Show THE professional REFORMERS MONUMENT t A great barrier to crime crima prevention Is the reformer he continually asks for more laws in spite of the fact that able and unnecessary legislation has become a great american loke joke re ha cries at one time for stricter punishment for offenders and at another for less punishment cold logic and intelligent analysis of facts mean nothing to him he is ruled by his emotion his monument is the tens of thousands of laws that now burden the statute books it is historical fact that most of the great reform movements have turned upon thein themselves selves and become becom e boomerangs the movement which culminated in the new york anti revolver vei law Ls is an example A few months ago the brooklyn grand jury petitioned for the laws repeal american prisons ars are ted yet many of the worst criminals remain at large practically immen from punishment by virtue of legal technicalities that make justly impotent the law passing mania has been productive of the greatest period of in our history fewer tool fool laws and better enforcement tor cement judicial Judit ial procedure that finds out the facts instead of discussing irrelevant technicalities more efficient better paid and better equist police departments quicker super arrests and convictions of malefactors in this direction lies crime prevention pre venton |