Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Criminals Controlling New York. [ARTICLE]

Cr iminals Controlling New York.

Police Commissioner Bingham in his annual report has startled New York by the bald assertion that the city “ia in the hands of criminal*" and that many of the magistrates and higher judges are in league with politicians to protect certain offenders known to the system. He asks bow it is possible for the police to be free from political influence when the whole election' machinery ia placed in their hands. Lawfareaking, he continues, ia the easiest business now conducted in New York.