A remarkable account of the revolution in the New York
police is given in Thursday's Times. General Greene, the present. Commissioner, only took office on New Year's Day, but he at once signalised his appointment by a number of sweeping reforms. To begin with, he insisted that the inspectors should really inspect and reside within the district for which they were responsible; he has refused to allow officers against whom charges were pending to continue in the exercise of their functions; he has struck hard at black- mailing and extortion, and forbidden the practice by which probationers and inferiors made presents to their superiors. The drastic methods of the new regime are illustrated by the fact that in the first quarter of the present year twenty-six members of the force, including one inspector and four captains, have been dismissed, seven hundred and thirty-six have been fined, and a hundred and twenty-seven reprimanded. But perhaps the most striking testimony to General Greene's exertions is the chagrin of Tammany, and the admission of his opponents that his zeal has infected the force itself.
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