The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-14
M ADOO SPOKE UP FOR PCIICE
CIIIC DOCTORS TREATING THE
WRONG PATIENT.
Road TO Reform Runs Not Down TO Nul-
berry street. but IN Mt. Sinai-Arc You
BetIer Than a Policeman Ould
You Accept 100000 BribS?

! Police Commissioner McA doc talked about
the police at crowded mems meeting in
! Calvary Church, at l2ath street and Seventh
! avenue, last evening and had something to
say about certain civic doctors" who
were always trying to diagnose the troubles
Of the department without Offering any
remedies.
The average business man. the Com
missioner taid, unfortunately had only
two sources Of information regarding
conditions one being the newspapers and
the other the political clubs
Are facts in the newspapers fairly pre-
sented?" asked the Commissioner The
newspaper il an impersonal thing, but be-
hind newspaper is an organization and
behind that organization is an individual.
He is just as human as anybody else and
just az liable to be mistaken, as he gets
things secondhand. Politicians are also
apt to take a view which suits their side.
THE police are often made the scape-
goats of the vices of the people themselves
on the whole, they are an honest coura
geous body Of men, considering their walk
of life
There arc black sheep among the police
Why Because they are closes 70 tempta-
ton than any other body of men. One of
my policemen can stand on a corner for
an hour and get his hands full Of s. bills
and you could stand on that corner all day
and get snowballed All the policeman
has 10 do 10 get the money Is TO turn his
back That corruption is not wholesale
Is often to be wondered at
when policeman starts on the down
ward path it is creased for him From
the time he takes the first step he's marked
man and "A very dangerous man in the
community. The other day two detectives
refused a bride from a pawnbroker Of
$4,000. To-day four Of my men brought
into my Office 500 given TO them by dive
keeper Are we not likely TO hear all the
bad r1Imors and none Of the good? Isn't
It the temper Of the town. good hearted
"a it is2 The stream Of heroic conduct
on the part Of policemen passes almost
unnoticed through the Police Depart
ment In no other city is bravery so COM
mon.
Il would be unworthy Of the place |
III if didn't stand up and defend the men.
How many bank clerks would have re-
sisted that $50 600 bride? How many church
men? How many lawyers?
We think things are not all right We
want 10 put il all on the police. New York
is filed with civic doctors who for the news
papers and for themselves are always
telling us how bad we are. They never
tell us of "a remedy. The lid il off, they cry,
Not one shows how to put II on. All say
Of course, take it away from the police.
our morals are bad soak the police.
Now, the police don't make the morals
You've got TO reform yourselves, not the
police The police can enforce fear Of the
law with their clubs, but not respect for the
law That comes from the heart II can
only be bred in places like these. The road
TO reform il not down TO Mulberry street.
il j. up Mount Sinai One OF the disap-
pointing things is the misdrected efforts
Of good men and women 10 reform little
things and TO neglect the big things Stop
the boys playing bali in the street, but
never mind about the amusement places
that are poisoning and rottng their souls.
No conglomeration of laws up at Albany
Is going to remedy matters much. No mat
ter how good the machine, you can't get
away from the personal equation. You
hear a good de- about morals. The town
to-night is as wholesome a town as police
government can make il. There il less
gambling in il than ever before. and the
streets We're never morally cleaner"