Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 18, 1961, Image 20

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Newspaper Page Text10 B. ' WEDNESDAY, JANUARY It. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Police lnJor!c Threatens To Become Part-Time Job in TJevv York City ' Editor's note: The. l60s- are ' bringing a potential crisis to bear . on the nalion'l Uw enforcement. I Polk salaries lac behind outside ' Bay. Police atrenflh Un'l keening up with the population explosion. I And police probiemi are mulllply- I er and older and Hie more hectic. I Because New York Is the nation's i biggest city, Its police are reeling ! the crisis first. In a series ol three i dispatches beginning today, a veu eran New or mi.u,. --," -,, problems o( "New York's finest.' i annn t the nroblems o( fMedtold. ' By EDWARD V. MCCARTHY ; New York 4UPII In the na tion', biggest city, police work threatens to become a part time job. i Why? Because policemen xla'im they can't rear a lamily and pay the rent on present police salaries. -'So "moonlighting," the -banned practice of holding a second job, has become a red hot issue in New. York. A ma jor feud rages between the police commissioner and pa trolmen. ' ' Actually, so - called moon lighting is only one symptom o a disease threatening U.S. police forces in many cities. The disease is hardening of. the : arteries, brought on in part at least by low pay, un- :dcr-strenglh and the complex Hies of civilization. Wrath Incurred " 'The term "moonlighter" has come tq mean anyone who works for additional pay at any . employment outside his hours at his regular job. Policemen here have In curred the wrath of Police . Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy by trying to supple ment their annual salary of $6,706 (this includes an an nual $125 uniform allowance) by: taking outside work while off-duty. . ' .Kennedy is flatly against this practice, although In most major cities elsewhere (one of them in which the policemen are paid 'even more than in New York) moonlighting goes on with official blessing from the brass. ! That is the core of the bat tle' between Kennedy and the Patrolmen's Benevolent asso ciation, a non-union organiza tion which represents the rank and file policemen. : 'But the trouble goes a lot deeper. , ; . ; , ; i Takes Job Seriously . ' Stephen Patrick' Kennedy, 83, Is paid $25,000 a year to run an organization of nearly 24,000 men. He Is responsible for overseeing the protection of the lives and property of almost eight million persons packed Into 320 square miles. He takes his job, and him self, seriously,. He is a stern disciplinarian, He has little sympathy for the policeman Who makes mistakes. . i When Kennedy took over as commissioner . In August, 1153, after rising through the ranks from patrolman to In spector, he told his men: "I did not take this job to win a popularity contest." ' Today,- he certainly could not win- any such' contest, Many of the cops vehemently hate , him, but, for oovloun reasons, these men will not be quoted for the record. To close observers, there is some justice to both sides of the argument. ' , ' Kennedy's biggest problem seems (o be that he will, not bend, .even .slightly. He in dulges in mass transfers of sergeants, a sore spot among the sergeants. He does not do it capriciously but to keep down petty rackets, the little "shake downs", which can enrich a dishonest cop. - Every year; Just before Christmas, many of the ser geants find themselves shifted to precincts far removed from the ones in which they have worked all year. '. . , Obviously, in his new patrol area, the sergeant cannot go to a local businessman' and hint - or demand - that he get a "Christmas gift." Inevitably many honest ser geants are swept up in the transfers, and rightly feel their honesty has been ques tioned. Another Sore Spot Ken nedy's insistence oh running his department as a semi-military organization is another sore spot. The PBA feels a patrolman brought up on charges should have some outside arbiter or agency to appeal to. As it stands, Kennedy is judge and jury and his word is final. And, the PBA insists, Ken nedy is just as fallible as any one else. ",.;.' '. ' ' Some olhor. lcss publicized gripes are also near the heart of the matter. . .. . Under previous police com missioners,, a patrolman seek ing a transfer to . a precinct nearer his home, or a change from foot patrol to the softer berth of a radio patrol car, could arrange this through a local political club. Under Kennedy, there Is no such thing. No outside inter ference is permitted, up to and including Kennedy's own boss, Mayor Robert F. Wag ner. Wagner, despite occasional embarrassment over Ken nedy's i n t r a c t ability, con tinues to- back this "tough cop" 100 per cent, Going On For Years The Dractica of "monnliffhl- ing"-although always against department regulations - has been Koing on in the derjart- ment for many years. The situation came to a boiling point recently, how ever; when a patrolman was caught spending more time on an outside job than on his police beat - and doing it while he was officially on "sick leave."- . The average cop on the beat agrees that firing this police man was highly proper - but doesn't agree with its after math. ; i Kennedy promptly an nounced a crack-down on moonlighting and whenever policemen were found to hold outside jobs they were brought up on departmental trial and, if found guilty, sub jected to heavy fines. This crackdown had an odd result. On Tuesday, Oct. 28, in a protest against the crackdown, the city's police staged a slow down in the issuance of traffic summonses. The number of tickets handed out that day dropped by 23 per cent. Ken nedy rallied quickly. He blamed the incident on Patrolman John J. Cassese, president of the PBA, and transferred him from a desk job in headquarters to duty as a traffic officer. Kennedy also checked into the summons activities of patrolmen in radio cars. Where their average was down to Oct. 28, these men found themselves out of the cars and back on foot patrol. The commissioner sent out special investigators from his confidential squad - "shoo flys" the regular police call them-to make sure violations of parking and moving of fenses were not being over looked. Thus began the "ticket war." . . Now under pressure, the police began handing out double the number they had previously. The average motorist screamed in pain as hie nn.knthnnlr was enniyprf. All he had to do to avoid a summons was to commit no violations. The patrolmen put them selves in a bind. , If they re laxed their "war" - it would indicate they never had been doing their job properly. Kennedy unblinkingly said he was pleased to see the num ber of summonses were up -it showed good police work. And, even more to the point, death by auto dropped by some 50 per cent and auto accidents were down. Motor ists were watching their driving. M M I I, IBSSB B I BBB . SSI I BS B B ' BS B I .TJ I I I S -t-J-XW Ji -COT . m T 'MX 1 J J JUB TJ m .B U U 1 -JlTir.. -T.tk'm Taii(yy.llliipVri.rvf I (5) I Hearing Slated For Transient A hearing In district court has been set for 10130 a.m. Thursday for Richard Crane, transient, who is charged with obtaining property by -false pretenses, according to Dis trict Court Judge L. L. Saw yer, ' Crant is charged with Issu ing a bad check for $10 In Medford on Jan, 5. 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