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prentlceshlp In the uniformed ranks.
We must give the chief of the depart
ment the power to hire the best men
he can get wherever and however he
can get them. The distinction be
tween the detective squad and the
routine branches of our police must
never be dismissed.
Again, the members of the detective
forces must have a fundamental legal
knowledge. The successful detective
must know enough of law and evi
dence to prepare his testimony in a
form that will" stand cross-examination.
He must know facts from a
legal angle, and how to present them.
In many of our large cities the prose
cuting attorney's office now feels it
necessary to do a largo amount of de
tective work before it will undertake
a trial work which is not properly
in its province and which should have
been done by the police before the
case ever reached its hands.
yHIJ public hears a good deal of de-
layed trials, of long-drawn-out con
tinuances, of weary adjournments for
new evidence, and blames the ma
chinery of the courts and a super
abundance of legal technicalities. As
a matter of fact, it is not too much
legal knowledge in our courts but not
enough legal knowledge in our de
tectives that is often the root of the
evil.
A business-managed police depart
ment should have an advertising ap
propriation. It should have the
means, for Instance, to get out five
thousand or ten thousand post-cards
at a half day's notice, with the photo
graph and description of the fugi
tive wanted. It should be empowered
to print hand-bills and posters, with
the conspicuous data of escaped
criminals. Displayed in public places
railroad stations, post-offices, store
windows these should be an In
estimable aid to the machinery of
Justice. A case by way of illustration:
Two or three years ago, a pecul
iarly atrocious double murder and
robbery were committed In the city
of Washington. Handbills and post
cards, giving a description of the man
Buspected of the crime, were sent
broadcast through the country. Three
months later, a poster in a Texas
postoffice lobby caught the eye of a
lounging farmer, who recognized the
description as that of a new "hand"
working In his neighborhood. The
suspect was taken into custody, sent
back to Washington, tried and con
victed.
Reverting to the greater efficiency
of the police department as an organ
lzation and the specific evils to be
charged against it, we must face the
fact that reform is not entirely a
question of methods and personnel.
Periodically the country Is swept by
a police-graft expose. We are told
that our police system has degener
ated Into an organization of money
leeches, preying on the denizens of
the underworld, and wo are given
startling facts in support of the
charges. It Is not the purpose of this
article to deal with the question of
graft in public office. Certain phases
of the so-called graft epidemic, how
ever, as related to our police system,
it seems to me are not given their
proper significance. Wo are too prono
to deal with results rather than with
causes. The probe of our reform may
be sincere enough but it does not go
deep enough.
For instance, the problem of the
Tenderloin. It Is generally admitted,
I believe, that the most general
phases of police-corruption nro traced
to two conditions; illegal saloon
activities, and' the trade of fallen
women. As a matter of fact, neither
of these evils should bo a police prob
lem. The question of their control or
lack of control is not properly a de
tall of police administration.
Graft-campaigns are excellent, If
only as public alarm clocks. Most of
our graft cruBodes, however, merely
change the recipients of the graft.
The big question of the graft Itself
is left where it was. And wun, at
least two of the main roots of public
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