New-York tribune., 1900-10-04
RISING AGAINST POLICE.
CITY CLUB OFFERS TO COOPERATE
WITH BISHOP POTTER IN A CRUSADE.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ARRAIGNING THE
DEPARTMENT. WHICH IS DECLARED
IL LEAGUE WITH CRIME.


IN LEAGUE WITH CRIME.
One Of the severest 'arraignments OF the pres
ent police administration in this city made
was that presented IN a report of the council
of the City Club and adopted last evening at
we'll attended meeting in the clubhouse, at No
10 West Thirty -fourth-st. The council submit
ted with the report the following resolutions,
which were adopted unanimously by the City
Club members present:
Resolved; That the City Club holding that no
citizen of NewYork is safe while the humbest OF
citizens can he abused by the police or refused
their protection against disturbers of the peace
end recognizing that only by the application of
ton OF the Police Department be corrected and the
forces OF evil overcome directs its counsel TO offer
the settlement workers on the East and West sides
OF police violence and to other interested citizens
and organizations. the fullest cooperation of the
ha ejuo IA common endeavor to remedy the fragrant
Resolved. That the counsel be instructed to con-
i tiIue TO urge upon the Charter Revision Commits
S;op the adoption of provision already advocated
oy TINS c!uo AND many other organizations and citi
sponsible head
WHEELER H. PECKHAM PRESIDES
Wheeler H. Peckham presided at the meeting
and the report of the council upon the evils Of
police administration read by r. r. Bowker
who later moved the adoption of the resolutions
The report was as follows:
To the City Club Of New York
Gentlemen New-York has had reason in the
past to honor its police force as one of the finest
IN IN the world as 1t honors to-day its Fire Depart
ent not yet demoralized by political corruption.
me great body Of the police are still the honored
guar oans OF public order. the safeguard Of citizens
~ 1S oaf ana ther protectors by night and of this
the alert watchfulness of those on duty In our
of the life savers in the daily crush at the Brook
syn Srddge t, and such heroic conduct that
the sight of both his eyes. are noble examples
denOraliZed bV adj infs-
tratlon of the Department which by the device
Of transfers gives to corrupt favorites pre-
reSponslbllity licenses crime, and sends into OBJ
content con with their wages as public servants
In the race riots on the West Side following upon
the the murder M r. Of white policeman by negro Grim
yengetul participation Of some Of the police nearly
brought again upon New-York the horror and
ef and Bestsen as
Stopped Rd pro4 of ar s1 ers
from them, and negroes captured by the mob we're
house which should have given them Pre- protecton
b The aRa{hX or or SYN Of the police encouraged
sgos drys a later IT .ar"r and our fellow
eS z abng hPnses kn6W Ra
personally to police officials are ofciaIiy unknown
Of By police eous vso are aFests
the unfortunate slaves Of the brothel keepers are
paraded and locked UP, and walters are fined while
me, Sne known proprietors' warned or fortified by
NO LONGER TRUST THE POLICE.
On the East Side the daughters of honest citi-
aens are luEed d. into dsns Of II fame and their
the open eyes of the police. The University Set
tement workers have ceased to make complaints
be used as whips to extort more hush money
from those complained OF. The clergy seeking to
threatened with assault by the police. At the
officials and large numbers of men from the
Eldridge-st and Mulberry-st police stations the
steamboat was crowded far beyond legal limits and
against the protest OF the captain to the n
dangerment OF thousands of lives; one hundred and
thirty gambling games We're counted in operation
practically under protection Of the police; prize
the police although the repeal of the Horton law
had become operative the cost of the orgy being
Of IS tickets for distribution from saloon Keepers
cGoT1poTatons political henchmen and blsckmaiIed
Large s ra6 fg6d for t police bc and 4be nda
offences and even upon unoffending citizens af-
Of the character of the administration Of the De-
If this perversion Of a great department which
the citizens maintain at annual cost Of millions,
laws and maintaining order, has made it protec-
ton to criminals, shield to vice and danger to
be safe in New-York CITY The evils Complained
tensity. unless they are met and overcome They
VIII not cure Themselves. The police officials will
not cure them. The remedy is with the people,
and the City Club must do its part
SAYS EXPERTS IN CORRUPTION RULE.
James B. Reynolds, previous to the adoption
of the resolutions, talked about the conditions
IN the district east of the Bowery, where the
University Settlement does its hardest work
He declared that the administration of the city
is in the hands of persons who are experts in
municipal corruption. AS the present
Tammany administration into power he
said vice began to increase and became more
openly faunted in the district.
Mr.. Reynolds told Of an attempt he had made
AI;1.
district owned by one of the Tammany district
leaders. He had been told that there was not
power enough in the police force to close the
place, but he went to the police captain of the
precinct and told him what going on at
the place. The captain expressed surprise. He
called two detectives and ordered them to have
the place closed. Mr.. Reynolds watched the
place for two weeks and then told the captain
there had been no attempt to close it and that
it was running 1t had been. The captain
again expressed surprise. Again he told the de-
tectives they must have the place closed. Three
weeks later Mr.. Reynolds made a third COM
plant More surprise and another pretended
order to have the place closed. Several weeks
later Mr.. Reynolds talked with the president of
the Police Board about the place. Just at that
time public Indignation had been aroused
against the police methods in the East Side dis
the place closed. There was ne arrest but the