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rather to accentuate the salient features of a record which, when closely scrutinized, will disclose conditions in a department of municipal government undreamed of at the time of the inception of the inquiry, and justly challenging the most serious attention of the Legislature. Inasmuch as your committee owed its origin primarily to resolutions passed by various prominent and representative commercial and municipal reform organizations of the city of New York, wherein sweeping and specific charges were made against the police department of said city, it was assumed that specific proof was at hand and would be offered to sustain them. We found, however, at the threshold of our labors, that the charges made were intended to be general in their character and that there was not a scintilla of positive or affirmative evidence to substantiate them. Thus it became the duty of your committee, for itself, through such agencies as were available, to prosecute its inquiry into the affairs of said department, and thereby to itself substantiate by testimony charges which it was assumed would be supported by proof already collected. The true volume of labor accomplished cannot be measured by the testimony actually adduced, and yet that which is presented with this report will indicate the magnitude and gravity of the undertaking. The record shows a total of 10,576 pages of proceedings. This does

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