very seldom Of at
ssmpss 10 override their authority.
Suggestions In regard TO important improvements !
che sanitary department Of the city, together with som
other pertinent hints concerning the administration
bolice Justice in this Metropolitan district will be foun
In the subjoincd article without further preface "
SIl proceed with description Of the Metropolitan p
lice, commencing with brief account Of the
&uRRrroRY or THE METROPOLITAN POLICE Drt
TSrCT.
The Metropolitan Police district Of the State Of Ne
EYork is composed Of the counties Of New York, King
Messcbester and Richmond and tho towns Of Newtowr
lFlushlng and Jamaica, In the county Of Queens
now GOVERNED.
The police government and discipline In said district al