Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-19
Comparison of System Their
and In New York Favors
London
METHODS SUPERIOR
Capt. A. w. Piper, Deputy Police Com
Missioner for New York, Says Amer
lean Cities Can Learn Much From
the Police System of London-some
of the Improvements.

London, Feb. 19-Interesting COM
PARSONS of the police system in Lon
don with that in the larger cities OF
the United States are made by Captain
I A. w. Piper, deputy police commissions
er of New York, who is here on tour
Of observation.
That the London method is superior
/ in many ways Captain Piper admits,
and he says the American cities can
learn much from this city. One point
III particular he discovered, and that
is> that the man arrested hare is pun
ished, not released and The officer criti-
cised, as is so often the case in the
United States. This. he holds, adds
much to the efficiency OF the force here
and gives it better moral tone.
Several Improvements in equipment
may result from Captain Piper's OBJ
Iservations In interview yesterday
Captain Piper said:
There is a general idea in New
York that the London police regulate
traffic better than we Go. I am going
to see IL we can improve our service
any. This experience will help me If a
ill approving another deputy commits
|sioner passed at Albany. because then
Il will have practically all outside work.
Il noticed Tuesday that the demean-
or of the people here seems to be more
subservient than that of the Americans.
The average policeman here is more
EVIL and there is Il natural tendency
for one man to be more polite than an
other. This is, perhaps, constitutional.
Our police haven't the time to tell
strangers what time the 1 o'clock train
goes.
THE instructions here are no more
stringent than ours, but when a police
man makes an arrest here for dis
obedience of the rules Of the road the
magistrate invariably holds and pun
ishes the person arrested, While nine
times out of ten when We make an ar
rest for this reason ,ke magistrate
turns the man loose without fining him
and cusses the policeman for bringing
him into court. l think that it is the
magistrates lack of appreciation of the
policeman's duties that causes most of
the trouble in New York.
Where we need reform is in the
buiest centers. In these places in Lon
don the traffic moves 25 Per cent quick
er than ours. This is owing TO the
regulations that between 10 in the
morning and 6 in the evening carriers
are not allowed TO back UP to the side
walk or to deliver coal. casks or heavy
freight which blocks 81: eets. This is
what we have got to come to In New
York, and 1t seems to me that the
change will have to be radical. The
storekeepers will have TO open earlier
in the morning or keep open later at
night to get their goods handled.
In the London warehouse district
there are little intersecting alleys and
courts between the main thoroughfares
where heavy freight can be handled
without interfering with the general
traffic. New York wastes all the space
equivalent to these alleys Look out of
the windows of our big stores and what
do we see? A lot of waste spaces strewn
with empty packing cases and other
litter Why should not the storekeep-
ers be compelled to utilize this space
for building back entrances, the same
as in London?
There are one or two minor things
we do not pay sufficient attention to.
The police here all carry capes Ours
constantly are reported off their posts
and always say they hal to go to get a
cape or something we have not pro-
vided. Further, at night the police here
al carry bulls-eye lanterns l think
this would be an excellent thing for our
police for the proper inspection of
doors and locks"