The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-04
REDUCES INSPECTOR HUSSEY
CROPSEY ALSO SHIFTS TEN
POLICE CAPTAINS.

Four Acting Captains Put Back to Desk |
stead Of 10 inspectors Now and Won't |
Need 10 Make New Captains Soon. |
Police Commissioner Cropsey gave the
Police Department another hard jolt
yesterday. He issued an order demoting
ono inspector. shifting ten captains.
sending four lieutenants who have been
acting captains back to desk duty and
doing away with one inspection district.
the Sixth, commonly known as the Harlem
district. which is hereafter to he part
Of tho Seventh or Bronx district.
James f. Hussey. who has had many
ups and downs since he first became an
inspector. is the man who loses his in
spectorship He now becomes Capt.
Hussey again and is sent to take command
Of the Sheepshead Bay station. He was
in command of the Harlem district which
is abolished and his headquarters were at
the West l25th street station. Inspector
John J Murtha. who is in charge of The
Bronx. succeeds to command in Hussey's
baiiwick
The transfers Of captains are a. follows:
William +. fcnnely goes from Glendale
Cullen from Classon avenue to Richmond
Hill John Barnes from Richmond Hill
to Glendale. Christian Reimels from
College Point to Vernon avenue. Brooklyn:
Donald Grant. who also used to be an
inspector. goes from New Dorp to Fourth
| avenue. Brooklyn: Patrick Murphy goes
from Tottenville to Flushing, John Dulfer
from Sheepshead Bay TO Butler street.
Brooklyn; George A. Alonclc from Flush
ing to Jamaica. Thomas f. Darcy from
Whitestone 10 Fort Hamilton and Charles
| C. Wendell from Jamaica to Bushwic.l
avenue, Wendell was recently fined five
days pay for writing letter Of recon-
mendation for friend on poice II dt ionery.
The lieutenants who are transferred
from acting captaincies to desk duty
are: Richard Enright. who is known as
h. -Chauncey Depew of the Depart
mcn,." and who is head OF the Police
| Lieutenants' Association, relinquishes
| command Of the Vernon avenue station
and goes TO do desk duty at Gates avenue;
| A. W. Thor. who is close to the top of the
list of lieutenants eligible for captaincies
goes from Fourth avenue to Ralph ave-
nue.; John j. Savage goes from Butler
| street TO Fourth avenue and Joseph OCon-
nor goes from Far Rockaway to Snyder
avenue. Flatbush.
With these changes all precincts that
are important enough are supplied with
captains. Only the traffic squads. the
bridge precincts and some few of the
outlying precincts continue in charge OF
lieutenant, acting n captains These
precincts are City Island, whore there
are only fifteen policemen: New Dorp
with thirteen men. Far Rockaway with
twenty seven patrolmen, COLLEGE Point
with twenty-onc men. and Whitostone
with a force OF fourteen men These re-
mole precincts We're formerly regarded
as places of correction for delinquent
| captains Commissioner Cropsey thinks
that the lieutenants are entirely fitted To
command such stations and it looks as if
III the future the captains who fall into
disfavor will have to go to some precinct
where they will have to hustle rather
than TO "a place OF meditati With this
change in policy toward these suburban
precincts goes change in the title of the
commanding officer. The title acting
captain is abolished and the men in
. .,l, h.nrafnrth to. h.,
"ileutenants in command"
The significance Of this last shift lies
in the fact that there is now no need for
any more captains There are fifteen
vacancies in the list of captains. but
with this new arrangement there is nc
necessity for filling them. That of course
blocks the way of the lieutenants on the
eligible list to immediate promotion. And
II was for this very purpose. il is said by
those in position to know. that Com.
missioner Cropsey made this change.
According TO the same authority q
former Police Commissioner has recently
given Commissioner Cropsey his opinion
Of the lieutenants at the top Of the eligible
list And the Commissioner is said lC
have declared that he would resign his
commissionership before he would make
appointments right down the eligible list
Yesterdays order was only another steI
in the process Of Capitalization that ha,
been going on at Police Headquarter'
ever since Mayor Gaynor took office. Tn,
great difficulty that the vaTious Polic'
Comm issioners have experienced wa
that of making their INSPECTORS obey
; The Commissioners could issue orders bu
could not enforce them. The INSPECTOR
r were powerful enough TO balk the Com
missoners' wishes. Commissioner Bing
, hams bill providing for she reduction
of police officials made possible the NOV
that Commissioner Cropsey il now max
, ing. When he found that he could no
get obedience from his inspectors h
/ went about taking away their power
4 When he removed their plain clothe
men he took away larg" part Of thei
, work. Since the inspectors have ha,
i less work to do the commissioner ha
I been cutting down the number of inspec
/ tors and making one man do two men
work. lust as is done at this ime by addin
the Sixth district To the Seventh.
In this way the number of inspector
has been reduced in one year from nine
T teen to twelve. This reduction in tn
number Of inspectors added of cours
to the number of captains, thus maxim