Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1947 — Page 7

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GREEN GARDEN, Ill, Nov. 20 (UP)—George Curtis, 22, will have a better place to do his laundry in the next six months. When the ladies of the Methodist Church gathered -here they discovered. Curtis, in. shorts, calmly washing his clothes. He told Deputy Sheriff Harvey Rosendahl that he was “from Tennessee” and admitted that he'd “picked up a few things around the church and cooked up a meal” Curtis was sentenced to six months for vagrancy.

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members of the Stern gang, Lined up five Arabs from the same family, against a fence toddy and killed three of them. = They shot the Arabs at the same place between Haifa and Tel Aviv where British soldiers last week | killed five Stern gang recruits in ini » Jn

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(Continued From Page One) every new mayor who takes office. There have been many chiefs police to walk into this hlue-car-peted, green-walled room in the northwest corner of the fifst floor of the police station, And until some administration gives the men what they want, there'll’ likely be many more. High point in the amazing shuffie of policemen from job to job in the

Shubaki family and were accused by the Sternists of having informed | the British about their under-|

ground hideout. |

department came with the appointment of former Chief Clifford Beeker, * Fellow officers didn't blame Mr. Beeker for trying to be chief with

|its yearly salary of $6300, plus its {power under the existing political | system. | But most of the clear-thinking {men of the department abhor the {system under which a patrolman {could be jumped out of the ranks

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into the chief's chair. 2 BN FAVORITE SAGA of merit law proponents, the Beeker record at

| City Hall reads:

Dec. 12, 1922, appointed. Jan. 1, 1927, first grade patrolman. | July 12, 1927, detective sergeant, Feb. 1, 1935, reduced to patrolman first grade, Dec. 15, 1036, detective sergeant. March 12, 1940, detective investi-

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Jan. 5, 1943, lieutenant. Jan, 5, 1943 same day), chief of police. Jan. 30, 1045, resigned chief of police, appointed chief of detectives. Jan. 27, 1046, resigned from the department,

” ” » CHIEF SANDERS will be the latest to go when Jan. 1 rolls around. “I don't care where I go—I'll do the best I can ih any job in.the department that they want me to do,” said the Chief, “But for the sake of the department and police efficiency, I would like to see an iron-clad merit system in effect. “There is no question about our 'merit-law. It sounds good. But it doesn’t work out. “One of our men was reduced

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an‘ appeal asking for specific charges but it was never heard by the safety board and finally it was dropped.” ’ . Absence of an efficient, iron-clad system of promotion and demotion as advocated by Chief Sanders leads to disruption of the police department prior to and just after an| election.

¥ . » THERE ARE no patrolmen now| in the police department. All are potential chiefs of police. ¥ Police work is forgotten as men jockey around for the out-going chief's job, | or for higher paid jobs under the|

new chief's appointeeship, Everybody is jockeying for posi-!

tion, asking this politician and that politician to put in the “word.” The men prefef to do their “politicking” in an indirect manner, None so far has directly approached Mayor-elect- Feeney. Chief ‘Sanders’ gold plated badge right now has been cut up into about a dozen pieces. Name after name is thrown into the hopper, - » » ONE HIGH .police officer, who knows he will never get to be chief of police and who for obvious reasons. doesn't want to be quoted direcently, sald: “I have never seen more dissatisfaction and jockeying around for We have only chiefs in our department now.” Asked about the system of having police chiefs appointed by mayors with subsequent promotions and demotions among other members of the department, he sald: “Why fight it?” “There is no use in trying to fight a demotion. The reason, ‘for the good of the department,’ is enough.

safety board or to the courts but where would it get you? “If you did win, they'd just make it miserable for you. They'd give you some ragtag job and you'd be sorry you started it in the first place.” , » » » BUT Indianapolis police officers| have a new deal coming. There may be & gradual reorganization in the next few years, but there is not going to bé a complete upheaval when Mayor-elect Feeney takes office. Of course, he's going to name his chief of police. : But he has some other ideas, too.

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