a man who should conduct the police business of the city with
more regard for the liberties of the inhabitants thereof. The
judge who had started the rumpus expressed himself as very
much pleased and declared that now at last a new era had
dawned wherein the government was to be administered with a
due regard for law.

Now, curiously enough, although the judge had demanded the
removal of the commissioner on the ground that he had violated
the law and been guilty of tyrannous and despotic conduct, the
mayor had ousted him not for pursuing an illegal course in
arresting and "mugging" a presumptively innocent man (for
illegal it most undoubtedly was), but for inefficiency and
maladministration in his department.

Said the mayor in his written opinion:


"After thinking over this matter with the greatest care, I
am led to the conclusion that as mayor of the city of New
York I should not order the police to stop taking photographs
of people arrested and accused of crime or who have been
indicted by grand juries. That grave injustice may occur
the Duffy case has demonstrated, but I feel that it is not
the taking of the photograph that has given cause to the
injustice, but the inefficiency and maladministration of
the police department, etc."

In other words, the mayor set the seal of his official
approval upon the very practice which caused the injustice to