The evening world., 1911-11-25
No "Take Him Out" Cry
Heard for Man Who Has
Added 900 Men to Patrol.
OFFICE" GONE
Detectives in Every Precinct
List of Delinquents Cut BY
IL Per Cent.

pbeted SIX months OF service In once d,
Thursday. The Police Commissioner
ship Is tho Official rock upon which q
succession OF ambitious men have
wrecked their hopes In the past fifteen
been watched with interes, by the en-
tire community.
Thus far no loud cries OF Take him
OUT have been projected In Commits
s.oner waldo's direction. There Is con-
siderable bitterness against him among
the uniformed men because he estab-
llshed the fixed post and abolished
nearly 1000 fat details. but even the
police officers who feel asgrieved be-
cause OF these measures admit that. IN
general, they are setting a fair deal
at Headquarters.
Commissioner Waldo went into once
with q well defined Idea of how a police
department should be run. That he has
the courage OF his convictions is shown
By the fact that he began to Institute
his rcfofms and Innovations as soon a
he took up his duties. One OF his first
offc!al acts-prompted By Mayor
Gaynor-was the promotion OF a small
army OF policemen who had passed
examinations for inspector, captain,
lieutenant or sergeant and had been re-
fused advancement By Commissioners
Cropsoy because some OF tho men well
up on tho list did no, suit him.
PROMOTIONS MADE M ORDER
OF SENIORITY.
Since Commissioner Waldo took ONCE
all promotions have been made In the
order OF seniority on the Civil Service
eligible lists. In theory this is the prac-
t!ce In all departments. Commissioner
Waldo Is the first heed OF the Police
Department who ever carried It out.
In his former service In the depart
ment as q Deputy Commissioner Mr..
Waldo had become familiar with the
special detail system. by which officers
with = political pull were placed In
positions where they were required to
DO very little work or no work at all.
A. soon az he was sworn ne began to
plan TO do away With this system. and
some students Of police AFFAIRS say It Is
the biggest thing no has do..e,
Close to 100 policemen have been taken
la the courts M from other soft de-
tails and put on active police duty. In
effect the efficiency o: the Police De-
partment as patrol and protective
agency has been Increased almost 10 per
cent, with a small increased cost to
the taxpayers for special court officers
ard clerks 10 take the placer Of the
policemen.
Not only has the abolition Of the
special detail system added nearly 900
men TO the active police force. but II
has been a powerful sency In doing
away with jealousy and politics. Poll
t.c!ans were able to reward policemen
who helped them by getting soft de-
tails for the helpful cops. Now there
are very few details, At least four
men were trying TO get the detail Of
every man that held one. More than
half tho police force was continually
playing politics for soft snaps. Now
the soft snaps have vanished and there
Is no occasion to play that kind OF
politics.
WIPED OUT TIME HoNcaEp
CENTRAL SQUAD. y.
A revolutionary innovation which
Commissioner Waldo worked out as
~""'"' ~'S ee'''"S '"e
power was the wip'ng OUT OK the tme
honorcd ana cumbersome Central ONCE
Squad. The system OF concentrating
several hundred detectives at Head.
cuar..r, every noorn,ry .rd ..,d,r,
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.,aa 1870. uut,es
"eu .A"'"'s' n sh''A'hs' ~ also
opera'eu TOT de'ay IN getting men on
the ground to cover crimes.
Each precinct station house is now
a central once" A lieutenant or act
inn lieutenant Of the Deteotive nur.,u
Il. IN cNs,co a, a.,ou ~, a.,os,,m.a
~ - nrs "'.u. ae.e.''ses
~ ASn p,'@"e. ""o 'e~spons'o.e 'ol
'he'r WORK. ihese men 30 risht out
on roooef'es' murders or other crimes
cInct a. ,oor a. ,hs nsu. -.
station house. I. the case Is too bic
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