The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
RADOO on POLICE CRAFT.
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On daAllna IN ~ssBesalttee, and has given
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rvus N 1flcs and Of SDTne 81 which
. ssocsadina administration In Mulberry
rsst dis ppfoved.
For instance, the Commissioner ~ the
iIlos Department In sadly undsrpaid. Mr.
cAdoo thinks. 'They pay sif,too q year
, q Supreme Court Justics.' he aays, 'and
"a any M pretend that the Police Com.
isaloner's work ient Ne hard, that his
sponaIbilities are not 81 least ~ great
d that his oflce Ia not just a. importantly
the right man were found TO be Police
,msniasioner no salary could be too high
The Commissioner should not be bothered
IA the financial end Of the department.
thor, Mr.. McAdoo believes. but the Comp
ollsr's ofice should attend to that. The
" surrounds the Commissioned with red
%, which must he cut before any real
Isincss can be done. The Commissioner
on the firing line. is in command and
,Ght not to have Lis time taken up quar-.
ling over the price Of rat traps, coal
uttles. drinking water. soap. gasolene
Id ~caIrrycombs.'
50 much for the financial troubles. There
as tina trouble. too, of holding subordi-
.ta. oGIeers responsible for vioe and crime,
nd Mr.. McAdoo concludes that the Com
Missioner himself must know what Is going
, before he b qualified to bring charges
yainst others. Exactly what the former
commissioner believes as to this Is here
ven IN his own words lest part Of his
X In the somewhat involved passage
light be lost:
He ,Itbe Commissioned must never be
epApdent upon any one man, whatever
IL rank. Given the fact that there is
rimei all of the precincts Of New York
nd even under the best conditions there Ia
lore or leas crime and vice in all parts OF a
seat tdty-suppose then you put all Of the
.,epectons on trial and they In turn charge
liathe captains, and the captains charge
II Of the men with respvnsibility-and
lASitkould be entirely logical-and the
sayoF .oharges the Commissioner with
ssponaibility-which would be equally
would then have the spectacle
! one day of having the whole foIoe. down
the rsmotest doornan in every station,
n.tTial
sTheu; assume that it would be perfectly
,el to just prove that crime and vice,
owever great or small in amount, pre-
allied. in each precinct, there would be no
under such logic hut to convict
man; and IL a policeman permits
rime and vice 20 flourish when he has the
over and means TO suppress and appre-
sud b, he ought not ~ he fined a days
ay--he ought TO be ~sumnaarily dismissed.
his policy would, therefore. result in the
ismissal Of the whole police force
In spite Of the revelations regarding his
scaled Woe squad Mr.. McAdoo maintains
bat It. was a good thing and that it was an
cttye factor In breaking up the protect Il
sMei and women feel that when they pay
heir money they are going to be protected"
Q says. THAT is the reason they were 80
liter against the so-called vice squad at
Headquarters.
so long as IL was in honest hands the
,terest OF the people and the law could not
q sold out by a captain; he was unable to
hnke good. The victims who paid the pre-
mot authorities found themselves raided
nd hailed to court by the Central Office men.
nd. when these raids came thick and fast
staggered the corrupt elements In the
,recincts.
: sOf course this shifted the temptation
precinct to the Headquarters men {,
ne latter had to be frequently changed
nd kept under closest surveillance; but
mong them / must say there were exam
lies of hrmness and marked integrity and
resistance to manifold temptations greater
han I have ever known in the business
World.
, .Of over 300 men tried out there remained
My twenty-five Of the squad proper on
1 Of this year. The rule was to
reed out, as infectious diseases, on the first
Ign of illness"
! Mr., McAdoo says the squad did great
against vice and crime, and that the
,est evidence Of this fact Is that "all crook
In and out OF the police force, hated
/, fought it and helped to abolish it." 81
EITHER you must give a Commissioner a
cal detective bureau or he will have to or
,snize an Office staff on these lines he CON
/ Mr.. McAdoo makes it plain that his per-
'cnal views favor segregation Of vice and
be devotes considerable space to IN ex-
.,lanation of the results obtained by such
) system in Washington. He also believes
hat the average citizen in this city doesn't