NEW YORK POLICE SCANDALS

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 15

NEW YORK POLICE SCANDALS

BURGLARIES ARRANGED FOR PUR- ' ,'"". POSES' OF PROMOTION. ""■'"• ■The aldermanio inquiry into the police conditions in' New York, 1 resulting from the. murder of tho gambler Rosenthal, keeps, unfolding discreditable, revelations, or at least allegations/ needing strong rebutting evidence to.removo tho sinister aspect they give of the conduct of.the force. Tho latest compromising testimony suggests that.riot only have some police officers encouraged crime by inciting its commission, but that they have also helped themselves to loot taken from -captured burglars,' and have even, gathered bc-oty from burglar-raided houses. Benjamin Levy, a typical product of tho New York jindor-world, swore that the De l puty. Commissioner of the.Police, Mr. Dougherty, second in. rank to tho chief, had prompted him to incite three crooks to commit a burgiai-y, that he was promised i£2s, that he pulled off the job, and that the. men uro now'in gaol. ■.-'.- Ho explained that ho opened tho door of the warehousa marked i'or the robbery, "when tho police with whom he was in league had smashed it in order to make it appear.that it had been forced open/and that tho policomou detailed to be on hand to capture tho burglars had helped themselves to tho booty. Lovy wound up this explanation by saying: "Any time, tho polico wanted a burglary they. told", me to go and got a burglar, and I got one for them. Evory time thoy wanted promo-' tion ■ th n y instigated a burglary and got mo to start it.'' Tho robbery in question was that of a warehouse, from .which ostrich feathers, valued at .£ISOO, were stolen, and for which four mon. .were convicted. t