City Government in the United States With a Chapter On the Greater New York Ch
City Government in the United States With a Chapter On the Greater New York Ch
Alfred R Alfred Ronald Conkling
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85). The ordinances of Paris are strict, and the traveler rarely sees goods on the sidewalk. In one narrow 76 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. street I saw two bags of charcoal on the sidewalk. I asked a policeman if that was not a violation of the city ordinance, and he replied : " Yes, sir ; but if the po- lice enforced all ordinances strictly, one could not walk in the streets of Paris. " There is in New York (as in other large cities) a police pension fund, which is made up of fines and fees paid for... licenses to sell liquor. The excise fees amount to $300, 000 annually. The New York law provides also that after twenty years of service a policeman may be retired on half pay, whether disabled or not. Po- licemen may serve longer, but when the force is ruled by a partisan board the commissioners may compel a meritorious officer to retire in order to make room for one of their favorites. Nearly every year bills are introduced in the Legis- lature to increase the pay of the police, and such a bill became a law in 1894.
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